New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
HONOLULU LAND OF
 ROMANCE IS CLAIM
Moonlight, Traditions, Etc.,
 Which Inspire Pleasure Bent

Honolulu, Sept. 26.-The romantic lure of the south seas has become SC potent throughout the world that the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce is faced with an increasingly onerous and embarrassing problem. it's off, ciais announced here recently.
 For5inhabitants of the crass, cold commercial world of the Temperate Zone desire-and make their desires known in a pile of mail that is increas- ing constantly with each steamer to leave their unromantic atmosphere and come to Hawaii. the land of music and flowers, where tradition has the golden moon always full and where a persons life, according to popular belief. consists of lolIing on the shaded beach at Waikiki, famed Ly the cooling trade winds and reach ing up occasionally to pluck enough fruit from the overloaded boughs to afford sustenance.
 The writers of the last steamers mail ranged from stenographers, ed ucators, chiropodists, ex-jockeys, to schoolboys and countless others. All emphasized the great sacrifice they would make in coming to the islands. II the positions they hoped to obtain was that they be soft" according to Mrs. F. K. Stone, acting secretary of the chamber.
 That's all they want" she added. The number of letters containing the same request is increasing with each will have to be taken soon to cope
 
 the Chamber building will be inun- dated
 One graduate of four leading uni versailles. with a long string of de- grees capped with a "Ph. D.. desired to come to some local corporation as an efficiency educator"
 Another letter asked whether hem stitching was popular in the islands. If her sewing to Honolulu. A young man in the backwoods of Maine offer ed to travel 5000 miles to Hawaii to instruct the residents in higher edu- ation.
 A girl in California deferred to the spell that the Hawaiian moon has cast over her and wondered whether she couldn't help out some business man by doing just a little typing." Some of the letters show that the writers have at least little knowledge about the islands" Mrs. Stone said. Others are just as farfetched as that written recently by a man in a small Virginian own. He wanted to know whether there were any nice. warm tropical islands for sale in this vii cinity. I answered that he could find, without any trouble, a real estate firm that would sell him part of this very island but doubted whether he could even obtain a lease on all of it."
 Another incident illustrating the lure of the tropics concerned a letter that some friends of an army enlisted man stationed here wrote to a news paper in Portsmouth. England. sign ing the private's name without his knowledge.
 This is more or less a lonely life for a fellow in Honolulu. as white women are scarce" the joking letter said.
 More than one thousand women in England have written thus far, offer ing to marry the man. re said. The women range in age from fl to 40, but all have felt the urge of the south seas. The letters are so numerous that postal authorities in San Francisco tic them in bundles of 50 each. The man said: "The truth of the matter is that I don't want wife as I can't support one
 Meanwhile the letters continue tn