Housekeeping At Samoa

Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson says that housekeeping in Samoa was not so idyllic as it might seem. Her supplies came from New Zealand or Australia onee a month, so that if she wanted a bottle of bluing or a bag of flour, for instance, she had tosendhalf across the Pacific to get it. The native diet was all well enough for a few weeks, but as it consisted almost solely of fruit and fish it began to pall on European palates. Housekeeping in this South Sea paradise (of romances) had other drawbacks, particularly in the matter of expense, which was fully six or seven times as great, Mrs. Stevenson says, as living on a corresponding scale in San Francisco. As for society, "there's more of it tothe square inch in Samoa than in any other place I know, " says Mrs. Stevenson, bnt it appears to be largely of the living picture kind.