Outside of Honolulu the only resort on Oahu worthy of the name is Haleiwa, a delightful little place on the shores of a tiny bay some thirty miles from Honolulu. The features of Haleiwa are its bay, which affords almost perfect still-water swimming, a nine- hole seaside golf course in connection with the hotel, submarine coral gardens, and miles of picturesque shoreline backed by lofty and| beautiful mountains. For those making an extended stop in the Islands it affords a delightful change and rest from the comparatively full social life of the Island capital. _ As was intimated of this story, in the opening Honolulu is, in the paragraph minds many, Hawaii, and Hawaii is Honolulu. of The average person in tact says he is going to Honolulu, never to Hawaii. Perhaps that is due to the mental hazard attaching to the pronunciation of Hawaii. (It should be said: Hah-wy’ee, or even more correctly, Hah- vyee). Be that as it may, Honolulu is an extremely interesting city aside from the remark- | able beauty of its natural setting. Perhaps Honolulu the is the most interesting cosmopolitan feature nature of of its population, in which Oriental and Polynesian types predominate, with the Caucasian in the minority. ‘This has made of the city itself a place half-American, half-foreign, and totally unlike any other community to be found under our flag. Some sections of the city, including the retail district, the finer residential districts and the beach, are distinctly American. These, according to our standards, are by far the most beautiful, but for the true adven- turer, the real globe-trotter, they are much less interesting than those districts in lower [ 10| Nuuanu Valley, down around the fish markets and the river, and out Palama way, which are rather unlovely to the eye and from which remarkable odors assail the nostrils. In some of the districts mentioned one finds true bits of the Orient transplanted. ‘The tiny crowded shops with their odd assortments of stocks; the narrow sidewalks crowded with outlandishly garbed and _ shrilly chattering men, women and children; the great fishmarkets with vendors loudly hawking their wares trom open stalls, all have a fascinationfor the true adventurer which make him forget the dinginess of the surroundings. And at that it is mostly a dinginess of appearance rather than of actuality, as sanitary regulations are strictly enforced throughout Honolulu. : | Roving through these Oriental districts one never knows when a bazar will be encountered filled with art treasures and rare goods of the Orient; or when a Buddhist or Shinto temple, Oriental in all its architecture, will appear tucked away between high-walled buildings or half-hidden in an unexpected garden full of hibiscus and gorgeous bougainvillea. Then there are the quaint Japanese tea-houses with their tiny gardens fantastically ornamentedplaces truly Oriental from the dainty kimona-ed maids who serve you, to the rice bowls and tea-sets about which you sit cross-legged on the floor. Every stroll through these sections of Honolulu is a potential adventure, delightful and intriguing. There are many other fascinating spots in Hawaii’s capital. Out past Waikiki where Kapiolani Park nestles up against the bulk of Diamond Head, is the [1] famous Aquarium.