Smaller than the one in New York, it yet contains fish of such gorgeous and impossible nation, for much of it is of the spirit rather than merely physical. Nor have these words hues touched and of such fantastic shapes as are to be found nowhere else in the world. Even to see Is not entirely to believe when it comes to Hawaii's colored fish, so utterly impossible do they seem. Beyond the Aquarium and the Park lies Diamond Head, with its encircling | highway high above the ocean inviting motorist and stroller alike. Back across the city in the beautiful grounds of a privately endowed school for Hawaiian children is the Bishop Museum, housing a famous and intensely interesting collection of Hawaiian and Polynesian historical relics. | ‘Those features of which mention has been made are among the more unique and extraordinary things Honolulu has to offer. Nothing about the city is really ordinary, however. A mere bungalow set in an emerald-green lawn and practically hidden behind and _ beneath palms, poinsettias, hibiscus and purple bougainvillea, with perhaps papaya and banana trees in the background, and a pink shower or a flaming poinciana regia in the foreground, ceases to be a mere habitation and becomes a fairy palace. Yet such sights are commonplace along Honolulu’s shaded avenues, particularly in the summer months when the Howering trees blossom profusely. And back of the city, framing it marvelously, rise those on all of the physical attractions of Honolulu and is Pearl its environs on Oahu. ‘There Harbor, fifteen miles from the city, with its great naval base and its inner harbor which shelters the yachts and motor-boats of the wealthy. ‘There are the vast sugar plantations, broad acres of pineapples, tiny farms where rice fields under water are fringed with banana trees. ‘There is Schofield Barracks on the high plains of Leilehua, a great military city in itself. There is the marvelous Mormon temple at Laie around on the ‘‘windward” coast. There are the cozy little beach and mountain cottages where many Honolulans spend their week-ends and vacations far from the comparatively bustling marts of trade of the Cross-Roads City. Space will not permit mention of more than these. Northward from Oahu to Kauai, one might expect to find more or less of a duplication of beauties and diversions, less the life of the capital city. In fact, however, Kauai is vastly different from Oahu throughout. Geologically it is the oldest of the group, and where the other islands show volcanic scars and old craters, Kauai shows neither, and is’ so rich in vegetation that it has been called the Garden Island. Words can only sketch and can never adequately portray Honolulu’s beauty and fasci- Kauai is usually considered the loveliest of all the islands. It is a great pile of mountains, rising to about 5,000 feet above the sea, with only the narrowest fringe of coastal plain on which lie the plantations and the few towns and villages. Along this plain for eighty miles and more runs a highway which skirts some of the most entrancing coast-line [12] [13] richly tinted mountains, about whose sharp peaks cling the fleecy cloudlets left there by the southward blowing trade-winds. A drive or a walk into into those mountains is a journey a bowered fairyland of beauty.