The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-06
Oppo rtunitiessOffered Them in
the kindergarten.
INFLUENCINGsFUTURE GRANDMAs
What May be Done for the Nation.
Childish Minds Early Taught to
seek Proper Paths-Careful Work
as Well as Constant Prayer.
(Concluded.)


high an educational standard of ad-
mission from them as is being re
quired more and more now in Ameri-
ca, but we believe that if FrOebel's
idea is good for any part it is good for
the whole race, and therefore may be
adapted to this part Of it, which is yet
in the childhood period of develop
ment.
We desire then, as soon as prac-
ticable, to make the normal class Ger.
tificate passport of admission TO our
future training class AS educational
work advances in Hawaii we hope
that higher standards may be develop
ed along the line of our especial
branch of it, but we must have
patience-remember that Rome
was not built in q day.
Our training class finished it's first
wear. work at Christmas term, 1895.
It is at a standstili just now, but the
vital Importance OF, 1t calls for its
early resnm ption, not only that 1T is a
necessary factor to the success of the
kindergartsns, but because we feel as
never before bow much may he Done
for this Hawaiian race through it's
agency. With this end in special
view va are now considering how
best to accomplish it and the others as
well.
Much earnest thought has been be-
slowed upon this matter, and out of 1T
has come the conviction that this
work for the girls would better De
done in connection with educational
work at the seminaries, where 1t is
practicable.
under protecting Influences during
their training 10 ensure the best re-
suits for them and for their practice
work in the kindergartenS.
It is essential also that the main
effort of the trainer be concentrated
upon them, and we believe that this
can be more fully omplished in the
seminary environment than outside
of it.
If this work is done in the seminary
it will lend an important influence
to the other work there. That the
trainer will be q very helpful membe
of the faculty goes without saying
Being with the girls in their homes,
she will feel personal responsibility
about them as they go TO and from
their work each day, for she will be-
supervisor OF the kIndergartens. in
which they will act as assistants
Thus she will be able to shield them
in some measure by her presence or
her influence from the insults from
White-Skinned, but dark-hearteu, men
which they are too often subJec' Ell TO
as they walk through our streets. She
cannot remove these mptatlons, put
through the opportunity OF ner daily
life she can help them To resist and
overcome what they cannot avoid.
We might mention other reasons why
the INTERPRETATION of this training
work into the seminary curriculum
will be of. inestimable advantage III
the working out of the Hawaiian
problem that confronts US there, but
we do not need. Enough has been
said to invite thought, and We are all
of one mind as to the desired eno: we
hone it may be proved by actual ex-
perience some day.
The natural place for the inception
of this work a. part OF the euuca-
cationRl scheme for Hawaiian. girls
would seem TO be at the kamenameha
Girls School, for it would be most
fitting conclusion of the graded system
that is b+ ing inauguratei there. The
Uounp women could pass from the
normal into the training GLASS room
i'm the natural order of things and for
the Indispensable practice work of the
conrse surely the thickIy populated
district of could furnlsh mate
rial enough for - kindergarten annex
which might be established within
the spacious grounds Of the seminary.
We do most earnestly hope aud pray
I
oiers of that great institution Will
realize the paramount Importance OF
this branch OF work for HaWallans,
and that no monument OF wood or
wood or stone can be IS l suing or OF
as great moment to any country as
the preservation OF the l1fe-hlood or
the nation. What we 10 for eh15 rem
nant of - most interesting aud love
able people must be done speedily,
N f1O
hands OF that magnificently endowed
antarnrise at Kamehameha as In no
other
That place Is too remote, perhaps,
from our kindergarten work IN Homo
lulu to be available as supply Tor
our needs on account of the expense
of daily transmission by car OF the ten
or twelve assistants whom We could
use ia our various departments; and
there are other ObjecJions Also, but We
hone TO see al independent work
poinU on there a. All early Jay
which will be a great blessing
to the present generation OF JounS
women and TO the coming generations
in general by the uscessAry enlarge
ment of the kindergarten WORK III
that neighbOrhOod.
This o2nuot Os done too soon TO
,,aat the exigencies of the case.
A AN adjunct to The Free Kinder
oarten work, Kawaiahao Seminary,
on account of its central location, rs
the most practicable place for the
estsbIishment of our traiuing class.
The pupils could more readily and
without e.pspTe the 5eA city wh 11 t6ey
1-n,1Id Act "a assistants, and the train
1vho would also be our superior,
,,id more profitably attend 10 that
Ench of her work. Is Is possible
Path that the pupils who gr aduate from the
tn~o. 49, at Kam-hameha Will be
nn O to come afterwards to KA