Show WORD PROM FROM ABROAD irvin F P fisher writes about the holidays a word of good advice we know that most of our readers are deeply interested in the young men and also in ili the older ones who go on missions and love to hear from f ro ni them as often as possible so 0 o by pe permission mission of miss rosa fisher we take the liberty to give you some extracts from a letter written to her by her broder broil cr irven dated kami ole branca kula mauai sandwich islands december 1892 in speaking of good health lie ile says ive been greatly blessed in this as well as many others since I 1 left home speaking of the holidays he says well as the holidays will be past and a new year upon us before this reaches you rosa I 1 suppose it will be too late to send by this slow going pap ermy eimy wishes that you and all the remay enjoy those hoi holidays alays I 1 but I 1 will nevertheless wish it now in my heart and will state on the paper that I 1 hope by the time thi this S reaches you you all will have enjoyed the holidays immensely with willi no sickness or trouble to mar your pease and camf comfort t I 1 do not however expect to zouave ave any holi holidays dayi here as a 9 I 1 it t liap happens ns that I 1 am to spend those two 4 holidays in two of tha small smallest estand and most out of the way branches athis island if I 1 were at laie honolulu or wailuku Wail uku I 1 would perhaps have a christmas I 1 dinner and be reminded that it was was rafi really but these holidays will be the same as they were a year a ago i go when I 1 was down on hawaii only still till less if 4 rl mf 01 1 1 1 any different as then I 1 was at a fair sized town during one of the holidays holida js saw a few of hawaii S bloods shooting for the royal turkey for their christmas christina dinner though I 1 did not have the privileged privilege of helping to sample any of the turkey I 1 did however have a very good dinner cooked by a chinaman and have never suffered as yet for either food or raiment hence cannot complain sometimes however I 1 feel like I 1 could relish theford the food better if the people were only a little cleaner and more particular in preparing it 1 I was pleased to hear bear that you were at work in the printing office and hope you will like that occupation for I 1 think as you say that it is one at which a great deal onn be learned and that is the kind of employment wo we should all seek for in my iny estimation it is the kind that pays whether there is dollars and cents in the bargain or not for the education of both hand and brain is one of the great objects of this ibis life the therefore I 1 would say to you if you roa take to that occupation and the confinement does not injure your health to stick to it until you have learned what there is to be learned there here rud and never mind if it pay ay as knuch as hard bard unintelligent labor abor when then after ter you have learned the trade quit it fo or r something better if it cosent pay financially but what we start at we should stick to until we have mastered it this is the only way to gai gain in success in this life f for our 0 1 ur lives will be wasted it if we are continually flitting about from one thing to another if you are still in the printing 0 office when you receive this give my best wishes to your associates and the lina nager and editor and tell them I 1 will answer letterstrom letters from a any ely of them with pleasure but that ivel ive concluded to britti aritte no more letters only in answer to thesel those 1 receive as ive written a number that have buve never been bean ushered answered and inthey are not worth answering I 1 time to write thern them it way may ile he that some that ive writer have never be been ell re received clyed |