Koamalu : a story of pioneers on Kauai, and of what they built in that island garden / by Ethel M. Damon. [Vol. 1, no. 2]

GROWING UP

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sponge cake for supper I expect he thinks he does not have very
good things to eat when you are gone however he is coming here
to dinner on Saturday and Emily and I are going to strain our
cooking powers to the utmost.
I am in a great state of flustration to see your new bonnet
Emily and I went to Madame Prevost's to see her beautiful books
they are most Elegant fashions so much prettyer than the fashions
we see here.
Willy has gone over to Wailua to carry some Saleratus
because your poor dear little Paulo has none.
Emily has just been reading me her letter to you and I feel
very much ashamed of my meek little letter by the side of her
brilliant epistle. and then I know you like big things much better
than little ones nowadays.
We have most exciting times playing with the little kittens
the most conspicous of Which is Sammie Pogue Who is very
large and fat with a monstrous big head and "great rolling blue
eyes and long yellow hair" and then there is Clara and Alfred
Wight Mr. Banning and Mr. Krull. Mr. Krull is awful ugly and
is a horrible little Cat Mr. Banning is very pretty and makes a
most commicle picture in trying to run fast.
I would tell you about Sabbath School but I suppose you are
too far gone in Worldly Vanity to care about it.
George Dole came over the day after you went and painted
Mother's room but goodby from your aff Sister Mary Sophia
Hyde
~~~~~Hyde Rice ma
P.S.
I will use your farewell words that I have plenty to say but
not time to say it.
In the way of a child small Molly had touched without
knowing it on one of the serious sides of the life at Koamalu. Her father's grave illness was becoming more and
more apparent and the frequent visits of Paul Isenberg
from Wailua were often to talk over plantation matters.
With his youth and vigorous outlook he had come to feel
that the work at Lihue might be more economically
organized, that the one ditch might be enlarged and addi