Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-17
.HAY7I URGED AS
HAVEN FROM ALL
HIGH COST FOES
Former Pearl Harbor Woman
in Port al Prince Provides
For Family of Eight

Hawaii can not compare with Hsyti
so far as the cheapness of living gAes,
in the mind of naval officers wife
who has gone with her husband from
Pearl Harbor TO Port an Prince, the
commodities of life oe:hg found much
cheaper in the latter place. The fol
lowing letter, printed ID recent issue
OF the New York Herald. paints Hayti
as a refuge from all high living costs
Its long way from Pearl HarJof
to Port au Prince, but here We are,
with our choice of living in hotel
rooms with stone floors, walls that go
only half way to the ceiling, Gicky-
bird bathtubs-or going to housekeep-
ing.
Two days at the hotel sent us house
hunting Perhaps a little housekeep-
ing may send us back to the hotel, but
we think not We have found house.
and two lieutenants of marines are
sharing it with us. A twoweeks-old
Herald--rare treat here-telis us OF
police rockies" who are living OIL
25 cents a day each I'll be back to
that in a minute, when ] have told
about our household.
You should see me with t7Julia, my
cook, going to the market in the morn
ing. She carries an enormous basket,
and today came home carrying a live
chicken No cold storage here.
My house boy arrived today, clad in
a tiny piece of what was once a shirt
and raggedy pair of trousers. He is
years old pay him So month and
have given him two of my white
MILDLY" blouses, pair Of store trous.
ers and a pair of white sneakers.
rouse Boy Cute
He looks awfully cute; his little
black face is so scrubbed and clean
it shines like an eggplant. 1t was
impressed on his little mind that he
wouldn't be kept unless he was very
clean.
We pay the laundress s. a month to
do the washing and ironing for he
entire household, uniforms and
that is, $l.25 apiece.
Now, we will get back to the ToOl
question. Our market here is supplied
from the surrounding country. The
native women come riding down the
hills into the town mounted on tiny
burros and carrying balanced on their
heads enormous baskets filled with
vegetables and produce of all kinds.
The skirts cut fashionably short dis
play no hose, from her toes dangle
heelless slippers. which never seem
tc fall off, even when she digs her
heels into the ribs of her donkey.
Only Ice Expensive
Food doesn't cost much here. Ice
is the only expensive thing, but, with
the big basket, Julia and a market
open every day, that doesn't trouble
us at ALL
For luncheon today we had roast
lamb, string beans, mashed sweet POI
tatoes, creamed white potatoes, tea
biscuits, tomato and lettuce saIld. and
grapefruit for dessert.
] feed the four Of us, a marine or.
Derby, Julia, Rose, the laundress; the
yard boy and the house boy the of
the eggplant countenance) for 81
American money per day Vegetables
are delicious and awfully cheap You
can buy good chickens, turkeys. ducks
and small birds. Spanish maekerel
and Haytian Holsters are very good.
They have here all the fruits we had
in Hawaii, but more oranges and
lines.
Now let US see how the cost OF feed
ing my rockies" per day compares
with the New York experiment Cap
tain, captains wife, Lieut. Blank, End
Lieut.. Blank, marine orderly. yard
boy, julia and Rose (not counting little
'eggplant'J. eight people. 81. Eight
New York police rockies" S. Il
Solution Of food problem: &C he 10