The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1910-12-25

1t was all SO green and such a luxuriant
growth everywhere. But do YOU know
that the minute | got into the real
East, as 1t is called, | had a dreadful
attack Of homesickness. | lOnged TO
De nome, under some cOcoanut tree in
the comfortable loose dress of our
country and especially to see brown
faces and TO hear the Hawaiian tongue
All things haole seemed to me vain
and Improbable and the Gland where
my fathers died attracted me not at
all. For a short time | actually hated
It; the trains, the hurry, the scnrry,
the sea of white faces, the everlasting
gong somewhere, taking gsomething-to-
go somewhere, ali of it seemed so use
less and such lot of trouble for moth
ing. Happily | recovered. but | can
not yet say | like il in the East
After Philadelphia, Atlantic City.
That certainty is a product of civiliza-
ton, the long boardwalk and its inces-
SAINT stream of walkers ana the inevit,
able rolled chairs. | should call it The
City of the Grand Parade. We watch
sed them, at the most fashionable hours
for swimming, 90 in bathing. The ma
iority seemed to battle on the sand. /
said on not in. There were but few
Misunderstanding it s not fashionable
to swim. l can't tell you how disap-
pointed | was in the physiques of all
those men and women I saw in bathing
suits on that beach You know I am
a great admirer of the American type
of beautv-and think the average per
son i'll this country well llbuilt-but 7
was doomed to disappointment on that
Dnrba how
were lust parading and were not filed
with the real swimming spirit that |
found them unbeautiful. To want to
go to the seashOre and to be doomed
to month in Atlantic City would be
terrible punishment. but ! acknowl-
edge it is not the fault of nature but
of the people themselves
Then New York. / suppose If one
were there long enough one would get
New York mad, as all its inhabitants
seem to be. but in June, when the heat
never stops for one instant, it is for
lorn place Please do not think me un-
appreciarive of the wonderful build
ings. the subway. the elevated roads
and all the things that 90 to make New
York, but approaching is not always
liking. A ride in the subway in June
is a fOTeGaSIe OF lut 1UltIHo. L 1tIb
like some kind of a bug or worm that
burrows into the ground when | first
rode in the subway. 1t seems to me
the only difference between living in
small place and big city is this: You
90 straight home. or even round a cor |
ner to get to that place you call home, !
in the one instance, while in the other |
YOU burrow underground and ride a
Ia ln lnrSh
then run up some steep stairs and catch
a train flying through the air, and after
a certain distance YOU get off the train. !
walk down a long flight of stairs, and |
if YOU are fortunate another little walk |
on the ground viii get YOU home. I |
wonder if after all that you can tell |
what / am driving at 1t is this-peo-
pie do exactly the same thing every
where: eat. sleep. work and have a !
little recreation. In a small place these ,
things are done easily, while in a large !
place YOU have to go through all the
maneuvers | have mentioned before you
can do them.
Niagara Falls was more wonderful. :
more beautiful more awful then I had
ever conceived it. ! should like to see
them again. but ! shall never lose the
picture of that foaming, seething mass
Of water. To see the United States
and like it. should say go to the cities
last and over the country itself first.
You viii laugh when | tell YOU what
portion of the country attracted me
most | do not suppose | would like
to live there. but there is a call from
that big. barren Wyoming country that
love. Perhaps it the spirit Of some
ancestor who found the lavaheds of
Puma the lovelest place. in all the uni
verse.