The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22
A USEFUL ART.

New industries Of n productive
nature have of late been much dis
cussed and commanded gratifying
amount of interest. The subject is
one that concerns the employment
of intelligent labor now in the coun-
try and the prospect of attracting
desirable population from abroad.
Therefore, the Importance of the
discussion cannot be too highly ap-
praised. Anything that will afford
useful employment to the rising
generation is worthy of being can
vassed. There are occupations help
full to general advancement, which,
thought not directly productive, are
of manifest utility and even neces-
sty for the facilitation and regula-
ton of business between man and
man, and the ministration of con-
veniencc and comfort to society.
Some time ago discussion took
place in this paper, regarding posi-
BILE occupation for the young people
constantly retiring from school with
the world before them. Anything
calculated to avert the necessity of
our youth going abroad to find en-
ployment suited to their capacities,
tastes and talents should be given
the utmost consideration. While
the discussion just referred to main
ly dealt with the children of the
laboring classes, question exists as
to the future of the children of bet
ter-situated people-the merchants,
mechanics and professional classes.
Such of these as have made their
homss here, and regard this land as a
pleasant habitation, will naturally
desire to have their children enter
upon honorable, comfortable careers
in their sight. Many of the youth
will, doubtless, become assistants
and Successors to their fathers, but
there must remain q proportion who
will find the parental occupations
overcrowded, otherwise unattaina-
BILE, unsuited to their inclinations,
or, perhaps, coming short of what
their education and capabilities fit
them for. The whole question, the
Importance of which will probably
be generally conceded, must have
its solution in large part from the
increased recognition of the advan
tages of division of labor. Will
the growth of our commerce ant
the increase of wealth, special de
partments of work in public ant
private business will be multiplied
involving the employment of staff
more varied in talent and training
than the passing era Of simplicity
required. Thus will advancing pros
perity create fresh sources of EN-
ployment for the youth of th'
country. The foregoing remarks
have been conceived as iptroductor,
to the recommendation of very
useful art, to the attention alike o
public men, business men and th,
bright young people of the commu
nifty, Stenography, or shorthand, i
the art referred to. 1t is very eX
tensively employed abroad, not onl,
in the official reporting of legislature
and courts, and certain classes 0
newspaper reporting, but in manu-
featuring, mercantile, financial ant
insurance offices. Advertisements o
situations vacant and employment
wanted in such concerns, in tn
large cities, very frequently give
knowledge of shorthand as a require
ment or capability, and there
much demand for stenographer
simply. Stenography is a grea
facilitation of business, and once
shorthand clerk or private secretar
is employed he is an indispensabl
servant, while law courts adoptin