The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-20

would alarm a flock of sheen. But
with the maintenance OF good govern
ment and orderly indus. ries the first
teeIing OF alarm has passed away, and
the congregations in the churches are
beginning TO return in their usual
mum oers 10 the regular services of the
Sabbath.
The students OF the y. p. VI. l. who
have been recently employed TO dis
tribute the daily newspaper (the Kuo-
koal at first were Stunned and derided
by those who thought that the Ha-
wallan monarchy was the foundation
of Hawaiian nationality. Now they
are welcomed most cordially, and the
debating societies. so popular among
Hawaiians, are discussing the prob
able benefits of annexation.
No personal ill-will has been mani
tested, except perhaps in Kaumaka-
pill church, where the well known
sentiments of the pastor in opposition
TO all schemes Of wiekedness have
brought out and concentrated upon
him the spiteful opposition of those
who had identified themselves with
the worst elements of Hawaiian char
acter and customs, under the idea
of bringing TO the front that
which was distinetively Hawaiian.
Yet this feeling of opposition origin
ated before the memorable days of
January, and has only been intensi-
fled by the immediate present results
OF the change in the government. The
political disturbance has made no
material change in the boarding
schools, and any loss of scholars on
that account is so small as TO be hardly
worth mentioning. Many of our
ladies, individually support from one
to five girls in these schools. The
financial straits which were so har-
RAISING at the beginning of the year,
and seemed TO threaten even the con-
tinUance of the schools on mission
airy basis, have been happily averted
by large donations from one who at
this time has shown himself more
than ever n true benefactor of the
Hawaiian people. The board of edu-
cation has also dealt so literally with
the schools that, with the aid received
in accordance with the appropriation
made by the legislature, needed re-
pairs and Improvements can now be
made. The many and frequent changes
in the corps of teachers in these
schools give occasion for great anxiety
to those who have the general man.
agement of them for a certain degree
of acquaintance with the character
is les of Hawaii ms is needful for the
accomplishment of the best work in
the instruction and training of the
young.
The schools have done much for
themselves in the way of exhibitions.
From everyone the report is uniformly
i'm terms of highest praise. Yet, at
the entertainments given by kawaia-
hao, which could hardly be excelled
by scholars of any race, in any COM
munity, there was a noticeable alb
sence of Hawaiians in the makeup of
the audiences. To the regret of AL
interested in the advancement of Ba-
waiian girls, the resignation of the
matron and sewing teacher, and the
lack of funds, necessitated the closing
up of the girls industrial home, under
the management of the Cousins So
ciety, after two years of successful
operation.
A missionary spirit has been kept
up in Kawaiahao seminary by the
monthly meetings of the Lima Kokua
(Helping Hand Society, under the
direction of Mrs. l.. Z. Coan. This
society is an auxiliary of our board
and gives generously to various de-
partments of Christian work.
The absence of the consecrated ele-
ment, which went out from the insti-
tute last year to the Gilbert Islands
mission, has been noticeabIy felft in
the work of the year. But the r. ports
that have come from the field, on
in regard TO the promising Indications
of usefulness in the labors of the
new missionaries, and has been some
CONDENSATION for the loss sustained.
Rev. Mr.. Lutera and wife, who have
been employed in home work for the
last two years, on account OF her
health, expect to return to Apaian by
the next trip of the Star. As gen.
er thing, the work of these partially
educated Hawaiian missionaries is eff
fective among the lower races TO
whose service they have consecrated
themselves.
The number of students has been
less than ever before, and a larger pro-
portion of these than ever have been
unmarried. Every woman, however,
that came into the afternoon instruc-
ton for the wives of students brought
in a child, and all these were OF about
the same age.
There have been an unusual num-
Der of depressing incidents during the
wear. One baby died and one of the
women also, in both cases from the
sudden development of unsupported
brain trouble, and one of the students
is now at the hospital. Though the
condition of the school for the present
wear has not been encouraging, yet
the prospects for the next year are
that the number of students will be
largely increased and all of the new
ones so well versed in English that
hereafter some of the instruction must
be given in that language, and a rad
zeal change in the management of the
school will be effected.
Our board has this year inaugurated
a new work, and holds itself respon-
sible for the support of a system of
free kindergarten schools for children
under school age. The Hawaiian kim
dergarten was opened in Queen Emma
hall, February 1st, and has reached
the limits of its recommendation
forty pupils. The educational work is
not limited, however, TO the children.
The lessons of neatDess, order and
courtesy are equally effective upon the
parents and spectators who gather
every afternoon around the doors
and windows, hour after hour. The
inspiration of this work came
largely through Mr.. f. w. Damon,
whose hopeful spirit in regard TO it
gave US the courage to undertake 1T
| almost solely as a work of faith.
Miss Mary Green, our special mis-
| sionary in Hawaiian work, in her
monthly reports, has given US Gimp
i aes into Hawaiian homes. And we