Show tropical christmas on the islands in hawaii I 1 TS asking a lot to expect people 1 born in temperate latitudes to get steamed up about christmas in the tropics but to children born bom on islands in the middle of the pacific christmas is still christmas writes armine von in cosmopolitan on the outlying islands in hawaii christmas is carried in on horseback and the jingle of daniolos pani olos spurs replaces the imagined tinkle of santas merry sleigh bells on christmas eve some inner part of me waits and listens all night tor for the tramp of horses hoofs the ringing of spurs rich hawaiian voices singing above resonant guitars and gay ukuleles uku leles for cowboy serenade ser enad ers riding from ranch to ranch like cadenced meles which put an everlasting spell upon you memories of christmases Christ mases spent on the sixty thousand acre cattle ranch my father managed on the slopes elopes of haleakala the extinct volcano on the island of maul persist with undying vividness A fair number of persons representing different races making up the sum total of humanity participated in them americans hawaiian hawaiians Hawaii ans ns japanese chinese portuguese and their crossings assembled under our root roof christmas eve each group brought a flavor peculiarly its own to add to the birthday of all birthdays |