Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-05-14
MISS HAYNES IN THE
] HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Extracts From Letters to DecOrah
Friends Outline First Impress
siOns.
CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE
AND NATIVE AMUSEMENTS.
4 Ormer Manual Training Teacher
Writes Interesting Descriptions
of Her Experiences i'm Our Pa
Cific Island Possessions.

4 Miss Nellie w. Haynes. who resign
ed her position as teacher of manual
training in the Decorah public
schools a year ago, to go to the Ha-
waiian Islands to do similar work in
the government schools, has written
Several very interesting letters to her
associates in the faculty of the
schools here, and we have prevailed
upon them to permit us to publish ex-
tracts from these letters, which we
are sure will be as interesting to all
our readers as they have been to
those who received them. Extracts
from letters of different dates follow
each other without special designa-
|tfon, and the series may extend
Through two or three issues of Pub
lie Opinion.
The town (and that is all that
lis all Honolulu is) is full of
Chinese, Japanese, Coreans and Port
|ugese, and of course the native. The
native or Hawaiian is the slowest
moving mortal you ever saw. The
women, though, take the cake, Most
are big and fat, wear a loose Moth
er Hubbard wrapper, usually with a
train, never wear corsets, go bare
footed all the time, and usually wear
a broad brimmed hat with a tiny
crown perched on top of their heads.
Oh, tell you they are beauties. Even
the better educated ones when they
are dressed up wear this hollico as
1t is called. There is this about all
the foreigners here. They are very
courteous to the white people and
seem to have great -respect for them.
Never have / been in place where
the men were as courteous as they
are here. You never see a lady (eyen
Jap or native) stand when on a
car. The men always give up their
seat and always raise their hats when
they do so. A man rarely comes into
the store and especially if he speaks
to me without raising his hat. OF
course the Oriental is noted the
world over for his courtesy so l sup
pose the white man hates to be out
done by his yellow neighbor SO he
looks out for his manners, thank
goodness. The children are more
polite and are not as impudent, that
is the foreign children. Young Amer
lea is the same the world over /
guess.
The country itself is lovely. The
palms are especially lovely. Most of
the homes have large yards filled
with shrubbery, and glorious palms.
Many of the homes have the Royal
Palms on each side of the drive way.
They sure are well named Royal"
The cocOanut palm is also plentiful
here too. There are not the great
great abundance of flowers that one
would expect to find in the tropics.
Almost all the trees bloom and have
great clusters of brilliant flowers.
OF course the vegetation grows all
the year, so it naturally would be
quite dense.
The islands are mountainous, most
of the mountains on this island being
extinct volcanoes. On Hawaii (pro-
nounced Ha-vi-ee) there are several
active ones. Kilauea is the Mecca of
all tourists who come this way. Sup
pose / will visit it before leave
here. You know / am expecting to
make the circle before / again touch
the mainland. Will either go to
Australia or China from here. Do
not expect to get on ''home" soil efor
some years to come. Now don't you
envy me more than ever?
Had two tickets given me today for
Maud Powells concert Jan. End. Am
looking forward to 1t with great an
ticipation.
While l think of, it l must tell you
about very exciting event that took
place on Monday. On the other side
of the mountains from us they had a
hail storm. 1t was such an event
that the evening paper got out an
extra to celebrate. The hail stones
were about as large as the top of
your finger. Here we felt no effects
of it. II anything it has been hot
ter and more sultry than ever. Just
at present writing the rain is COM
ing down by the bucketful. The
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