Show Home and ir ii-ir Hawaii I I Contrasted by fey A Centerville vile Man Laie I Oahu T II February 21 1929 I Mr John Stahle Stable Editor I Bountiful Utah My i dear frie friend John I It is mid-afternoon mid ofa of a perfect I ithe tropical day and a half hour ago n o the tiny plantation train came puffing up to t the e store I am in disgorging I the mail mall from Honolulu that reach reach- reached reached ed port on the steamer MATSONIA two to days ago Among the papers I I letters A and magazines I th the I and that was th the first of I the assortment assortment I opened It was Vas your issue of Friday February I and amon among the items my eYes eves de de- de described scribed was a paragraph relative to I toI the terrific combination o of zero I weather plenty of f snow anda and a regu regu- 1 lIar lar regular windI time old-time D Davis County East windi wind l I could s see sec e without closing my eyes I Ithe the Arctic scene scene between Bountiful and Centerville where poor old Jimmy I Burns and his cohorts were were laying I i sIege siege to the onslaught ht that swept I I i l down in a fri frigid id breath from front the I canyons eastward and covered up his I I tunnels ls on the state highway as soon as his back was turned Toward the i end of the paragraph in question my eyes dilated as I suddenly cam came a across loss this phrase Johnny Adams Adams Adams j i jwill WIll be glad that he is in away from rom these east winds Never have I had the contrast between I Da-I vis Da I vis county and the so vividly drawn as that paragraph marked it I and J I lowered the CLIPPER to my knees gazed out the window at the I typical al Hawaiian scene spread before me in panoramic splendor and I seemed to see clearly yet in some strange juxtaposition the scene at home and here at the same identical moment Gradually I forced the ice and the snow and the blockaded road and the howling ling East Easl wind and the leafless trees and the smoking chimi chimneys chim- chim chimneys i ne s 's and the of it all to toI I the with the high resolve I that I would immediately step overt over I Ito Ito to the plantation store a few rods away and see what sort of picture the old typewriter would paint for lor I II I you were I to meditatively thump its I i ii i keys as I thought alternatively of home and md here I Framed b by the window and not notten ten feet from it to the east cast of our I Laie home where I sat reading the CLIPPER when I went into t th tb trance I saw two tall straight state state- stately stately ly coconut trees loaded with nuts state state-I in all stages of development from the tiny blossom to the brown ripe nuts I I A wide-spreading wide oleander thrust it-I it itself it- it itI between them I self into the picture and on both sides of the corner lot ran a preen green flowering well trimmed well lotI I hedge of the hibiscus shrub Two I dat date plains stood in front of the I I house and pots and boxes of flower I flower flower- flower in I stood the porch in rag geraniums g on railing made of sized evenly evenly s zed smooth h I volcanic stones Over this rock rail rail- railing railing rail rail-ing hI I ing ing clung a beau beautiful i ul coat oat of green climbing foliage like ivy To the right a red flowering almond tree stood guar guarding ing the boundary between our home and the plantation office I II I could hear the click of the lawn mover as ns the diminutive Filipino furnished by the plantation without cost pushed it At the back backof backof backof of the house stood a clump of Hawaiian sugar cane and over over th the chicken run spread a breadfruit tree t ee with its broad notched shining I leaves and md its green rough skinned rough I clumps of fruit as large as ns canta canta- I canta-I cantaloupes cantaloupes loupes By the gate leading from the I hack back of our home to the rear of the store store I work in a friendly bunch of banana plants neck-high neck towards the path we traverse many times daily as if they sought the touch of humans At regularly re- re recurring recurring re recurring intervals we are able to cut cuta cuta a 3 bunch of fruit there Across the street the tall rosebushes rose rosebushes rosebushes bushes of our neighbor loom above 1 the green picket picket fence as if weary of confinement within the yard ard ever every everyone I Ione one waving high a naming laming torch of vivid red roses Up the road load run run- running run running ning to the each a few hundred yards eastward I could see a bigi big i square of coconut trees their lon long longI I graceful g draping fronds waving in inthe inthe inthe the soft sea breeze like gigantic green ostrich feathers Down the road came a couple of well built well Now listen to Henry Stahle Stable snicker out loud Hawaiian women clad in inthe inthe inthe the proverbial mother hubbard in which the first sect sectarian rian missionaries mission missionaries n- n nies ies taught them to drape themselves a hundred years no ago ago no shoes hose nor hat Passing them were Filipino laborers from the plantation their hard days day's work worl began at six just justI finished They have been loading lo I cane for the mill and as it is all burned over as it stands in the field first to remove dead lead leaves and rub rub- rubbish rubbish rub rubbish bish the loaders get the full benefi benefi of the sooty stuff on clothes clothe's and looking looking body like walking walking- blocks of I 1 coal I heard hearl the store machine ice machines ice ice I whirring awa away industriously as it ma made e solid blocks in in a few hours what had hd been ordinary water water-a water miracle in the tropics To be sure you ou would get the exact information information ns as to the temperature I though b beat t tto to glance at t the e thermometer as I walked to m my desk and it read reach 71 and it hovers thereabouts the year round Suppose we could have nave pump pump- pumped pumped pumped ed a few thousand cubic feet of this summer summer perpetual air over to the the Bishop the snow would have retreat retreat- retreated retreated retreat retreat-cd ed faster than ever shovels and scrapers and other mechanical con con- contrivances con contrivances make it con I On the way to my work after I had partially emerged from the soporific effects of the tropics clash clash- clashing clashing clashing ing with the Arctic in my mind I glanced dreamily out the corner o of my eye oye as ns I passed sedately through h j i ithe the kitchen to observe surreptitiously what my good wife mi might ht be plan plan- planning planning II nin ning fo and there on the table was a dish of ripe tomatoes I and a bunch or so of beets fresh from 1 the garden of our picturesque old Japanese vegetable woman and I re- re rei recalled recalled re i called as I went down the back steps J that three days ago we had had a i mess of green corn on the tha cob ands and I green reen cucumbers a n foot long Just as ast asI t I rounded the store corner I sud sud- suddenly suddenly suddenly II denly thought of an item that appear appear- appeared appeared ed in our Honolulu daily a n short time timea I a ago o concerning a Japanese man who I had been arrested in Wahiawa tw- tw twenty tw twenty enty miles down the coast for steal steal- stealing stealing stealing tw 1 ing ripe stra strawberries from a neigh neighbor's bors bor's patch Now watch Eph Briggs and Willard Carr stiffen up in their chairs and snort out explosively I I dont don't believe it I am afraid that David Mabey will willbe willbe be Willibe askin asking me for a sample of these Willi ripe fruits to display in the Bank window and I know how hove fierce al a scrap a green Hawaiian cucumber and a Davis Dais county East wind would make so so with the permission of your our readers Friend Stahle Stable Ill I'll ring off Come on Bishop Cannon and andI I the rest of your old timers timers old your our palm-beach palm suits and your leaf I palm leaf fans and well we'll stroll along Waikiki sands the very next moon moon- moon moon-I moonlight moonlight light night and watch the dusky fair fair- fairies fairies fairies ies writhe in the hula as they chant melodiously into your our ears cars our win win- winsome winsome some ALOHA OE I With best regards to all my snow snow- snow fighting win win-I fighting friends of old Davis I am the same Johnny Adams who is glad lad ladI I he is in Hawaii away from the East I winds I JOHN Q ADAMS ADAIS ADA IS |