Blue waters and green and the Far East today . he docks I saw a grimy stevedore, half-naked,plashed with sweat, but about his ragged hat was awreath of flowers that money could not buy in theStates. Incongruous? Yes, elsewhere, but here nat-ural; he would not work without them. To him,there in the stifling warehouse, they mean his littlehome, where he will go when he has earned a few dol-lars. They bring him a breath of the open, the fra-grance and greenness of this, his land. They are tohim what a drink or a smoke is to the New York orLondon stevedore, and it marks character, the aes-thetic t
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . he docks I saw a grimy stevedore, half-naked,plashed with sweat, but about his ragged hat was awreath of flowers that money could not buy in theStates. Incongruous? Yes, elsewhere, but here nat-ural; he would not work without them. To him,there in the stifling warehouse, they mean his littlehome, where he will go when he has earned a few dol-lars. They bring him a breath of the open, the fra-grance and greenness of this, his land. They are tohim what a drink or a smoke is to the New York orLondon stevedore, and it marks character, the aes-thetic touch and love of nature that this beautiful sum-mer-land has nourished in her poorest and lowliest Honolulu is modern, up-to-date, with wide, well-paved streets, stately business blocks, and as fine anelectric car system as you shall find anywhere. Eachhouse is detached, and each unlike the other. Andabout each a wealth of strange blooms, floweringtrees, fronded palms, bizarre exotic luxuriance, sothat every house is a picture by itself. [26]. HONOLULU Through avenues of the stately royal palm,white, smooth columns crowned with a burst of feath-ery foliage, you see wide-eaved houses, each with itslanai, a sort of outdoor sitting-room, roofed andsheltered with woven jalousies, the living-room of thehouse. The lawn is a native grass, almost equal to blue-grass. Here is the Ponciana Regia, the most gorgeousof all flowering trees, whose perfect umbrella top isgreen beneath and scarlet above, with its mass ofgreat flame-colored flowers that rest on the greenfronds as though they were strewn there by Bougainvillea, a tree with purple flowers; thepink shower and the yellow shower trees, cov-ered with pink and yellow flowers; the Algeroba, therubber tree, cocoa palms, bread-fruit, papai, thatbears a melon much like our cantaloupe; the alligatorpear, used for salads, and countless others, novel inform and bewildering in variety. Every outlookentices, every aspect allures. You a
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