Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-26
POTOSI GIRL
Tells OF TRIP
TO FAR LUzON
ENTERTAINING LETTER ON
VOYAGE OVER PACIFIC
BY MRS. ELMER HEROLD

her parents the following interesting
account of her travels to the Philip
pine Islands.)
Some Place on the Pacific,
Nay p, 1922.
Dear Mama and Dad:
There is not much news as nothing
has happened since we left Honolulu,
eight days ago.
We went to bed Saturday night and
got up Monday morning. How do you
account for that? We missed our
Sunday dinner of chicken and ice
cream. as we had no Sunday. The
reason we crossed the international
date line Saturday night about mid
night.
We surely have met a great many
fine people, who are going to search
in the Islands. The superintendent
wife, who knew Bart, is going to send
a cablegram to her husband in Ma
Mia, and have him ask for us in his
school. In that case we would be only
As minutes on the train from Manila,
but I don't care what place we get
sent to.
There is a man with US who went
over with Bart in 1901. He's going
@@SNS
and four kids with him.
All we do is eat, sleep, dance, play
cards, read and talk. I've wished
million times that I had some sewing
to do, as you know how restless l get
with so much loafing on my hands.
The sea has been just like glass for
two days. It's quite hot, but there is
a good breeze.
NV vaccination for smallpox took
fine and I'll have good scar, so we
are immune from that. When we get
there we're going to be inocculated
for the feyers we might run INTO
there; so will be free from everything.
AS Bart said, Honolulu is surely a
paradise. We bought big book de-
scribing the islands; so when we come
home we can refer to it and you can
read it. You know that beach at
Waikiki is the most famous in the
world. We took a good swim there.
Never had so much fun. The big
breakers about three feet high would
toss us around like cOrks. l surely
hated to leave there. | hope the PIC
lures we took there will be good.
Don't worry about us staying more
than two years, as we won't. We're
planning our hOmeWard trip already.
| dream every night that I'm home
and it's very refreshing.
So far we have not liked any OF the
tropical fruits; so l suppose We'll
live on bananas, cOcanuts and chicken
overe there. The papaias are ike
musk-meIons, and grow in great clus-
tiers on trees-awful sickening. The
water lemons are size of lemon, but
similar to May apples and sickening
too. We tried some poi in Honolulu.
II looks like dirty I'm of wheat and
is eaten as a vegetable. 1t has a
peculiar fiat taste that did not appeal
to us. The alligator pears are pecu-
liar fiat, woody tasting things. But
the Haurican pineapples were the
most delicious things I've ever eaten.
We surely did justice to them. The
mangoes were not up yet-but heaven
only knows how they will taste to us.
But I'm not worrying any.
Most all of the trees in Honolulu
had enormous clusters of flowers on
them. One boulevard was arched Tor
about two miles with trees that look
ed like crabapple, only much larger,
and the blossoms much larger than
the crabapple-a wonderful sight.
Other trees were filled with clus-
tiers of yellow hanging blossoms; and
others with great clusters OF flame
cOlOred flowers. There is some kind
of house plant back in the states that
have lust those big beautiful colOred
leaves | think Mrs Runkle has one.
In Havana they had hedges OF similar
plants miles long and from to feet
high-very beautiful sort of a brown
ish red appearance. They had many
beautiful stone walls and fences
which were over grown in some
places, entirely with vines HAVING
enormous flowers of many colors. AL
OF the flowers were exceedingly beau
tiful; such delicate colors. The Hawai-
ian. who took us about the islanC
picked me a beautiful bouquet IN the
mountains; so instead of wearing
them that night, l thought I'd save
save them, but the next morning they
were completely withered; you yot
see they do not last, neither did
smell any that were fragrant.
The roads that we rode on were
excellent, tarvia, l believe. Autoe'
were as plentiful as in Kawanee
There is little milk in Hawaii, as thu
grass does not contain the correc
nourishment. Milk is not served II
drink there. Delicious ice cream cos
81 a quart. The food there was sure
ly good-never ate such good salads
in my life and cheap too, 10 cents, ant
in the State it would have been so.
June Sth.
About to enter the China sea.
l intended to mail this in Guam, bu
didn't as it would have stayed there
month waiting for the next boat
Guam looks like just speck on tn
map, but is a very large island, am
very beautiful.
A mammoth hydroplane came t.
meet us from there, it surely looked
good to us, after having seen nothing
but sky and sea for Il days. 1t Ii
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on the water and went tearing along
as a boat. Some interesting marines
wives got on at Guam, they have
been telling us how much they liked i
here for two years.
Tho cea from Euam to here wa: