The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-08-03
(sEetched By an Advertiser Artist. ]

istration will have the best modern
conveniences, seroll-top desks, type
writers, ready reference file, and so
on.
At the end of the mdkdi terminal
line of the building is the dining hall.
Any one who has visited the kameha-
meha preparatory school for boys will
know how attractive and hOmelike
the fittings and furnishings will be;
while the view from the windows
will be more beautiful than any pic
ture from any artists hands, that
adorn the abodes of royalty. Advan-
tage is taken of the sloping ground to
utilize the basement room beneath for
the ironing room of the laundry.
From this lift will take the clothes
to the second story above, where from
wheeled basket they will be dis
tributed to the various rooms. A
projection built of stone, with cement
floors, and extending over to the rear
from the dining hall, furnishes safe
and ample accommodation for pan
try, scullery and kitchen, beneath
which are the store-rOOms. Here
again a dumb waiter saves much
of the labor needful to care for
the daily feeding of so large house
hold. Hot and cold water are fur
nished also for the bathrooms in the
story above. The ample size of the
kitchen, 27 by 81, furnishes room for
the cooking classes, who are here to
be taught not only the cleanliness
that is next to godliness, but the sa-
voriness and tastefulness that make
the table the place of comfort and
cheer that it ought to be in every we'll
ordered home.
Some idea of the size of the build
ing may be had from the figures given
for the double verandas, each so feet
long; and to this length should be
added the widths of the two terminal
buildings, each 80 feet. The rear has
neither veranda nor balcony. The
garden in front will have an extreme
depth of over 100 feet. To secure the
building against dangers from fire,
ample staircases have been provided.
A special reservoir of large capacity,
on the mountain side, will hold a sup
ply ready for any emergency, while
system of stand pipes and hose at
tached, within the building, can be
connected also in few minutes with
pump at the artesian well, where an
engine stands already to be fired up at
a moments notice.
In the upper story the teachers
rooms are over the dining hall and
gymnasium. There are separate Sleep
ing rooms for the girls, each 10 by Il,
on either side of the corridors. In ad-
dition there are hospital wards for
any who may be sick, trunk rooms,
linen closets, and all the needful con-
veniences for the quick dispatch of
work. In fact busy work and not
luxurious ease stands out promi-
nently as the great object of the whole
building. Woman is not regarded as
drudge or a plaything, but as a CO.
worker with man in building up hu-
man society after the divine law.
The whole of womanhOod is here
cared for on scientific principles, that
is, definite object is kept in mind,
and the needful appliances are sup
piled to be used after the methods ap
proved by long experience as we'll as
trained intelligence. The rooms will
be simply furnished, in a style not
beyond what the girls might have in
their own homes. The food also will
be simple, as is the usual Hawaiian
fashion. Miss Ida NJ. Pope, the Prin-