The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-05-26
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

invited mechanics of this Kingdom
to participate in the coming show.
This is not the first invitation OF
encouragement offered to our me-
chanics by the above named society,
though it seems that again the
climate will have to be alleged as
the cause of q chronic phlgema.
Is there any better opportunity
offered to handicraft to show, teach
and to learn, than at an occasion as
this
If stockraisers, planters and hor
ticulturists consider it necessity to
exhibit for the sake of study, how
can the mechanic remain at a dis
tance, can he ever arrive at perfec-
ton as long as new ideas revolu.
tionize present systems
Would it not be of great impor-
tance, if the mechanics worked hand
lin hand with the society to make the
undertaking to become success?
DO they forget, that this little
sacrifice of time viii be to their own
advantage at the end is it not the
duty of every manufacturer and pro-
| ducer to convince a certain class
of people of these islands, that home
manufacture is equal to imported.
We have a foundry and machine
shops, great planning mills and other
large establishments where skilled
labor is employed, don't they pro-
duce anything worth showing?
Allow me to lay before you a
plan, by which, if adopted by the
society and if carried out IN proper
manner, an exhibition, as far as
handicraft is concerned can be made
very interesting and attractive.
Let the society furnish a rough
structure in shape of a house of
about 4 rooms, and the mechanics
and dealers Gas far as imported
goods must be unavoidably per-
mitted) unite to fix up house as
cosy and also elegant as they can
afford without losing their materials.
First carpenters and cabinet makers
may show their skill, inlaid floors
(Parquet, etc. } introduced; on cheap
muslin, paper hangers can exhibit
considerable art by producing dif-
ferent original designs on each wall
and four different samples on. each
ceiling, the decorator will follow
with his elegant display of draperies
curtains, cornices, brackets, etc. The
walls should be adorned by pictures
painted by. local artists and framed
with stylish frames of home manu-
facture. To our upholdsteress an op-
portunity will be given to prove that
goods of their own make are not
only warranted durable but just as
good in design as the best imported.
In kitchen the manufacturer and
dealer in tinware will have chance
to show us all necessities of n ner-
fectly furnished kitchen. Here
also the painter will find favorable
field to Operate, for nothing pleases
a good house-keeper more than a
nicely furnished kitchen. Grained
wainscotings should be abolished
and substituted by marble or granite,
harmonizing with the base Of range
and chimney, tiles for floor, ETC.,
etc.
After only having fitted every
chamber as so far mentioned / am
quite sure the rough wooden struc-
ture will bear different inside APP
pearance, which again will be changed
at every annual show. 1t may
appear to some like a dead invest
ment and mechanics especially pain
ters and paperhangers may not feel
inclined to exhibit, as they could not
withdraw their work. But in a COM
munity like this, where is so much
on dit done to protect certain in
trests, think way will be found
to encourage mechanics, without ex-
pecting of them to sacrifice more
than others.
l fear Mr.. Editor, that / have ex-
tended my remarks beyond the gran
ted limits for correspondence but
knowing, that great deal more
wants to be said, l most earnestly
request you and the editors of other
papers to deal with the subject oc-