The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-17
THE AMERICAN DIARY
OF A JAPANESE GIRL
(From the Sunday Hawaii shinpo)

Why can l not choose one to hire
from among the bully" young men
lettering around a cigar stand?
Shiny uncle was going out in a
black frock-coat and tea-coloured
trousers. l insisted that his coat and
trousers didn't match.
How can man be so ridiculous?
l declared that it was as poor taste
as for a darkey to wear a red ribbon
in her smoky hair.
Uncle surrendered.
He said, "Hei, hei, he'll"
Goo boy!
He dismissed the great tea-colour.
6th-We had a shower.
The city dipped in a bath.
The pedestrians threw their vague
ly delicate shadows on the pave
ments. The ladies voluntarily per-
mitted the gentlemen to review their
legs. If were in command, l would
not permit the ladies to raise an UNI
Lrella under the para para" of a
shower. Their fastening figures are
so fascinating
The shower stopped. The pavements
were CLOSED like looking glass.
The windows facing the sun scattered
their sparkling laughter.
How beautiful!
1 am perfectly delighted by this
city.
One thing that disappoints me,
however, is that Frisco is eterndlly
sDowless.
Without snow the year is incom-
plete, like a departure without sdyo.
nara.
Dear snow! o Yuki San!
Many Winters ago modelled a doll
OF snow, which was supposed to pc a
gentleman.
How proud 1 used to be when
stamped the first mark with my high
ashida on the white ground before
anyone else
1 wonder how Santa Claus will ar-
ray himself to call on this town.
His fur coat is not appropriate at
all.
7th-Why didn't l come to Ameri-
key earlier--in the Summer season?
was staring sadly at my purple
parasol against the wall by my dress
er.
l have no chance to show it.
l have often been told that 1 look
so beautiful under it.
Shiny darling o Ada came in a
carriage. Her two-horsed carriage
was like'that of our Japanese premier.
She is the daughter of a banker.
The sun shone in yellow.
Ada's complexion added a brillian-
cy. l was shocked, fearing that l
looked awfully brown.
Ada said that l was perfectly love.
ly." Can l trust a woman's eulogy?
/ myself often use flattery.
A jewel and face-powder were not
the only things, 1 said, essential to
woman.
We drove to the Golden Gaze Park
and then to the Cliff House.
What a triumphant sound the hoofs
of the bay horses struck! 1 fancied
the horses were a poet, they were
rhyming.
l don't like the automobile.
Ada was sweet as could be.
Tell ME your honorable love
story!" she chartered.
did only brush.
l hadn't the courage to burst my
secrecy.
| l loved once truly.
1t was an innocent love as from q
fairy book.
If true love could be realized!
| In the park / noticed a lady who
scissored the don't touch" flowers
and stepped away with a sanity air
The comical fancy came to me thai
she was the mother of a policeman
guardian against intruders.
We found ourselves in the japanese
tea garden.
A tiny musume in wooden clogs
brought us an honorable tea ant
o'senbe.
The grounds were an imitation o
of Japanese landscape gardening.
Homesickness ran through my fibre
The decorative bridge, a stork b!
the brook, and the dwarf plants hint
ed to me of my home garden.
A sudden vibration OF 5hamisen wa
flung from the Japanese cottage clos
by.
"Tenu, tenu! Tenu, tsunn sham
Who was the player?
When l sat myself by the ocean o.
the beach I found some packages @
peanuts right before me.
The beautiful Ada began to sna
r them.
TAFT TO GO TO HEAVEN.