The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-03
(Mrs. RIchairdsOn)

Manila, eighteen years ago, army women were not allowed on trans ports for about six months after l left the United States for the Philip pines. ....t ..... ~
 I sailed on Pacific liner, Nip pen Maru, Our first stop after seven days sailing was Honolulu, a very beautiful city where there are many interesting things to see. Honolulu is on the Island of Oahu.
 The fish pond is one of the sights of Honolulu; it is in & large build ing full of glass tanks, one on top of another, all around 6 large room; the fish look as if they are in ice, hundreds of them, red, white ani blue and in fact all the eolOrs Of the rainbow; fish that look like any thing else but fish. I think the charge is fifty cents to see them.
 Wonderful Markets I The markets are wonderful. 1 Pumpkins and sQuashes grow to an enormous size. All kinds of veget- ables will grow In such profusion as to astonish those who have lived in northern climes. Green and sweet corn, Irish and sweet pota- toes, cabbage and tomatoes, beans, lettuce radishes and many other kinds of vegetables, all of the fin est quality and in the greatest pro fusion, can be had every day in the year,
 Strawberries and raspberries can be had all the year round. Guests stopping at the Honolulu Hotel can pick bananas without leaving their rooms. Oranges and lines grow to perfection in this country. The expensive alligator pear grows plentifully. It has a taste simi- lar to that of an egg. and is a great flesh producer.
 Taro Is Cheap Food
 The valuable food plant Of the natives is called taro or poe; the tu- bers contain mors nutriment for g given weight than any other Teget- able food,
 It is said that forty square feet of taro or poe will supply food for an average family for year; 1t Is planted like rice in flooded land. | Speaking of fruit we must not for get the pineapple. They can raise and mature pineaples every month in the year, which however, is also true oS bananas,
 The climate of the Hawaiian ts- lands is claimed to bs perfect, the finest in the world. The recorded average of temperature iR July Of a recent year was 76.4, and in De cember of the same year TOT.
 Ths native greeting is "Aloha nei," aloha meaning "great gyati- ficaticn, "nef" meaning "all ] have is yours" t
 Fond of Flowers
 The natiVes are fond Ot flowers. On feast daya they wear wreaths of flowers around their shoulders and on their heads. I have seen hun dreds of lovely big carnations in one wreath sell for about twenty cents.4 Ii;
 The Chiness duck farms are lone of the sights of Honolulu. The Chinese lease swamp land from the goYernment and raiae thousands of ducks 8 year for export.
 l have been to Honolulu several times. Every ttma find 1t more wonderful, We stayed 8 couple of days each time. After We left Homo lulu, our next stop was Kobe, Ja~ pan. From there we took train to Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Our next stop was Yokohama, where we stayed two days.
 A Shoppers Paradise
 When went to school and stud fed Japan, I never thought would visit her shores and see the little Japs with their Jinrichichas (Jin mpans man; Rich means strength; and the "cha" means carTtage) ready to take one to temples of all kinds. ...
 Then the wonderful silk stores and china shops, :, dps one to spend some of his none, IL was all like dream-so wonderful.
 Our next stop was Nagasah Wher all of our transports stopped to coal. Most of the army people buy their dishes at Nagasak.
 Speaking of the transports coal ing, 1t is a strange sight to see the native women carry coal on their backs from the bargea to the ships like so many ants, sometimes ,,;4Ya E,bo,. .,, &ba{,s hontru g..