Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
of cre~. Other spots of blue and other posts of crem--3 get them a11
together and I could eat them, (laughter)-colored near the shore. The
variation in color is due to the degees of depth. I was told that lass
bottomboats cruise along that shore Mrnwhich one can sae the cor 8
growing. There were vast mountains all together pen w5ah spots of PHI
loomhg up from the shore on either side of us, while hmqdiately in
front of us were wonderful pinaapple farms." They gave uq a box of pineapple
on the boat to take with us.
'-meir green tops extended above the earth which was reddish brown. There
were little caqs standing out white here and there, withiroads winding
in and out the pineapple fields which were arranged in f cy shapes,.and
were only -red in their loveliness by the word, 'Libby? rnade by an a~rmgemnt
of the @awing f'ruit. Thus Is beauty ever forcqd to include the
stamp of comrcialisrn. I' (laughter) (3-1, dear. I'M. Pala itself is of
historical significance having been the point upon which tjwo hundred people
were in 1739, driven off the precipice by an opposlvlg forqe. And a battle '
ensued between two kings of the islands3." Now n-y wrlting+is clearer here.
I d t had had a poor pen back then. "1 shall always hop4 to have another
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opportunity to see the view fkasn Palli." I never did.
"F'rom P@lli, we drove to the punchbowl which gave us a view of the
entire city of Honolulu, and much of the island of Oahu, won which it
is situated. We also saw the ship, Nippon Mam, lying at the pee,
We went next to the aquarium, une of the remarkable placed of Honol~~$u."
I've heard much about it. They say that it's the finest we anywhe
most gorgeously colored and remkable shaped fish, the apanese
with it's wonderful fan trailing tail was mng the mst qonspicious .
Such brilliant colors of blue and orange and corhinations bf rose, p b ,
pqlesiand pens. One could not believe such thingp eated unles$ having
seen them.
From there we went to the Seaside Hotel on Waikiki Beach. Here we donned
our bathing suits of the California type. It (chuckles) mt was to put
in--I don't remrrber them. "Made abbreviated. " (laughterr) Oh, .we used to
wear awkzL funny--you're too young to know what kind of bqthing suits we
wore in the beginning. Skirts and sleeves and everything, up to yoy neck.
Q. So what was the California type, do you think?
A. Well, this was a little bit mre up to date. (chuck
sure it had a skirt to it as well as the pants. "The Chi
the beach said, '.Red Cmas no payee, no payee. Double
to realize we were guests of the Honolulu Red Cross. We kpd the pleasure
of rideng the suPf in the outrmr canaes. They were m e d by natives.
This is a most deli@tfd sporti and it f s said that it can be indulged
in at no other place b the
On& of these boats t ed over with
four nmes in it, but ail were saved. We w$lmthe to core
out of the water, but
we all voiced the sentnt that we
never had a more
" There ' s a native at phe head of the
canoe and you're holding on. A great bZg wave is ooming
towa~?ds you. way, The great big ve is forming
ahead of you and you go over down and then youf re al1Tplashy and
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