Show Tropical Christmas on the Islands in Hawaii I ITS IT'S TS T'S asking a n lot to expect people A born in temperate latitudes to get steamed up about Christmas in the tropics But to children born on islands in the middle of the Pacific Christmas is still still Christmas Christmas writes Armine von in Cosmopoli Cosmopoli- tan On the outlying islands in Hawaii Christmas is carried in on horseback horseback horseback horse horse- back and the jingle of spurs replaces the imagined tinkle of Santas Santa's merry sleigh bells On Christmas eve some inner part of or of orme me waits and listens all night for Jor forthe forthe the tramp of horses' horses hoofs the ringing ringing ringing ring ring- ing of spurs rich Hawaiian voices singing above resonant guitars and gay ukuleles for cowboy ers riding from ranch to ranch Like cadenced meles which put an everlasting spell upon pon you memories memo memo- memories ries of Christmases spent on the thousand sixty-thousand-acre cattle ranch my fa father ther managed on the slopes of Haleakala the extinct volcano on the island of Maui Maul persist with undying undying undying un un- dying vividness A fair number of persons representing different races races making up the sum total of humanity participated in them Americans Hawaiians Japanese Chinese Portuguese and their crossings crossings crossings cross cross- ings assembled under sunder our roof Christmas eve Each group brought a flavor peculiarly its own to add to the Birthday of all birthdays |