The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-06-17
Little, but Oh, My!"

Elected picture is a faithful copy of
| the great out-of doors, in perfect and
harmonious proportions. SO the Japa
nese gardens and their other decorative
| works, however small they NAV be- are
wrought to scale. They are not little
thlngs-they are the models of great
things. We sat one afternoon in the
| house of friend at a ceremonial tea.
The pleasant room looked out upon the
garden 1t was a city home and the
garden was about forty feet square. 1t
contained a winding stream in minia-
ture, emptylng into a lakelet. so beau
tlful IN its proportions, with tinv bavs
and Juttlng promontories. that the gold
fish swimming in the clear water might
have been dolphins seen through a re-
i versed ieldglass. There was great
bronze Bdddha: bronzes Of heroes and
gods; a little cascade in the ''river'
that tinkled like a dream cataract in
fairyland. Three or four little old
trees. not dwarfs. but dwarfed, mavbe
forty or fifty years old, whose grand
sires out in the big out-of- door noun
talns lowered up like living giants with
outreaching arms Of greenery. fit into
the oapy landscape win the gnafled
ana stately grandeur OF thelr ancestry.
counted 1he FEATURES OF that garden
Inc sIe"' number Oh items contained III
the little space was amazing. Yet the
miniature landscape was not at all
I Ie ueu
II Snouiu ny 10 ItPIoouce tha' gar
ueh et Hoiile "oulo simply nave an
out u ooor S'oreloom, caieluliy ana
clo9ely PdcNeu, ohuer the Trees d.
sunny crest: 1T would looh the slor-
age part our guests would ask Us
Wheh we We're gong TO distribute the
things a"oo' the 9roohuS' unuer 'le LII
) pIeSeioH tnd' we ndu stored thehi the'e
: awaiting Sooo season ana lelsure
time. ny can we transplant Tiny
japanese garden INTO California nome
, place and make it appear, as 1t does
: here, like real landscape?
Because we can t. is the only reason
| know. You might as well try to make
: japanese maiden 5 hair curl with a
tendril- profusion of willful and bewitch-
/ ing rngIets and crinklv little curls that
: twinkle in silky destinations on the
brown head of an American woman
? know. Because Won can't.
To introduce the Jananesa garden
: into California we'd have to import
5 Japan. japanese gardening is not a
I trade tt IS an art They have a term
r ssbako.niva ,, to describe . oardan
r bnilded into tba 1itt1a :. on+. of doors, of
e flower not aImos+ ac comnIate as the
4 handkerchief Iandscana 7 have iss+ aa-
i scribed MANY Jananasa oardans ara
: without q since anwer which ;s bor5
a for CaIiforn;on ~ reai;zo Tbo,- nal, .
i Garden sr,nbo1 of soma ;aoa.-so,,,o
/ abstraetion-iov hountv friandsbin
s Tho mon ana r,nn,ar ara +ban,saI,.os
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t . comnanion With whom I ann walking
:, r makes mo feel ches+v among he
: Cbesterfelds T avoid the tall STRAIGHT
?, 1aorad Fpn1iebmon and +bo b1s1,
Germans and tbe sinevv Uncle San
/ Americans and consort with the neo
l, ple Of fine land Sometimes T feel like
0 GnlIiver amono the LilIinutians. HOuitf
I so ,, Ono day T saw the nolice nuie+I1
/ -avarvtbinri Is 5o,o on;atlv in TanaI
n that is really LARGE enough 10 he nois,
II abont-and learned that presently the
| { Prince q
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ahont 1887 T reckon So lined TT
With the rest to do my star-snanolet
bomaoino conIdn y oct within thre,
ro,rs of Tho c,rLs+ona which was mo
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