HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 



Many of the residents there have been educated in 

 the States. The Governor, Mr. Frear, is a gradu- 

 ate of Yale; his wife is a graduate of Wellesley. One 

 day a charming Southern woman, president of the 

 College Club, invited us to meet the college women 

 of the city. The gathering took place under the trees 

 upon the lawn of one of the older homesteads. 

 There were forty college women present, many of 

 them teachers, from Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Brs'n 

 Mawr, and Barnard. Among them were two girls 

 who had visited me at my cabin, *'Slabsides,'* 

 while they were at Vassar. 



Wide as is the world, the traveler is pretty sure 

 to strike threads of relation with his home country 

 wherever he goes. I made the acquaintance in 

 Honolulu of a man from my own county; another, 

 who showed us great kindness, was from an adjoin- 

 ing county; while one day upon the street I was 

 called by name by a man whom I had known as a 

 boy in the town where I now live. 



One Saturday a walking-club, largely made up of 

 men and women teachers, whose native Hawaiian 

 name meant "Walkers in Unfrequented Places," 

 asked us to join them in a walk up Palola Valley to 

 the site of an extinct crater well up in the moun- 

 tains. These walkers in unfrequented places proved 

 to be real walkers, and gave us all and more than we 

 had bargained for — more mud and wet and slip- 

 pery trails through clinging vines and rank lantana 



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