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

Last fall two new committees were /
added to the working force of the As
sociation-the Publication and the !
Woman's kindergarten Club. Both |
had for their charge TO enlighten the /
community in kindergarten matters, |
the one through the press, pamphlets, |
etc. the other through class Work. |
Mrs. Dumas was unable to continue her |
class Throughout the year, but her |
work has done much 10 arouse ehJhusI-
asul in the fifteen who heard her talks. /
The Publication Committee has tired !
to keep before the public the progress
of the kindergartens, and among other |
doings it issued the notable woman |
Time. 1t is deeply indebted TO every |
body for cooperation.
All the kindergartens took part IN |
the Nav Day festival at the GROUNDS
of Emma Hall. II was a tnree-Ioid
eelebration-a May party, Froebel
commemoration and SUBSTITUTE LOT
the usual closing exercises Of the last
hot days in June. All the little folks
were happy. and sang and marched
and danced, ate cake and drank straw
berry water with great delight. Inc
band played, the President made
short address, and the groups or ad-
hiring spectators believed in the kin
dergarten and went away with a reel
ing that in some way they had had
real dream of animated tiowerbeds anu
posies. CT,
the annual business meeting is the
time for lis to consider the needs or
the Association and the lines of future
work. First of all we need knowledge,
then interest, then enthusiasm. KnoWl-
edge of the work will bring interest,
and interest will wax into enthusiasm.
Then when we, the members, are en-
thusiastic in the work, we shall eacn
do our best to inoculate others with
our shirt. Then the work will be
popular, of the people, and must push
on. Through an enthusiastic Assocl-
alton we shall reach an enthusiastic
uublic. and our treasury will easily De
full to overlooking. Then our Work
will widen. and ten times three hum
dred children may know the happiness
of culture in the Child Garden.
Next after enthusiasm we need WORK
all along the line. What easier method
of doubling our subscriptions can we
ask than for each to give twice as
much as last year? The next best
thing or rather a deed that should go
hand in hand with our own increase
in giving. is for each to find just one
other new subscriber for the amount
we each give. l appeal to every mem
her of this Association. Will you per
sonally and at once secure twin SUD
scriber and send that name with your
own renewed pledge for next year?
The Portuguese room needs to be
sunnIemented by another; the Palama
district is stretching out longing hands
for a kindergarten there; WAIKIKI,
Punahou and Upper Nuuanu are IN
need, to say nothing of the crowded
uarts of the lower city. Yet we cannot
enlarge unless the extra funds are pro-
vided-nay more, are assured.
am reioiced to say that since the
above was written the Palama Kin
dergarten has been assured an exist
ence for this year at least, through the
generosity of some of our friends.
Another pressing department OF the
work is before us, that of plantation
kindergartens. You are all more or
less familiar it'll plantation con-
ditions, and you need not be told OF
the sore need for care that the little
children are in, the children under
school age There is bright prospect
that in January one plantation Will
lead off in this grand work OF estab-
fishing plantation kindergartens. The
expenses of this plantation k1ndergar-
ten will be considered (and JUSTIFY
mart of the running expenses OF the
plantation, to be paid as necessarily
as the managers salary or the rent OF
the cane fields. This, too, is work FOR
every person to share. We all live by
sugar. directly or indirectly Now, VIII
YOU not use your influence to establish
a free kindergarten on every planta-
ton in the Islands? Every dollar OF
dividends we derive brings with 1T an
attendant ghost of responsibility. we
NAV refuse to admit it, but the pos
session of money entails obligations.
Does your father, your husband, your
son, your mother or your sister de-
posit generous dividends in the bank
this year? And do you realize that
reservation of a fractional part of one
per cent in the total dividend would
leave you scarcely a thought poorer,
but would establish firmly kinder
garten in every sugar village in our
land, and pay the teachers better sal
aries than our Association can al
ford to do?
Let the annals of this coming year
be written in red ink to commemorate
mighty stride in this particular d1-
rection.
Yet another thing we hope for. More
than one or even two OF our leading
business men have reaped their dollars
by the hundreds of thousands. Snail
not the kindergarten hear from that
money? Shall we not have other en-
dowment funds to follow the two now
IN our possession! MS IdiS elS L0StS
with us all-not with the president,
nor the treasurer, nor the financial
secretary The financial burden is too
great for two or three, or even for four
to carry, but it will be only a straw's
weight TO each shoulder if we all lift
our little share.
Until every kindergarten is well en-
dowed and we can afford to pay larger
salaries to those who we'll deserve
" innnPpnnnt
to the daughters of our land to choose
our work. We shall need to import our
directors, and thus give an element OF
instability to the teaching. Let us
make it worth while for our girls to
look forward to kindergarten career,