The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-09
To BE- cOaiii ued.
what the People Say.


MIR. EDITOR, How are we to utilize our spare
time :? Improve the mind, master some science,
PROFOUND some scheme for the benefit of your
fellow citizens, do not let pass as useless one
moment of your life-thus your knowledge will
increase, your comprehension quicken, and you
will receive pleasure from your studies
L feel assured many in our community prac-
tice in their spare-time religious offices, and
study political economy, science and art, each
one TO his desire, but what strikes the stranger
is the absence OF athletic exercise, designed to
improve and keep healthy our bodies. You
have a cricket club, but a match is seldom
played except with a man-of-war's crew. You
have no racket court, no boating club, with
the finest water for exercise i'll the world. When
this matter lie discussed the reason assigned is
that the climate is too enervating, etc.-indolent
habits would be a more correct reply.
The only exercise INDUCED in is horse-riding.
horse torturing would be a better term the
poor brutes being ridden without the slightest
mercy, and ] trust some ADLER pen than mine
Will take up the subject of cruelty to animals.
especially to horses, so very prevalent and almost
universal here.
The skilled artisan who settles here must
either sit and study in his close room, go the
round of the saloons or low dance houses, or
walk up and down the main streets until bed
time; they soon get Disguised, the dulness pals
on them, they sicken, and leave us after a two
years to them of exile. l am pleading for Ma
tives as well as foreigners, and L call upon the
upper ten of our community to take the subject
OF atnletlc exercise anu pupiiC IeCIedblOu lhtO
consideration, remembering that a % healthy
mind should have u healthy body" A suitable
plot should not be difficult to select, with suffi-
c!ent space to erect n racket court, gymnastic
apparatus, cricket, base ball, and quoting
ground, bowling green, etc. Boating club should
be encouraged, and the improved health and
tone of the community would repay the outlay.
Founded on the limited liability principle, with
free grant of land from the Crown, a small fee
for membership, and the proceeds of exhibition
matches, would make the scheme almost self
supporting.
Athletic exercise beyond every other accom-
pIishment stimulates healthy rivalry and Il de-
sire to excel, and the desirable trait here de-
veloped is carried into the athletes daily avoca-
tons. As the time approaches when the na-
tives will have liquor at their disposal, our
rising generation should hav an object placed
Ich,Te them such as have attempted to describe
take a. feel assured would teach our youth how
athlet. care of the body. as the watchword of
things ~ is g moderation and temperance " in
~ day foe We all can afford at least one hour
light, ana r bodily exercise in the open air, in
dnH9-ipcev athe grounds could be used during
tne eTN occasionally by our amateur must
clahS' Mn&-4litar playing and singing are so
s~titution as proposed Saefssa0.iShnSnt OF an IN
thing to reconcile our foreign wOrNNllnS eome
otherwise very dull community. our