Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-12-16
Miss La Ventia Premo, Daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Premo,
Tells of Delightful Time
MEALS ON DECK ALL
SERVED VERY FORMALLY
Hawaiian Music by Orchestra Be-
fore and During Meals and For
Dancing

Miss LaVentia Premo, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Premo is at pre-
sent teaching in Piihonua school in
Hilo, Hawaiian Islands. She is having
a delightful time, even though she is
very busy working as the following
letter tells:
My trip is so far in the background
that hope you will let me dismiss it
in few sentences. We left San Fran
cisco on the S. S. Maui, August 25, and
arrived at Honolulu August 31st. The
voyage was delightful after the first
day, which was rather rough. There
were ATS passengers on the Maui,
about 100 of them were teachers. The
ship was as luxurious as any we'll ap-
pointed hotel. The meals were excel
lent. Breakfast was served at eight
o'clock. At ten o'clock stewards
brought broth and crackers to the up
per deck, where our chairs were.
Luncheon was served at twelve, and
at four, tea and cakes were served on
deck. Dinner was served at six All of
the meals were elaborately served in
courses, even to breakfast. The cabin
boys brought lovely fresh fruit to the
rooms in the evening.
A Hawaiian orchestra played before
and during each meal, for the movies
on deck each night, and for the dame
ing afterward. There was plenty of en-
tertainment besides this. In the large
saloon on there was always music in
the evenings, card games in the after
moons, and on deck there were sports
and games of various kinds during the
day. Best of all, think, was to stand
at the stern of the ship and watch the
waves as they were thrown back with
the most marvellous color effects.
Natives to Meet Ship
OF course, when we arrived at Homo
lulu, we were met by native boys who
swan out to meet us and caught the
coins thrown by the passengers. This
was such an interesting sight, the
swimming and the diving was mar
YelOus
We remained a week in Honolulu.
Our friends had the lOveliest beach
house near Waikiki, where we had de-
lightful swims. We were taken to the
quaint native shops, Japanese, Chinese
and Hawaiian Our friend has been to
Japan and knew just what articles
were real and what had been made for
Americans! We were very much in
terested in the sUrf-board riding an0
Outrigger canoeing at Waikiki beach.
The Hawaiians are certainly as much
at home in water as on land. Oahu, the
island on which Honolulu is situated,
has coral reef nearly around it.
which prevents sharks from coming
near land. This makes bathing pos
sible
We took the 'Mauna Kea' for HiIo
on Wednesday and arrived Thursday
morning. 1t was the toughest trip
imaginable. Nearly everyone was ter
ribly sick the whole time on board
(ship). This inter-island boat makes
the trip twice a week, (and) brings
our mail on Sundays and THURSDAYS.
and carries the outgoing mail on Mon
days and Fridays.
At Plantation Homes
When we arrived in Hilo we were
met by our supervising principal who
gave us the information that our
school would not be finished for sew
eral weeks and that our cottage also
was in the process of construction,
but would be ready for occupancy in
about a week. He said that the plan
tation owners would keep us at their
home in the meantime Mrs. Hen
derson came Immediately to take us
to her lovely home. This is a cane
plantation of five thousand acres. one
of the smallest plantations on the is
elevation of 10000 feet and is nearly
four mile from Hilo, it is always cool
and pleasant here, though Hilo was
rather uncomfortably warm during
September The Henderson's took US
for many long rides, to their beach
MUSE LOT lne week emu, ana we en-
joyed being with them so much. We
felt as though we were indeed being
in the lap of luxury. They have four
big cars, saddle horses from Kentucky
many servants, a house at the vol
cano and a summer home at the beach
At Japanese School
Our supervisor had arranged for us
to teach at the Japanese school un-
til our school was finished 1 wish /
could make you see that first day with