The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-23
From Birmingham 10 Honolulu

This Is the story of two clever Sir mingham women, Mrs. Stella C.. Hawkins and her nelce, Miss Helen Frances Watts, who have recently returned from a six months visit to Honolulu, paying all of their expenses by affiliatinE themselves with big business corporations in Honolulu, Mrs. Hawkins, with tremendously wealthy trust company, and Miss Watts with B prosperous mercantile corporation while there.
 Mrs. Hawkins was quite "at home" in her position-her long experience and efficiency at the American Trust bank here fitting her admirably for the work she did there and she en- joyed every minute of the time and talks most interestingly of her visit.
 Last July, somehow the wander lust spirit seemed to grip me terri bly and 1 asked for q six months leave of absence and planned trip to the Hawaiian islands. Leaving here for San Francisco we, of course, enjoyed all the attractive sightseeing points around that city-Hollywood and the moving picture colony, the Golden Gate and all the beauties of San Fran ciSco-and we took passage from there on a magnificent steamer mak- ing the trip in eight days.
 "On board, while there were many interesting people,-many Honolulu residents returning-the most inter esting character we met was phys ician en route to the Hawaiian Islands sent by the Venezuelan government. He was carrying with him A.000 trees from which the Ch9uimoogra oil for leprosy Is secured. The physician was from Caraccas, Venezuela, where these trees grow in profusion and some body--a woman l think discov- cred the oil to be an efficient treat ment of leprosy; formerly the trees were only obtainable in Asia but South America now abounds in them and he was carrying this great cargo over.
 We saw many ieprous children in Honolulu" Mrs. Hawkins said, that Is I mean born of leprous percentage, but not having developed 1t they are allowed to leave this island-one or the eight Hawaiian islands which IS set apart, for the leper colony-and to go to Honoiuiu--but whenever they deyeiope any signs whatsoever or leprosy they are examined and treat ed.
 Arriving in Honolulu the first im- pression of the place, which has about so, 900 population, is the beautiful snow white beaches, the wonderful tropical foliage, glorious sunshine, for 1t scarcely ever rains there, ana when it does, it is such beautitul mist that the natives call It hqulu sunshine.' The wonderful flowers arc genuine treat also. We hrst nVeo In a very nice hotel which my sister who had lived in Honolulu had toie me about, and who had really oeeh the cause of the 'wanderlust taking m there. Later, we had charming little bungalow apartment, which was cozy and lovely and we enjoyed ie more than 1t Is possible for me to say.
 "Every body in Honolulu stops work at four o'clock in the afternoon the big bosses as well as those em- ployed-and they make straightway for the beach-Waikiki beach. which has been immortalized in songs ana story. with the uklele (which they pronounce as if it were "oo-ke-ie-ie ) ana the saxophone, which is the faN- orite musical instrument of the Ha- waiians. The music and the aus dancing in Honolulu, is so dlnerehe from the exaggerated things we nave seen here; 1t is more of rehsioh there In fact music and dancing arc part of their religion and it Is so mystical so graceful, and so faneiful that 1t couldn't be mistaken for any thing wrong.
 "Everybody goes to Waikiki beaen as I said before, and there the batn- ing and the singing and dancing IS simply wonderful, and the moon light nights are marvellous. There are more moons in Honolulu than anywhere in the world. l mean more moonlight nights, and the tide sways