A HOUSEKEEPER'S PARADISE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 February 1908, Page 4

A HOUSEKEEPER'S PARADISE.

• How much simplified housekeeping would bo if wo lived in the Island of Moorea : in the South Seas 1- Hugo Tarton. in the ''Outing: Magazine," declares it to be the happiest, and most beautiful spot oil .earths As a contrast to strenuous American'trials with cooks, this description sounds alluring :t- -•■■■■ "Whenever you are thirsty,/a'.word. will send a lithe brbwn body scrambling, up a tall palm-tree trunk-and in two minutes a green, cocoanut is ready for you to quaff—the llrciar of tho Polynesian gods. It is worth the;trip down here to eat the native '.vittals,' for you .got: at every meal things you never tasted before, and each seems better than its predecessor. The sea gives your dinner of fresh (Water shrimps, sharks' fins, and roasted sea' urchins. : The bananas you -cat—there are eleven varieties—baked, raw, fried,' dried— grow a few rods back' in the valley,' ditto th 6 -breadfruit,the pineapples,' and< -.abouteverything else ion the board.- It's nice- to have your morning coffee'grown in >the back yard. Guavas grow.in such' profusion they are used as pig food; grated cocoanut is fed to hens, whilo sensitive-plant ■is considered excellent; fodder for. cattle./ ,

"For. perfection of the human' b6dy the Taliitian is unexcelled, if,- indeed, he is anywhere equalled./ ; They are a large race, both men and women being noticeably taller and more fully developed ■ than Anglo-Saxons. Every man looks-like-a,picked att.letc,. with sloping shoulders' and bared chest;. .'I, doubt' 'if. any Society Islander eyer .went through.-, a whole day in , his life without a wreath''of 'flowers., .on his- head or a .blossom: behind his ear, - The love of flowers is:innnto,witli mail, woman, and child; they can't pass through: a patch of t woods. without, emerging with a garland. - EVery gay mood calls for flowers— -and their life is an almost unbroken sequence of gav ..moods. . Scarcely „,a /native on the Island of' Moorea ban spe;ik a sentence of English,' but overy one. you' meet greets you with a courteous "smile and the welcoming words x la-ora-iia:'''. ,,, - .''-r'-":-:r*~--r"™-. .. .