Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-23
Write Descriptive Letters and
Ask Answers From Local Ha-
Waiian and American Pupils


The Promotion Committee has dis
covered another channel through
which Hawaii may reap a big benefit
from an advertising standpoint.
This new channel is not Promo
ton Committee project, however 1t
was created by two little girls back
in Bay City, Mich. who have sent de-
scTiptive letters 10 the committee with
the request that they be respectively
turned over to a Hawaiian and Ameri-
can public school pupil in Honolulu
for answering. -. ..s &.
Both letters are well written and
interesting. In her request to the
committee one of the girls writes;
Il am writing just a little note TO
you to ask you to please give by let
ter, enclosed, 10 a Hawaiian. If II
is not too much trouble i would like
you 20 send me folder Of Hawaii"
Her letter, which will eventually
reach some Hawaiian pupil, reads as
follows:
my dear new friend:
at seems very queer to address you
as my dear new friend, but | know
you are going to be, for ] have found
such nice people everywhere ] have
been. have not gone so very far,
but IL seems like long way when
one travels on the train day and night
for two or three days, and that is
what one has to do to go from our
home in Michigan TO Colorado or 10
Washington, our capital city.
II wish we could talk about some
OF the delightful trips ] have had. !
would tell you about the wonderful
Rocky mountains with their caps OF
elistening snow all through the year.
would tell you of the great. wide.
plains so barren and desolate that
one can see nothing but cactus and
sagebrush from the train spinning
along at about a mile a minute for a
day at time, except now and then an
old buffalo trail. / would tell you
about our grand rivers that you have
read about; the great Mississippi,
which Is nearly a mile wide almost
anywhere and very beautiful. | think
Dsome parts of It just as romantic and
charming as the st. Lawrence, with
its thousands of islands.
THE Niagara Falls are also Won
derful. Ii takes full half day with
d team Of horses and a good driver
TO take one to all the points of inter-
est on both sides and the rapids be-
low the falls.
II must tell you a little about the
trip took with our family two years
ago. We were gone just one month.
and in all that time we were hardly in
the same place two nights. We start
ed from Detroit on the most magni- .
ficent boat anywhere in the world on
fresh water.
con our way down the st. Lawrence
we visited those grand Canadian cities, !
Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. Que
bee is the most quaint city ever saw.
II is almost entirely of French popu-
lation and many of the buildings and
customs are so very queer. Quebec
was full Of real interest and its old
forts and battlefelds about which
much OF our earliest history was made,
are some of the things that we went
TO see.
New York was interesting to me
also. The things that interested me
most were Harlem Heights, where
George Washington won one OF his
greatest victories over the English,
and the Statue OF Liberty.
II guess you can see that | am glad
that am an American girl. OF
course, you are Just as glad that you
are under the Stars and Stripes. TOO.