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


Hawaii can not compare with Hayti
so far as the cheapness Of living goes.
in the mind OF a naval officers wife
who has gone with her husband from
Pearl Harbor to Port au Prince, the
commodities OF life Je.ng found much
cheaper in the latter place. The fol.
lowing letter. printed in a recent issue
OF the New York Herald, paints Hayti
as refuge from all high living costs:
Its long way from Pearl Har0or
to Port an Prince, but here We are,
with our choice of living In a hotel
rooms with stone floors, walls that go
only half way to the ceiling, dicky-
bird bathtubs--or going to housekeep-
ing.
Two days at the hotel sent US house
hunting. Perhaps a little housckeep-
ing may send us hack to the hotel, but
and two lIeutenants Of marines are
sharing 1t with us. A two-weeks-old
Herald-rare treat here--tells as of
police rockies" who are living OF
% cents day each. III be back to
that in minute, when ! have told
about our household.
You should see me with Julia, my
cook, going to the market in the morn
ing. She carries an enormous basket,
and today came home carrying live
chicken. No cold storage here.
My house boy arrived today, clad In
tiny piece of what was once shirt
and raggedy pair of trousers. He is
8 years old ! pay him SO a month and
have given him two Of my white
MILDLY" blouses. a pair Of store trous-
ers and pair OF white sneakers.
house Boy Cute
He looks awfully cute; his little
black face is SO scrubbed and clean
1t shines IKE an eggplant. It was
impressed on his little mind that he
wouldn't be kept unless he was very
clean.
We pay the Iaundress S. q month to
do the washing and ironing for the
entire household, uniforms and all
that is, s1.25 apiece.
Now, we will get back to the Toou
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 bangle
heeIless slippers, which never seem
&c fall off, even when she digs her
heels into the ribs CT 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 po-
tatoes, creamed white potatoes, tea
biscuits, tomato and lettuce salad. and
grapefruit for dessert
/ feed the four OF us, 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 mackerel
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 tnot counting little
"eggpIant''l, eight people, ST. Eight
New York police rockies" S.
Solution Of food problem: Come to
HaYti.