The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-08

HONOLULU, IA. l., Nov l2-rhe
ourist season iu Hawaii is from De
embcr TO May This is a good illus
ration of the relatively of terrestrial
things. for that period is. i'm fact, to
my taste, the least perfect so to speak,
oft the tweIve-month, and is establish
ed as the season" solely because it Is
the time of year when northern peO-
pie wish to get away from home. Thus
f us a choice of worsts the traveller
makes and the thing that has been
proved experimentally by the public is
that Hawaii's worst is far better than
the worst on the mainland. 1t is not
a bad basis, either. for a comparison
of bests is less convincing Climate
has never in any land or any zone
achieved aything more beautiful or
more delightful than a New England
autumn, and if Chicago were kept
clean of dust and soft-coal smoke its
summer climate, anywhere near the
lake. need have no fear to try con-
illusions with any place on earth.
l am not growing weary of the ISL
ands They are as near perfection,
taking everything into account, as
anything mundane can be. But some
thing inside of me, when nothing here
but the almanac shows it to be Octo-
Der. is calling loudly for the autumn
hues of home And very gladly would
| swap today my swim where the glo-
rious white, warm surf pounds the
coral, for a dip Of shOd feet into a car
pet of rustling brown, red and yellow
leaves.
1t is not quite true that only the cal
endar shows that this IS the fall Of the
year The nights are a little cooler
than they were, and even in the day
white suits are not so numerous as
they we're But | am told that the
change to light wool garments by the
| men is one Of tie fruits Of annexation
and the increased enterprise Of mer-
chant tailors. The temperature yes
! terday at o'clock and noon and 8 p.
m. was 90 degrees, so degrees IA de-
grees. Down at the beach little chill
| dren are wallowing in the sand and
the treble of happy voices of school
girls can be heard above the roaring
of the surf. Last night | went to sleep
with a sheet over me. A little after
midnight l drew up the blanket ana
toward morning the sheetiron spread
and was not too warm.
Although the mountain sides are
greener now than in the summer, the
NIGHTS cooler and the days still warm
enough to sit around in ones paJamas
if he has the desire, the time and the
! garments. and although February
1 March and April are the months the
Old residents brag Of, there is very
little difference in the seasons except
to the eye.
insert here an official table OF
thermometer readings for last year
and it is statistically true that the
reading for a given day shows almost
no variation from year to year. Inc
+ennerature morning, noon and nlsh'
was for March 81, 70, 81, "A; June 81
Is. IS. 7G; Sept. 80, 6S, S4, "a; Dec 81
&C, 70, &c. ,.o,.
The main point is that it is alWay'
delightful in these eight little prosce
Mum boxes of the Pacific theaIer' eA
cent when. for an hour or a day oc
casionally, the south wind blows IN
natives call it the sick wind IN
cause of it's depressing effect is uneX
n1ained. so far as l know. 1t is not To-
hot nor too fast and it never continue
long at time But before one notice
that the wind has changed to the souI
| he finds his power cut off and that Il
doesn't care a denarius whether ne
going or coming. Then he simply lie
to until the trade wind rises and nj
spirits with it.
But from the eye viewpoint Jun
and July are the regal sisters OF Tn
!, tuyaIve months. In them the ponclan
9 regia is in bloom, a gorgeous ire
sbaDed like those ported azaleas ar IN
eorists' at home at Easter, and a
D thick with crimson bloom, but the slz
! of New England elms. This is IN
, breadfruit season. This fruit look
like those Usage oranges that grow o
the hedges of home-great gree
globes packed with food value. 1t
baked like a yam, behaves like HUI
G bard squash at table and tastes IKE
harbor shop smells.
Guavas grow wild. The bushes al
the island chapparal. They are every
where and guava jelly enough to SUI
ply the world could be made from TN
fruit that drops from the underbrus
and goes to waste
The universal breakfast fruit hel
J, is the papaia, muskmelon that grow
r, on tree; not on the bough of tre'
;. but on the trunk, It is ready for BUS
n ness every day in the year. GROWING
s it appears to be poor relation OF th
| conoonut Gathered il looks like