IN THE EAST INDIES. 143 
Dear Mother and Father : 
We have just come back from our walk in the 
gardens and every day it seems more beautiful than 
the day before ! Orchid plants simply covered with 
blossoms or sprays two and half to three feet long, 
and hundreds of colors and sizes, these all growing on 
other plants of every sort. I am never tired of seeing 
the different spice trees, and tea and coffee, actually 
growing; they are so lovely and fragrant. I am anx- 
ious to bring home specimens of each, which of course 
I know is totally out of the question. It is much cooler 
here now than it was when we were here before. We 
intend remaining here in Java until April 13th when 
we sail for Singapore and thence to China; so our let- 
ter address until about June Ist willl be care of the 
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Yok- 
ohama, Japan. Then from June Ist until the 15th it 
will be eare of Bishop & Co., Honolulu, Sandwich Is- 
lands, and then care of Mr. Barbour, San Francisco. 
Time has simply flown and it does not seem possible 
that we have been married half a year on April Ist. 
When we had been married five months we were on 
the boat coming from New Guinea and we celebrated 
the day by having a Huntley & Palmer’s fruit cake, 
which you can get almost anywhere here in tins, for 
the last course at dinner. I always think of Adelaide 
when I see these Dutch people eat their rice table. She 
thought De Prudnick’s table manners so dreadful 
(which they certainly were) but with this exception 
these people were perfect. They never by any chance 
use either a knife or a fork while eating chicken; they 
simply take it up in their fingers and pull it apart and 
shovel it into their mouths. 
