The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-05

.You cannot escape liking the
climate, y Cudworth said, in reply to
my panegyric on the Kona coast. 81
was young fellow, just out of college,
when / came here eighteen years ago.
I never went back, except, Of course,
TO visit. And I warn you, if you have
some spot dear to you on earth, not to
linger here TOO long, else you will find
this dearer. y
We had finished dinner. which had
been served on the big Lanai, the one
with a northerly exposure, though ex-
posnre is indeed a misnomer in so de-
lectahle climate.
The candles had been put out. and
slim, Whitehead japanese slipped like
a ghost through the silvery moonlight,
presented US with cigars, and faded
away into the darkness of the bunga-
low. / looked through screen Of
banana and lehua trees, and down across
the guava scrub to the quiet sea q
thousand feet beneath. For a week,
ever since I had landed from the tiny
eoasting steamer, / had been stopping
with Cudworth, and during that time
no wind had ruffled that unvexed sea.
True, there had been breezes, but they
were the gentlest zephyrs that ever
blew through summer isles. They were
not winds; they were sighs-long,
ba1mv signs of world at rest.
!" . lotus land, / said.
g Where each day is like every day,
and every day is a paradise of days.
he answered. Nothing ever happens.
1t is not toe hot. 1t is not too cold.
1t is always just right. Have you noticed
how the land and the sea breathe turn
and turn about9''
Indeed / had noticed that delicious,
yavthmic, interminged breathing. Each
ruraing / had watched the sea7breeze
begin at the shore and slowly extend
seward as it blew the mildest. softest
Whit of ozone to the land. 1t played
over the sea, just family darkening its
surface, with here and there and every
where long lanes of calm, shifting,
changing, drifting, according to the
eaprieious kisses of the breeze. And
each evening / had watched the sea-
breath die away to heavenly calm, and
heard the land-breath softly make its
way through the coffee trees and mon
. Reypods.
1t is a land of perpetual calm,''
said "Does it ever blow here2-ever
really blow7 You know what / mean.
Cndworth shook his head and pointed
eastward
'sHow can it blow, with barrier
like that to stop itg'
Far above lowered the huge bulks
of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, seem
ing to blot out half the starry sky.
Two miles and half above our heads
they reared their own heads, white with
snow that the tropie sun had failed to
melt.
"Thirty miles away, right now. III
wager, it is blowing forty miles an
hour. -
] smiled incredulously
Cudworth stepped to the lanai tele
phone. He called up, in succession
Waimea, Kohala, and Hamakua
Snatches of his conversation told me
that the wind was blowing: Grip
snorting and back-jumping, eh7
How longs Only a weeks
Hello, Abe, is that yous
Yes, yes. You viii plant cor
fee on the Hamakua coast.
Hang your ind-breaksi You shout,
see my trees. -
Blowing a gale,'' he said to me
turning from hanging up the receiver
80 always have to joke Abe on his cot
fee. Ee has FIVE hundred acres. an,
he s done marvels in wind breaking
but how he keeps the roots in tn
ground is beyond me. Blows 1t Away
blows on the Hamakua side Kohal
reports schooner under double reef
beating ND the channel between Hawai-
and Maui, and making heavy weathe
of it,
1t is hard to realize y I said. lame
~ fDoesn' t a little Whit of it eve
eddy around somehow, and get dow
here.''
Not a Whit Our land-breeze
j absolutely of no kin, for it begins thi
q SIDE OF Mauna Kea and Mauna I.o;
s on see, the land radiates its hea
quicker than the sea, and so, at nigh