The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-05
FREE KINDERGARTENS
Report CT the Charmen Of Various
Committees.

Those persons who are interested
in the work of the Free Kinder
gartens, which are being carried on
in so successful a manner by the
ladies of Honolulu, will be most
Rratiied to learn that the work of
last month was the best since the
beginning two or three years ago.
The chairmen Of the various
committees met in the parlors Of
Central Union Church yesterday
morning, and reported on the work
of the several departments which
were assigned to them to answer.
Mrs. Fred Lo~rey reported on
the foreign kindergarten. There
are at present sixty-one pupils en-
rolled, and the department is in
very prosperous condition.
The Hawaiian department has
twenty-six pupils, and is doing
some very good work. Mrs. J. T.
Waterhouse is chairman Of the
committee that has for its work the
overseeing of the Hawaiian depart
ment.
Mrs. o. H. Gulick reported on
the Japanese department. There
are thirty pupils enrolled, and each
are contributors toward the sup
port of the woIk-a thing that is
only done in this one department.
The Japanese are working hard
and show that they are more than
willing to help themselves along
They are very much interested and
very earnest in the work that is set
before them to do.
The Chinese school, with thirty !
pupils, is very prosperous, and |
shows, according 10 the report of |
Mrs. F. w. Damon, a decided |
tendency towards an increase.
The Portuguese department !
seems to be the most prosperous of |
the five. According to Mrs. Hob
ron there are ffty-six pupils en-
rolled, and these, on account of |
the limited space, are very much |
crowded. There is immediate de- |
mand for more room. Applica-
tons are made every day, and |
pupils are turned from the door
not because there is no inclination
to get as many as can be accom-
modated, but simply because there |
Is not a bit of room left.
There exists also a private mis- |
sion on Hotel street that is really |
doing kindergarten work. This |
school is under Mr.. Frank Damon's |
care, and is taught by Miss Stet-
son. Hawaiian and Japanese
children compose the majority of |
the pupils who attend. Japanese
women with their babies are in the |
habit of standing out on the street
and watching the work that is car
ried on inside, so interested are
they.
The members of the various COM
mittees are very much gratiied to
learn of the interest taken in the
free kindergarten work by persons
on the other islands. 1t is almost
certain that a free kindergarten
will be established in Hilo in the
near future. Kohala is another
place that has made manifest its
interest in the work. In most all
of the applications that have been
made there is a question as to the
support that such an institution, if
started In such and such a place,
would receive from the parent in
stItution here.
The work of the free kindergar-
tens, while it is appreciated by a
great many people, is sighted by a
great many others who, if they only
recognized the importance it sig
mites, would willingly lend a help
ing hand.
If there are any who are waiting
to hear of the success of the work
before they lend a helping hand,
these may have every assurance
that the women who control the
different departments were never
more grati6ed than at the present
time.