The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-10

Kunst, a wealthy German who has
completely obliterated the last essence
/ of the authors shrine, and who has
transformed the rambling house into a
! palatial mountain home, surrounded
| by orderly plantations and beautiful
gardens, which are generously open
to those visitors who may desire to
inspect the luxurious place.
But if you have known and loved
Vailima as it was you may perhaps not
care to have your memory blurred,
and will undoubtedly instead, accept
with relief pressing invitation to be
house guest at Papauta for week,
whose hostess or rather principal, has
! sent you a note by a trim Samoan boy.
Papauta is the estate belonging to
the branch of the London Mission So
ciety, and whose well regulated and
perfectly conducted girls school is I'M
} der the able supervision of Miss
Schultz at whose command the servant
has brought rig for you, and with
the verbal assurance from whom, in
broken English that you are expected
to remain till your island steamer ar
rives from Sydney, via Fiji, you bun
die your belongings in the trap and
start off
The pony is a well fed and well
cared for little animal whose robust
appearance however, is not in any
wise improved by a harness tied in
parts by white Irvine and pieces of
rope, and the rig rattles pitiably as he
trots along, blissfully unconscious of
his ludicrous caravan.
Your companion, dressed for the oc-
casion in a thin sleeveless undershirt,
and dark blue print lava
lava, on which you cannot
help noticing are big white
stars as pattern, explains to you as
he is able, and not without some
difficulty on your part to translate the
mystic sentences, the history of each
little home you pass, and points with
his whip into a familiar grove through
which the dull roaring of water is
heard, and tells you it is an excellent
place to swim.
He seems pleased to learn that you
have already explored the bathing
stream and assures you that one very
similar and perhaps even prettier runs
through the grounds of Papauta.
After slow drive of about an hour,
the greater part of which is uphill,
| along a hard, smooth, white lime and
coral road overhung by delightful
shade trees, and passing, en- route, any
number of neat homes with sloping
trim lawns, gravel walks and iron
fences belonging to the German resi-
dents of Apia, the boy turns to the
right and entering a big gate which
has been swung open, drives briskly
along a shady avenue to the mission
house, a two-storied building which
stands in the midst of tempting lawns
dotted by shTubbery and trees.
Miss Schultz has just returned from
her morning ride, and alighting from
her tall mount she approaches you
with arms extended in so hospitable a
welcome, as to entirely divert you
from her very amusing green cloth
habit and hat with a ridiculous chicken
feather at the side.
you are welcome, my friend" she
cries, land | hope you are not too
tired from your drive"
She herself takes you to your room
on the top floor, plainly furnished but
very comfortable, and overlooking part
of the lawn and the stream which
eddies along over the stones and boul-
ders between clumps of trees border
ing its edges, and you have barely