The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-17
LIFE is AN IDLE DREAM.
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slope of the yard where a magnificent
rubber tree, with great spreading
limbs, 1876 feet long (fner than the
old elm trees of New England two
or three hundred years old, shades
the whole place.
Then are found here the native
vegetables and fruits, growing every
where to feed the lazy and improvi-
dent, needing no mans care or labor
The great mango trees, beautiful as
shade trees, the cocoanut palms,
loaded with green cocoanuts at the
base of the leaves: the bread fruit
tree. of beautiful foliage, the alligator
pear, the mountain apple, the guava
strawberry, very delicious the wild
lemons and oranges and lines, the
bananas and pineapples, the Japan
csc cherries, the wild raspberry, as
big as your thumb and an inch long;
and acres of guava, out of which the
delicious jelly Is made, the fruit as
large as apples and growing wild. All
these and many more, whose names
don't know, grow wild and lavishly
the year round. The fiber of other
trees makes cloth for clothes, cover
, ing for walls, mats for the floors, or
Il comfortable beds to sleep on.
"As I motor about with DIR. Hayes,
or ride occasionally with others N
the largest and most expensive auto
mobiles made in the States (and
there are number here), l look
across the bay at the low hills COW
cred with rich cane fields, these hills
,serrated and broken in outline by
, volcanic action. On them are the
great mills going day and night, With
their fumes and villages of snacks
for their employees, all yielding ~ "a
most profitable Of all crops to their
owners, and giving work to thou
s6nds of the dark races.
An Active Volcano.
Thirty miles from Hilo "a fha
most wonderful volcar ,es IN tte
world, 14,OOo and 1HON0 SAAt above
.ne sc" ~ What force must have
o;"n these up from the depths OF
the sea! They are snow covered
most OF the year and one is now.
,Kilauea, on Mauna Loa is in most VIC
lent action, a sight to inspire awe
and. terror, though it is visited
weekly by tourists from the States
and the other islands.
"Often in a drive we come sud
denly into the Chinese or japanese
e quarters, and bit of the Orient Is
before you-the clumsy traffic boats
, of the Japs. on which they live witt
: their families and sail and trade Will
? the smaller places along the coast
or the fishermen, most expert il
throwing the nets and catching tn
: fish as they come to the surface, mud
except for the breech-cloth and look
Il ing like great bronze statues in thei
d perfect form and development; q
s. you can see the gentle little Jal
, women, always a smile on their faces
trotting along in their straw sandals
1t with their short, narrow skirts pulle
~ tight about them, an obi pad on thel
r backs, and baby strapped about
while they are doing their work.
IN "They are truly the beasts of bu
1t den for their husbands, but cheer
os and wholly submissive, unless a MOI
loving nature wins their smiles, whe
IN they go off quietly with the love
xt and the case is settled by the pa
in ment of a few dollars to the injurt
party. There are but few Chimes
s. here, preferring, as they do, the la
n, ger opportunities of Honolulu. whe
tn many of them are successful me
he chants and have large fortunes. He
Ia is a whole village of the Portugue;
lf- each having his own home, the M
ed working on the breakwater, in t
20 cane fields, or in the sugar mills, a
MI the women coming into town eve
ar day on their little ponies, a dozen
,rs a group, all riding astride, their sh'
no skirts leaving the legs bare. Tn
B. bring many sacks to carry back p
visions or merchandise. They are
Al s4 o,,5o,.I,y raoa and with the