Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-10-31

Wy June | returned from month in
the Hawaiian islands. Last year
spent six months there. My fam
ii u.s. who went out with me last
July on a months vacation trip,
all OF us having return tickets back to
New York, are still there-and what
is more, do not want to return. From
our experience | am sure that few
people in the United States, even
those on the Pacific coast, have any
conception of the beautiful scenery
the glorious climate, the gorgeous
sunrises and sunsets, the superb RAIN
bows the exquisite foliage and YER
dure and the enhancing conditions OF
lie in a semi-tropical cllme-where
none OF the rigors of winter are
known and the delights of the tropics
can be enjoyed with none of the
tropical objections to detract from
that enjoyment, writes a correspon-
dent Of the Philadelphia Sunday Rec
ord
To most of us the Hawaiian islands
represent a few dots like pin-points
wa llA' map III Alit VI liAt
Cifc ocean and if we think OF them at
all Il is TO dimly recall something we
learned in our school days about Cap
tain Cook and the missionaries, and
in our minds eye we see some half
naked sayages lolling under palm
trees. Only here and there is a per
son who knows that Honolulu is as
Ian I,f ,,-tl,
that its streets are paved like other
cities. some good some bad: that its
buildings are modern, its parks splen-
did, its schools as good as in any
city on the mainland, that Paris gowns
can be bought in its shops, that more
than a thousand automobiles run on
its streets and that it's people are
among the most travelled. cultivated,
hosptable and charming In the world
have been over most of the map and
II there Is n more beautiful place or
one with more natural opportunities
for happiness, | have not yet discov-
cred it,
Sunrise over Diamond Head, the old
volcanic crater which dominates
Waikiki Beach. seen when taking a
morning swim in water that averages
~ degrees Fahrenheit the year round
Is selight to the eye. The pink
Hush of the dawn shading into the
azure Of tropical sky and both re-
tected in water clear as crystal
touched here and there with white
caps, together with the intense green
OF the tropical foliage, and sometimes
al the colors blended in a rainbow in
NE west, make an impression not
soon to be eiraced.
Ever Changing Panorama.
In the early morning Mt Olympus.
MI Tantalus and the other mountains
BACK OF the city present an ever
cnasglng panorama. sometimes dark
green with overhanging gray clouds,
ther Scared sides lost in the mist,
d, other times the tops as clear as cut
glass and the ridges outlined against
the blue as sharp as the teeth OF a
saw.
These pictures are presented to the
SaIIy riser even from the deck OF a
snip on the morning of its arrival on
Tue shores OF the Island of Oahu and
'''ollectlons OF them recur to the
memory for months afterward, bring.
lug longing for the place that seems
% get into the blood.
should one happen to be at Waikiki
at midday, under the rays of a trop-
tal SUM- and drowsy with the scent
o. tropical flowers, soothed by the
singing OF the birds, and lulled bv
'he rstling OF the palms and the
muFmur OF the waves, yet dazzled by
'le sparkle on the water and charm
W sea grading from deep purple in
u'' distance through all the colors of
"e spectrum to the light green OF the
u.'ahers and the gray and white OF
'e sand and foam-it Is difflcult to
1,'er'hlne whether the dawn or the
noon presents the most attractions.
W.. a moonlight night at Waikiki
n,'ch with the soft trade wind rust
Is me palms overhead, the long roll
'S OF the ocean breaking at ones
e' and full moon over Diamond
lead casting q sheen on the water