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A tour of the local curio and art shops discloses many choice articles typically Hawaiian in their manufacture or character. There are to be found everywhere quantities of tapas, lauhala mats, calabashes and leis, but in so heterogeneous a mass and so mixed with other things that their appeal is apt to miscarry. Tourists find it difficult to select mementos to carry away with them, and so much valuable patronage is lost.

There are infinite possibilities in an establishment of this kind if managed by a person of good judgment and artistic taste. A careful assemblage of the above articles, groups of the really artistic photographs of native types to be found in some of the shops, framed in the beautiful koa or kou woods; together with other wares which might be easily evolved, would make an attractive showing. Home-made candy specialties and other delicacies characteristic of the islands—creamed cocoanuts; pineapple candies; home-made guava jelly; mango jam; chutney—all are in demand. A tea room, with a young woman to check packages for shoppers, has also been suggested by a number of people. A poi luncheon (which is nowhere available at present) on steamer days would be a novelty.