The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-08

of help to our teachers in various ways
for the furthering of their work. Many
moments spent for US in personal help
in fitting up the rooms at different
| times, in repairs to organs and utensils
| for kindergarten uses in many ways.
| For the making and lettering OF kim
| dergarten boxes and painting OF signs,
aud in many other ways which time
| forbids US to mention. 70 all these
| kind donors of material, time and
| strength, which has saved US large
| expense, we extend especial thanks,
assuring them that the smallest SER
vices have been as fully and thor
| Oughly appreciated as any larger one,
| and that each has done its own essen
| tial part in making our years WORK
one of great inspiration and success.
| The great kindergarten apostle said ::
| "Nothing comes without a struggle
and we wish to record here a tribute
| of appreciation to our faithful and un-
firing Supervisor, Miss Eastman, who
has had more to struggle with in car
rying out her part of the work than
many of us are able to realize; also to
the teachers of the various depart
ments for whom this has been an un-
usually hard year, since, in addition
to their regular teaching duties, re
quiring large outlay of strength and
nerve, they have been faithful and
earnest pupils themselves in the train
ing class that they might thereby be
better fitted to carry on the great work
that lies before them, through these
little children, for humanity. And
we wish to include the several assist
ants as we'll, who have done all in
their power in kindergarten and class
room to make the work a success for
us and for themselves. We realize
that for all these there has been q con-
slant call for much personal sacrifice
of time and strength, which we most
thoroughly appreciate and thank them
for. 1t has been growing conviction
on our part that the most important
factor IN our present work lies in the
training class room.
There have been many obstacles
and hindrances to the carrying out of
this work as fully and complety as we
could have wished; but a good degree
of progress is being made in it, and
we believe that the course will prove
to have been one of great benefit, not
only to the pupils who are now taking
it, but to all the children who are to
come under their influence in the
future, either in the kindergarten or
this training is of as much Importance
in the preparation of women for
mothers as for kindergartners.
Froebel said that "In the children
lies the seed corn of the future" and
that the destiny of nations lies far
more in the hands of women and
mothers than in the possession of
power" How important then that
we should, as he says, "Cultivate
women who are the educators of the
human race, else the new generation
cannot accomplish its task"
Are we beginning to realize the i'm
portance of this training of our daught-
ers and sisters? The great discoverer
of this system of education has passed
on, "hut his works do follow him."
One of his biographers, the Baroness
Won HarenhOlZ Bulow said that, ''In
spite of the slight understanding of his
idea that Froebel found in his cOntem-
poraries, he was thoroughly convinced
that the time for it would come" "If
three hundred years after my death
pletely established, according to its
idea, L shall rejoice in heaven" he
said to her once when she was lament
ing over it's slow and imperfect adj
vance. Not fifty years of that three
hundred are yet passed, but the leaven
of his thought is already working in
many quarters OF the globe, more
rapidly perhaps than he could have
dreamed. It is with US, now, to follow
and take up his work, not only in the
but in the training class
as well. Let him speak to us today,
as to those who were once his pupils
he spoke, 'Out of his OVERLOOKING love |
of humanity, of the helplessness of |
children exposed to all harms by |
the arbitrary way in which they are |
but whom God has entrusted |
to the female sex to be moulded into !
true men and at the same time into |
children of God, to be led back con-
came FORTH And then he further |
the great responsibility !
that was imposed upon woman as |
educators of the human race, a respon-
sibility doubled in our day, whose |
problems are so difficult to solve that
he male sex alone is not able to solve
Them. In speaking of the kinder
yarten work itself he tells US that
the A B G of things must precede
he A B G of words and give to the
words distractions their true found
Ition. It is because the foundations
all so often in the present time that
here are so few men who think indie
We do not know what the coming
rear has in store for US, but we feel
hat it is rich with promise and we
arnestly hope that many Of our
,oung women just stepping on to the
threshold of life may be inspired to
ultivate themselves for their God
.iven work. We want our training
lass to go on, which it cannot do un-
ess we have the pupils for it. The
curse OF the present class will be
ompleted at Christmas time, and we
rust that between now and then
here will be some who will be ready
o help in the formation of new class
Or the opening year, next January.
This work for the children is a field !
where earnest consecrated Christian
fort in its broadest sense will bios
ON out into rich fruition. It is char
cter of the highest standard that is
eeded in our Undergraduates.
To those who are so gener-
uSlY supporting our work and |