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

ana throwing the serrated SIDES OF
the old brown crater which dominates
the entire landscape into deep sha-
dows. while the strains of "Alcha De"
or Una Like No a Like" sung softly
by some natives strolling under the
palms to the accompaniment OF strum-
ming "Ukuleles" leaves memory
that will last forever. Verify, the
place is rightly named "The Paradise
of the Pacific" and the expression
THE Lure of the Islands" which !
have seen somewhere fits the feeling
that comes over one after leaving
them. There are other beautiful places,
but nowhere else have felt the same
call to go back"
Comfort In Honolulu.
Honolulu presents every convent.
ence and comfort for good living. Its
hotels measure up to all requirements
and fit every taste and purse The
Young" a modern stone block, gives
the usual good European service
downtown. The Royal Hawaiian"
gives the beautiful surroundings of
the old days; also downtown, THE
Pleasanton," fine old mansion
about halfway between the business
district and Waikiki remodeled to
make a modern American plan hotel,
is set In fine grounds surrounded
with all of the vegetation of the
tropics, while its outlying cottages
and swimming pool make 1t very at
tractive. At Waikiki THE Moana,"
pretentions modern wooden build
ing, fronts on the beach. 1t is Of the
type of many along the shores of
both oceans and about what we Of the
east would expect to find at Atlantic
is fine hosiery.
But the charm of all is summed up
in the so-called Seaside hotel at Wal
kiki, collection of cottages set in
beautiful cocoanut grove right on the
beach, which was formerly n part of
the kings seashore estate. The main
building, which is not very preten-
tious, was the royal cottage. Attach
ed to 1t Is a beautiful Lanai or
porch used as n dining room, and this
Lanai with it's overhanging trees and
its beautiful views and surroundings
is intellectually the finest thing in
Honolulu.
a family party, or friend or two,
taking one of these cottages, contain
ing from two to five rooms and one
or more baths, has the best of every
thing that goes with tropical living.
Here one can get swim at rising
and before dressing, Afterward, a
cold shower and then breakfast on the
Lanai in the open. gives a zest to the
life that is found in few places. II
one cannot partake of the joy of living
under these conditions, ones case
must be nearly hopeless.
The schools at Honolulu and gen.
orally throughout the islands meas
ure up to the best American stand
ard. Undoubtedly 1t will surprise
most people, as 1t did me, to learn
that the first college west of the Mis-
sissippi river was at Honolulu, being
established about eighty years ago by
missionaries. This school is known
as Oahu college or "Punahou" and
with its attendant preparatory school
is as good as there is on the main
land. My daughter, coming from one
of the best schools OF the east, en-
tered the junior class and took up the
same course in the same books as II
she had continued in the high school
near Philadelphia. Oahu certificates
admit the holders to nearly all OF the
larA eastern colleges, including Yale,
Harvard, Wellesley, Vassar. etc.