The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-19

school is conducted are entered from
Punchbowl street. The teachers are
Miss Corney, principal, Miss Luce
and Mrs. Wood. All that was as
serted of the Fort Street and Royal
Schools with respect to premises
and discipline is equally true of the
Pohukaina. The girls Of this school
also participate in the benefits of
Mr.. Berger's instructions.
THE PRINCIPALS ROOM.
The school consists of native
girls, and no company of misses
stronger and notwithstanding can
be seen anywhere. These con-
ditions are visibly due to whole
some disregard of some of the
sitting fashions of perverted civil
lization. A piece of dictation is
put on the board by number of
the girls, with readiness and cor
rectness. 1t being Friday morning,
the regular programme for the
greater part of the session is recita-
ton. This commences by nine girls
coming to the front, getting into
place with military precision, and
going through few physical exer-
cises for the benefit of the chest and
lungs. They then recite in chorus,
"The Mocking Bird and "The
jolly Old Pedagogue." Both reci-
tations are rendered with good voice
and spirit. A few minutes are next
given to reading, in No. w., for
which clearness of tone goes down
on the memo. of ''notes." The
Fifth Reader has also been gone
through by most Of this class, and
the Fourth and Fifth are both used
for sake of variety. The remark
frequently heard from teachers that
such and such pupils have "read
through the book" and are now
"doing" it over again, is proof
positive of the urgent need there is
for radical revolution in the read
ing department of all schools. What
would adult readers think of being
obliged to read De Quincy or Mark
Twain over and over again until
they were able to describe the sue
cessive experiences of an opium
eaters life, and to recall every bur-
lesque of the "Innocents Abroad?'
OF all books in the world, the ordi-
nary school reader ought to be the
last to have second reading.
A review lesson on definition of
terms in English composition fol-
lows. Answers are prompt and full.
Specimens of different kinds Of
poetry are cited, and thorough
rehearsal of definitions and examples
of the triphthong, diphthong and
diagraph is gone through. The
writing from memory of few lines
of previously recited poetry is ac-
complished by few of the girls in
a style of indispensable correctness.
There are no rulings to guide the
hand. The lines are perfectly
straight and at equal distances. The
very spacings between words are
regular. The lettering is clea1
enough for an engraver. A page o.
such copy laid on printer:
case would make him shed tears O.
delight. Bella Bolster comes for
ward with a beautiful recitation
"Forget-me-not.' sThe Origin o
the Moss Rose" is then given b.
Abigail Wana, and the "voice o
the Grass" by Pinihaka. Bell
Bolster and Abigail Wana give tn
dialogue, GA Fashionable Call,
which is brief but spicy. Another
1.-THE Little Nest Birds" is wei
rendered by Abigail Wana ant
Maria Lii. 1.-The Curfew Must No
Ring Tonight" is recited' with ap
: propriate action, and in fine patho
and excellent voice by Louise Ka
nae. Tabitha Kekumu, Rebecc
! Miriam and Lo6isa Kanae are set t.
work at the boards to solve origina
/ and selected questions in commo
fractions. They bring out thei
work in way that shows carefr
| attention to the several rules 70
operating these bothersome pre-
: cesses.
) MISS LUCE's ROOM.
.. The adjoining room is. occupie
by classes taken singly in success
. sion, from the principals room
2 The class is copying on the board
from the text books, the object {
!, such exercises being to practis
writing and to become familiar wit
5 the spelling, use of capitals, an
e punctuation marks. The text
u transcribed with literal and rigi
accuracy. The time of this cla'
being up, the girls return to tt
principals room, and their plac'
IS here are taken by another compar
e of eight who first undergo while
= drill in the multiplication table, ar
= then in mental arithmetic, involviI
IT a knowledge of the four simple rule
d They next proceed to the blac
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