The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-30

an ArbOr Day in schools as well as fol
| economic purposes, and issue pro
| clamation bespeaking the sympathy
| and co operation OF all classes con
| cerned. In the American states each
| governor and each school superln-
| tendent sends printed programme 70
| every school Of his state, containing
! appropriate exercises for the children
| the morning of Arbor Day being de-
voted to rehearsing the assigned selec
tious In prose aud poetry and to les
sons on the value and beauty OF trees,
shrubs and bowers. The leading poets
ami authors OF America have CON
tributed choice gems in poetry and
prose for Arbor Day use. Oliver
Wendell Holmes has written many
such pieces. For example, he says :
al have written many verses, but the
best poems have produced are the
trees I have planted" Whittier wrote
many poems for Arbor Day:
Give fools their gold. and knaves their
power;
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall.
Who sows the fields or tames the flower,
Or plants the trees, are more than all.
Who bIesses most IS blest, and God and
man shall own his worth
Who leaves as his bequest an added beauty
TO the earth.
On Arbor Day the children are
taught that there is a peculiar pleas
ure in the planting of trees-a pleasure
that never cloyes, like grateful trees,
bring rich, filiaI returns and compen-
safe a thousandfold all the pains they
cost.
Thomas Arnold says 81 would
rather my son should believe the
earth goes around the sun than to
grow up without love of trees, and
shrubs and lowers." Much as 1 ap
preciate trees, there is often danger of
planting them too thick and too near
the house may be harmful. It's all old
proverb, 4" Where the sunlight cannot
come, the doctor must"
In the United States the most beau
tiful ivy is the Japanese, which have
not seen growing in Honolulu, per-
haps because it is deciduous; and yet
it is favorite IN Florida, where ever
green's are found, and where il per-
petual summer. It is spread widely
over the United States. 1t will beau
tifully adOrn many barren walls |
luxuriantly on such buildings as the |
Bingham Church or the Central |
UniOn-to beautiful the latter to |
cover, men say; or that it would make |
the house damp. On the other hand, |
IL makes the house dry; the foliage |
m axes a strong suction pump, contin- |
Tally draining the brick or stone. 1t |
g sometimes objected that 1t would |
iisintegIate the mortar; but the Jap |
anese Ivy is not open to that objrc-
lion, as it adheres with firm, fiat !
pad.
One of the aims of such village
mn 10 n a lnF fnx
L has been said that tho man that
loesu't delight to cherish aud build
Up his own town has no heart in his
BOSOM These societies have done
much to fraterniZe the community
where they exist. The motto of the
swiss COnfederacy should be the
MOTTO of every city and town-"One
Or all aud all for one!n The first aim
f these societies is to improve the
anitary condition of the town or city.
tell US that 10000 deaths
ccur in the United States yearly from
disease; and, il 10000,
hat Is three and one third millions OF
ckuesses, it costs to be sick, and
Osts to die, as viewed in the cold light
political economy. In Memphis,
in 1873, there were 1000
eaths, because IL was the dirtiest aud
lthiest city in the South. Today it
the healLhiest, because there have
cen forty-three miles of Sewers, ,
ushed twice a day by one hundred ,
I'D ninety automatic flushing tanks,
ach twice a day throwing into the
'wers one hundred and twelve gal {
ms of water. L went through the
ty with the sanitary engineer, and
hen he opened the manhOles l Z
IN III not narrative tho cliyhfaSf pIOr
ON any.
In Honolulu you are to be cOngratu-
ted Oh your arLesian wells; on your
Ire and abundant water. An ample
lueduct everywhere implies aud
.cessitates system of sewerage.
an it be that any black sand can
ng receive with impunity the refuse l
such city as Honolulu? Ny visit Q
ere has been too brief to speak dog C
but is not sewerage one of /
IL urgent needs of this beautiful city,
ID what a check to its growth would o
single sea son of pestileuce on &C r
unit of the lack of it. No doubt, in 4
ew of the coral substratum, the ex-
nse would be large; but at no dist a
It day will it not be proved to be q
cessity, and il it must be done, is it o
t true that the sooner the better?
Or the beauty and attractions of
Ouolulu, had read much and often,
Z the reality far exceeds my expec-
lions. Although there are several
ceedingly beautiful parks, 1 ven
re to suggest the wisdom of still au- =
her in the grounds near the Chinese P'
for the benefit OF that ci
ighborhoOd, bOrdeTed by a driveway OF
the outside and the Interior, occu- X
I'd mainly by a lawn for the benefit
the Chinese, japanese, Portuguese
d Hawaiiaus living in that vicinity.
here else in the world have these
rtous DatioDalities been so
III received, and where else
; there been so thorough an
Snowledment of the brotherhood
The human family2 The surest way
and harmOnize all classes
o improve the condition Of all; and
at liberality has been here shown
the natives in the recent erection
Inc kamehameha Girls School by
aries r. Bishop and the unequaIled
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