Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-05-21

most point or the Hawaiian ISLANDS.
The ride over here was glorious.
How l wish you could have been
along to enjoy 1t with me. Part Of
the way we followed the sea, at 9TH
er times we rode miles between
fields of sugar cane on each side,
with the mountains in the back
ground and the old ocean in front of
us, in the distance.
Kilauea is not a town or village.
1t is just sugar cane plantation.
Everyone who lives here is con-
ected in some way with it. We
'| a store, run by Chinaman,
n n, Charlie, a post Office, two
dands mis- courts, all the horses
we wahN,> ride, and a river to row
on, the o. q to swim in, won
derful new hS! '"use to visit, also
sugar mills, anu sugar trains to
ride on. When =. fst came l stay
ed with Mr.. and Mrs. Myers in their
beautiful home. Mr.. Myers is man
ager of the plantation. The grounds
around their house are the loveliest
have seen, reminding me very
much of those of some of the million
aires at Lake Geneva; flowers,
lawns, fountains, trees and a beau
tiful river. 1t is joy to live there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myers are very charm
ing people, so hospitable, and make
you feel so welcome. The servants
are so well-trained, and it seemed
so good to sit down to we'll served,
well cooked meals again. A Japan
ese maid waits on table. We went
to school in the auto every day.
This is called camp" and the
school is about one mile from
camp. Last night, for the first time
/ stayed in my own home. Have a
room in cottage, which is only US
ed occasionally. Take my meals at
what is called "the boarding house.
Am very comfortably setiled and
know l will like it very much. The
school is great. / teach second
grade. There are four other teach
ers, one other white one, one Ha-
waiian, and one Japanese. There
are no white children in the schools.
Tney are all Hawaiian, Portuguese,
Chinese, Japanese or PHILIPPINES,
or mixtures. They are very polite
and dear children. They are much
nicer to teach than the white
children, for they are not impudent
or saucy and they behave so nicely.
1t is the dearest thing to see the lit
tie japanese children come and say
"good-morning" and goodnight y
They always make that little courtly
bow, that is so characteristic of the
Japanese. They are so demure and
the little bow is so defferential that
it is cute.
All the children come to school
barefooted, even the large girls
There is not one child in the whole
school that wears shoes and stock
ings. OF course all the children
come from the home of the labor.
ing man. While their homes look
fearfully dirty and their mothers dc
too, the children come to school nice
and clean. They clean their finger
nails every day and their faces are
never dirty like the faces of some
of my manual training boys useG
to be. 1t is much cooler over here
than in Honolulu, am glad to say
and there is much more rain. For
tunately, they are over in a few mo
ments. If you don't happen to bt
where there is shelter you soon get
drenched to the skin.
Only two mails each way, here
week. Have just been listening to {
down-pour, it only lasted about tive
minutes, but it seemed as though
in that two minutes the heavens
opened and let out all they con
tanned, for the rain came down in
torrents.
The mosquitoes are thick as
thick can be. Have to burn Chinese
punk to get any peace at all.
Aloha to all.