New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-28

Tahiti Is Where PEG.
pie Go Whes, They Get
Tired of This World
and Are Not Ready to
Take q Chance on
Either of the Next Tuo

side Of the town the more elite ''hermits" store
their spare trunks. Otherwise, well-to-do
bond thief might find himself in with lot Of
low-brow poets who burn incense and drink
tea in the forenoon. Still it is rather difficult
to think Of everything in the first half hour
on shore.
Next in the path Of the alien invader come
the rows of hotel buses and stray hacks To
the man who is trying to "get away from the
world this may be disappointing spectacle
1t may SAVIOR too much Of Asbury Park n j..
or Saratoga Springs, N. Y. But when he dis.
covers that in remote Tahiti he can pick
from a long LIST of hostelries starting with an
A No palatial hotel, golf course included
on the premises, and sloping down 10 third
rate pension with eggs extra for breakfast,
he may decide that his notions Of hermts
life are old-fashioned and that it's al right
to be comfortable as long as the folks back
home don't know.
And after he has selected Ills particular
bellhop and Is jogging over the cobbles up
through the town he has another series Of
surprises. he notices that there are movie
houses to entertain the ''hermits," department
stores closing out bargains in full ''heTni,''
equipment and sightseeing bus lines taking
in all the points of interest on the island.
including the Paul Gauguin shack AMI the
Pierre Lott monument
He sees that they 60 in for sectional her.
nit associations in Tahiti A big banner
floating from a second story window urges
"Ohio Hermits Register here" He also il
informed that the South Atlantic States Her
mits, Chapter 40, are staging claInbake OF
the following Tuesday p. N.
Later he wanders into big open air park,
providing recreation grounds for several
thousand. A band plays in the center
ing, afternoon and evening. Quoits, rogue,
doninoes and chess are all INDUCED in freely.
For entertaining its visiting strangers st.
Petersburg, Fla, isn't in it with Tahiti.
Just where the wild life and the Tahitian
moan enter into the proceedings 1t is difficult
for him to imagine. And the Tahitian soil
tude is somehow missing.
The second morning at breakfast he bumps
into his wife's cousin from Topeka, dysDep-
tic individual who carries around bran mullins
in his coat pocket. If he mingles at ali, he
is sure to run into other unpleasant reminder
of his former misfortunes; the man who gave
him the bad tip on July cotton last summer,
a neighbor from down the street whose lawn
mower he broke and never returned, ward
politician whose fingers he had never creased,
boss who had fred him once.
After the first few days he becomes ar
customed to these petty annoyances and set-
ties down to take things as he finds then.
lie doesn't write home and tell about his dis
appointments either, and by the time he gets
back he has forgotten most Of them and eu-
largcs on the thrill Of leading the hermit life
But actually, you see, being recIuse in
Tahiti isn't so darn easy. If your are really
serious about getting away from the world,
try Hoboken or the upper Bronx. It's safer
in the long run.