The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-10-20

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. | appeal to every mem
! Der of this Association. Will you per-
sonally and at once secure a twin sub
scriber and send that name with your
own renewed pledge for next year?
The Portuguese room needs to be
supplemented 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
parts of the lower city. Yet we cannot
enlarge unless the extra funds are pro-
vided-nay more, are assured.
l am rejoiced 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 W 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 a bright prospect
that in January one plantation will
lead off in this grand work OF estab
fishing plantation kindergartens. The
expenses of this plantation kindergar-
ten will be considered land JUSTLY
part 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, will
you not use your influence to establish
q free kindergarten on every planta-
ton in the Islands? Every dollar of
dividends we derive brings with it an
ghost of responsibility. We
may 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-
post generous dividends in the bank
this year? And do you realize that a
reservation of fractional part of one
per cent in the total dividend would
leave you scarcely thought poorer,
but would establish firmly a kinder
garten in every sugar village in our
land, and pay the teachers better sal
aries than our Association can af-
ford to do?
Let the annals of this coming year
be written in red ink to commemorate
a mighty stride in this particular di
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. Shall
not the kindergarten hear from that
Shall we not have other en-
lowment funds to follow the two now
in our possession? This largely rests
with us all-not with the president,
nor the treasurer, nor the financial
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-
lowed and we can afford to pay larger
salaries to those who well deserve
hem, we shall offer scanty inducement
% the daughters of our land to choose
1ur work. We shall need to import our
and thus give an element of
Instability to the teaching. Let us
make it worth while for our girls to
ook forward to kindergarten career,
and let them feel that they will be as
we'll paid as other teachers in primary
grades.
Let us open our thoughts to great |
hopes, to great plans, and let us work
steadily to materialize them. Let us
lot wait for this rich man or that gen.
.rous woman to supply our needs-let |
is look to it ourselves, and let us all |
give till we feel it. Let us give our |
lines, our quarters, our dollars, and |
f we can our hundreds of dollars. |
only give, Let us give for the sake of |
he children we love, for the sake of |
he children who have gone from us,
or the sake of the little children who, |
perhaps, have never known love such
IS we give our own.
MABEL WING CASTLE,
Chairman Publication Committee, F.
K. c. A. A.