The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-19


! her name.
1t was in February also that our
hearts We're gladdened by the endow-
ment of 5000 year from the benevo-
| lent kamaaina, Hon. Charles II. Bishop
which, in accordance with his ex-
pressed wish, we devoted to the main
! tanning of the Hawaiian Kindergar-
ten. AS mark of our appreciation OF
! his generosity, Mr. Bishop was made
an honorary member of the Associa-
! tion.
We have other deeds of bounty TO
record. In February Mr.. and Mrs. Du-
mas gave as their contribution twenty
handsome little chairs to the Foreign
Kindergarten, conditioned on an equal
number being supplied by others. Pa
rents of children in private kinder
garten added the money to furnish the
other twenty requisite. / am glad to
state that Mr.. and Mrs. Dumas have
this year pledged half the money ne
cessary to supply the Portuguese room
with these little chairs, and a well
known firm has the refusal of the priv
ilege of paying for the other half. One
of our officers kindly gave her Thurs
day mornings for a considerable pc
riod to playing for the kindergartens,
which would otherwise have Jared Ill
ing in the Japanese Kindergarten in
the spring To Mrs. McStocker the
children are indebted for a large wood
en- swing which has been set up in
the grounds of Emma Hail. The Jap
anese colony gave commendable proof
of their interest in the kindergartens.
They largely supplied the Japanese
Kindergarten, and have established
primary school for the children to en-
ter after they have left the kindergar-
ten. Several entered this school this
fall. We take this opportunity to thank
all our generous friends for their
money or other gifts contributed to
the furtherance of this most helpful
work among the children.
There were a few changes during the
year in the personnel OF the teaching
corps. Miss OZawa, much to our re-
gret, left us in the spring to return to
Japan. Miss Nellie Kahuila Temporal
rily filled her place, and with Mrs. So,
the Japanese helper, bravely shoulder
ed the great responsibility. Miss Boil
ton, from Vancouver, was made an
assistant in the Portuguese Kinder
garten. The Association has lost a
valuable worker in Miss Pires, who
has left this kindergarten to teach in
the Portuguese Mission. This fall Mrs.
Tarbell in the Miller Street Kindergar-
ten has charge of forty-two children,
with the help of Miss Annie Forbes
and Miss Mabel Gilbert. Miss Morris
takes the thirty little Hawaiians, with
Miss Violet Lima and Carrie Naka-
puahi to assist her. They are the only
two of last years helpers who remain
ed with us this year Three of the
young women are taking the normal
training-Miss Bertha Bindt, Miss Nell
lie Kahuila and Miss Flora Smith.
Miss Hattie Kealoha has a position in
a Government school on Kauai. Miss
Alexander retains the Foreign Kinder
garten with it's 81 children, her help
ers being Misses Carrie Bray, Kate
Scrimger and Mabel Carter. IN the
Chinese Kindergarten Miss Snow pre-
sides and is especially fortunate in
having for helpers Misses Fui jim,
Mary Seong and Hattie Aiau, who are
of inestimable aid in training 49 little
plants in the Chinese Child Garden. A
teacher in one of our higher institu-
tions pays the expenses and car fares
of our three Chinese girls, who could
not have gone into the work but for
this benevolence. In the aJpanese
room Miss Kellogg is the new director,
assisted by Mrs. So and Miss Grace
King. There are 30 Japanese children
on the roll.
The numbers are somewhat below
the average of last year, except in a
gain of IA for the Chinese and 5 for
the Japanese kindergartens. Although
the enrolment will fuctuate during
the year, it has on the whole begun
well.
There is training class of 10, be-
sides the directors, who attend that
they may keep in touch with the new
supervisor and trainer, Miss Frances
Lawrence. She comes from Chicago,
the Cook County Normal School This
school is conspicuous for it's consci-
entious effort in search of the best way
of conducting kindergartens, which, as
we all know, are much criticised. 1t is
natural and progressive in the use of
Froebel's principles, and maintains
constant forward movement. Miss
Lawrence is imbued with the spirit
of her teachers, and her methods in
clude great adaptation to the special
needs of this work, continual child
study, an insistance on the play prin-
ciple and disapproval of intellectual
forcing, minimum of required handi-
work in training directors and the con-
stant aim of character building that
discountenances display and precocity.
She asks for great patience in waiting
for results, which like the processes of
nature do not make haste. Miss Law
renee is in touch with her former
teachers, all of whom are deeply inter
ested in the educational problems OF
our country.
There has been a great hegira of our
officers, but the work seems 10 be
holding it's own in spite of the con-
tinued absence of Mrs. Dole, Mrs. Da-
mon, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Hebron, MISS
Hopper and Miss Castle in spite of the
vacation wanderings of others, and In
spite of our unwilling acceptance OF
the resignation of Mrs. Arthur Z.
Wood from the treasurer's office, and
of Mrs. Jordan's resignation from the
committee craftsmanship of superyis-
ing buildings and grounds. Some few
changes have been made in the COM
,nittonr &c will annear In the list on