Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1911-09-21
A Letter from Honolulu.

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Honolulu, Aug. 10, 1911.
Dear friend:
The days have been so full and
the life here so full of comings
and goings, that one gets lazy
and dreamy and letter-writing
times hard to settle down to. For
the first month Of my stay here
my days were scarcely my own.
J My friends were so carried away
with this wonderful place and SO
anxious to see all its beauties
thatI did nothing but escort them
around. We first went to the
wonderful volcano of kilauea, on
the island of Hawaii, and it GER
tainly was \ most interesting
sight. Il is about 200 miles from
here, an all night sail, and then
30 miles by automobile, over a
roadway lined with tree ferns, n
forest OF grand old trees. wild
roses and guava bushes, with
glimpses everywhere Of waving
sugar cane plantations. After
reaching the Volcano Hotel we
lunched and rested and then star
ted fer the crater, a distance of
seven miles. This drive was
simply perfect-a road as smooth
as a floor, made partly over ex-
tinct lava, winding through won
derful foliage, plants, trees, wild
flowers and so on t the very
edge OF the crater itself. We
STOOD on the ledge and gazed
down $50 feet into a lake OF boil
ing, swirling, molten lava, that
spouted and bissed and dashed
the sides like mighty waves and
was 1000 feet in diameter. We
remained until after dark, when
it was most spectacular, casting
a rosy glow over the whole heav-
ems.
On our return here after four
days we spent month at the
beach, in a little bungalow situa-
ted in an old cocoanut grove and
took all our meals on a huge la
mai. or porch, open on three sides,
and within % feet of the sea. 1t
was simply ideal. | am mailing
you apamphlet, marking our cot
tage, the dining lanai, beach, etc.
/ My friends renamed until
April 90, then | went to a dear
friend, on the same beach, who
has a lovely place. They live in
about four cottages and have a.
many more for their Chinese and
japanese servants, and spent
three delightful weeks there and
[ go back for several more. Then
came here, up in this beautiful
Neumann valley, to visit the dear
est, white haired, Martha Wash
ington type of woman, who loves
to 60, entertain, and play bridge.
as do. I've been here a month
and stay another week, when
20 10 visit cousin, whose father.
old DR.. McGrew, is called the
'fataer of Annexation. |,
would take reams to tell sou all
I've done-the wonderful rides
around the island, visits to sugar
mills, drives through b ana n a
groves, taro pa les, pineapple
plantations, trips to a beautiful
resort across the island, both by
machine and over Il railroad tina,
skirted the shore all the way, and
the breakers dashed their spray
even into the car. The hospital
ity of the people is world wide,
I've been lunched and dined and
bridged; been to military balls,
Gas tho were fifteen, instead OF
in the fifties) and had the mos,
! delightful drives you can imagine
The scenery is SO varied-in half
an hours time you can 60 from
seaside to mo lntain domes. There
- drawbacks in all places, but
tAwer ere than in any place
Know ONO -s or poisonous
reptiles, lew pedes and
scorpion s.ings are no,
+. Iauserous wing to the lack OF
a!neral III the soil, these islands
, oelng OF coral formation, and the
1nly flaw to me are the mosqui
,oes, which are plentiful at the
, beach but very scarce in this
part of the island.
The population is most cosmo-
politan. The Japanese FREEDOM
, mate and the little brown women,
!, always in their native dress. look
; as though they had stepped from
oil the stage of the "Mikado. "
they are so gentle, soft-voiced
and polite. Chinese women roam
, around in their pantaloons of silk
and slashed jackets, and there is
a large percentage of Portu guese,
Poto Ricnns, l:ussisns, Fillipinos,
ETC., etc., 50 with a population on
this island of Oahu of about 5O.-
, OoO, with not many more than
o,oOo whites, you can imagine
now foreign, and especially ORR
entail 1T is. But such up-to- date
, ness of the Anglo-Saxon YOU
seldom see. They are much trav-
eled, dress exquisitely, entertain
E lavishly and in a way equal tc
anything Eve ever seen IN New
, York or elsewhere. and they have
their beautiful automobiles by
D the hundreds.
l expect to remain a month o,
: so longer and then proceed to
: San Francisco for short stay,
and on to Southern California Ia
: keep house for Lucy while she
and her husband take an eastern