The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03

| imagine why she washes at night in
stead of day timeS), a party across the
street and one next door, the blare OF
bugleS from all over the post and a
thousand other noises. This was a
very quiet place when we first came
but we were the only regiment in the
area then and there were only about
four hundred of US. We have grown to
nearly two thousand now and in ad-
dition we have another full regiment
| of two thousand with its officers and
| families and flock of japanese
laundry people and maids, both men
and women, so there is a lot of noise
all the time"
Mrs Hughes's description of the
myriad of noises during the church
services at the post will make the To-
peka Sunday school teacher feel that
she has perfect Heaven compared to
those other teachers who have their
church services at the army post in
Honolulu on a cement floor, in a
building where two thousand men
Heongregate for a movie every night in
the week. Her vivid description fol-
| lows:
"A ball game with a band and much
| yelling one hundred yards away, a dog
| fight with more yelling and barking in
the Battery street to the west, a noisy
tractor and several noiser trucks
under the windows to the east snorting
and coughing, bugle corps practicing
| in the corridor below, the Eighth ar
I tillery band practicing in thelleft wing
OF the building, cooks of some twenty
batteries and their helpers shouting
and laughing and singing as they pre-
pare the Sunday dinner for four thou
sand men, two Cinnamon from the
restaurant spouting rapid Chinese as
they bask in the sun on the front
steps, two half stories below. All these
noises and distractions are not con-
i0IHlV6 . nd f,,T -, 9
the morning Bible lesson
In another beautifully worded de-
scrlpt1on she tells of a trip to the only
real river she has seen on the island.
II was such a typically Hawaiian trip,
a great many things here have lost the
| Hawaiian look and have become
japanese or Chinese or simply Ameri-
can. On both sides of the river, which
was about the size of Soldier creek at
nome without the high banks) were
tai hollow rushes and huge lava
boulders, and farther back palms, both
the low, bushy kind and the tall cocoa
nut palms. with feathery tops and grass
nuts the first real grass huts I've seen
mere. At one place a flight of rude
steps led from the back porch directly
down to the water and a little
Hawaiian girl in a white dress with a
red flower in her long, black hair
stood on the top steps under an
enormous banyan tree looking down
at US. At another place we heard real
| hawaiian music, ukuleleS. stee
stringed guitars and ordinary guitars
and many voices singing When we
passed by we saw a whole partv OF
natives having a. 1uan' or feast The
women wear white or light dresses ali
made Mother Hubbard style Gas al
real Hawaiian women dress tho the
material may be lace or beautiful en-
Droldery or satin) with flowers in
their hair or 1eis' wreaths of flowers
around their heads and necks. The
men wore white or Eight trousers and
SHIRTS open at the threats and dark
relt hats with 1eis' around the crown
Oh red' yellow and white flowers. The
voices and the music sounded 81
sweet over the water. The music i,
very often improvised and has muci
less Jazz in it than records from the
think. ~
AT another place on the shore w
saw native laundry, a big tub o
clothes and two round volcanic stone
worn smooth by use, one as large a
the seat of a chair and slightly hof
lowed on top and the other, like
ioat OF bread, to pound with. Rattle
heroic treatment for dirty clothing.
We watched the sun go down
lemon yellow among the clouds on tn
norlzon- We came back thru the Ha
Wann-Jap village on the outskirts o
Helelwa where small brown chiIdrel
and many dogs played in the doc
yards. The air was full of WOO
fsmoke and the odor of fish frying TO
! supper.
Il never saw Such wonderful
scenery, not even in Colorado. Tn
, road goes around the whole island
close to the shore and that gives u
the mountains on one side and tn
sea on the other. Yesterday the sur
came in and broke on the black vol
: canic rocks in spray that dashe
twenty feet in the air. The color eff
fects We're beautiful-cIear green, blu
, water, white spray black rocks, re-
} and gold sunsets, white coral, sand o.
the beaches and on the other side