Cañon City record., 1909-12-23

next spring, or perchance 1t may be
the richly embroidered tea cloth that
you must -grudgingly-to the
first one of the next June brides. But
feast your eyes to your fill on all
these carved wooden and gold orna-
ments. wicker work, embroideries,
jade and silver, not mentioning the
Canton china; for, as the unsavory
odors grow more noticeable you may
decide to pass this way only once.
While rambling around you will
stumble on the queer old Japanese
brass-worker, who sits on the floor of
his little shop and works with the
most primitive of tools. l am sure
your heart can not be satisfied until
sketches and much pigeon English,
you have made him understand just
what you want in the way of a hand
wrought brass jug, pair of candle
sticks or a quaint jar that you have
wanted for years to brighten up that
dark corner in the library hall.
Then for a complete change and
new air for the lungs-the beach. Oh.
Eden, Eden, the beach at Waikiki.
The sand is soft. and warm and white.
The ocean, a shaded blue sweep of the
horizon. and the surf booms in at your
feet necessarily. Wee. brown native
babies frolic all day long in the wa
ter's edge as happy as the brilliant
little fishes that come and go in great
schools around their chubby fat legs.
And the sunset alone is worth all the
good-byes said at home. 1t is worth
yes. fully-the trip to Honolulu. 1t
seems ball OF fire, swinging just
above the horizon. with bed of blue
and white. violet and pink. flower
clouds as a back ground in a net OF
molten gold.
II you tire of the beach. it may be
enough for you to watch the daily
procession of different nationalities
that pass or stop at your door. In the
early morning the Chinese boy comes
with his great baskets of crisp, fresh
vegetables. which he carries balanced
on a pole across his patient should
ers; or should you have learned to
eat poi. he will bring you small kes
at little cost. The Portuguese iceman
drifts in. polite and gracious. and al
ways strictly business" The old.
native peddlers will greet you with an
Aloha" and sell you IL they can. their
wonderfully woven mats and hats.
shells. leis, miniature calabashes OF
polished wood and tava cloths. made
Of wood fiber beaten to a pulp and
dyed with strange figures and SYM
bols. The native women go by in
groups, barefootsd. but brave in their
bright "holikusr with a train.-oh.
yes. always a train; and sometimes
a crepe of veil II the occasion permits.
After exhausting the city, go to the
country. The little oil-burning en-
gine will pun away and as you lay
back on the cool. straw seats the
breeze from the sea will freshsn and
invigorate you. You will travel past
fields of green, waving rice. carefully
tended by Chinese coolies. up to their
knees in water. plodding slowly along
behind the caribou or watetr OK
There will be duck farms. with doz-
ems of graybronze ducks afloat on the
water, and small villages tucked very
snugly under the tall cocoanut palms.
There will be miles OF green. climb
ing. bloom-laden vines. pink and
white oleanders that look like trees.
date palfms heavy with the cluSter of
ripening fruit. summer skies, riotous
vegetation, fields of pineapples that
smell to heaven" and miles and miles
of sugar cane that looks like green.
heaving sea- The plumy palm-top
will fiirt with the dancing blue waves
and the sunshine-Goi's greatest gifs
will make song in your heart all
day.
When you come at night, even that
little gray hair that will persist In
making itself so forward. viii creep
back abashed and ashamed, wrinkles
will be forever banished. and there
will be nothing but peace. peace. peace
4 your heart. for into your life will
have erept that dolce far nients"
germ (contagious on landing) and
am sure, even you. Dear Tired Hearts.
after few days OF this will each
night wrap the drspery OF your couch
around you and lie down TO pleasant
dreams G.E.y.H.C.
Worry has spoiled a good many 9TH