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


kindergarten, and have established
primary school for the children to en-
Ter after they have left the kindergar
en-. Several entered this school thii
fall. We take this opportunity to thanl
all our generous friends for theil
money or other gifts contributed Il
he fuTtherance 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,
greet, left us in the spring to return tc
Japan Miss Nellie Kahuila tempora.
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 Mel
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 its 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 40 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 benevolenee. In the aJpanese
room Miss kellogg is the new director,
assisted by Mrs. So and Miss Grace
King. There are 80 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 1uctuate during
the year, it has on the whole begun
well.
There is a training class of Is, 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 its 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 a
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 disapproyal of intellectual
forcing. a minimum OF required handi-
work in training directors and the con-
slant 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
esJed in the educational problems of
cur country.
There has been great hegira Of our
but the work seems to be
holding its 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 P
Wood from the treasurer's Office, and
OF Mrs. Jordan's resignation from the
committee Craftsmanship of supervis- |
ing buildings and grounds. Some few
changes have been made in the COM
as will appear in the list on
the back cover of the Year Book soon
to be issued.
Last fall two new committees were
added TO the working force of the As
sociation-the Publication and the
Woman's kindergarten Club. Both |
loQ lO4 lHCll " Cllll5AlCu l1C
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 to arouse enthusi-
asm in the fifteen who heard her talks
The Publication Committee has tried
to keep before the public the progress
of the kindergartens, and among other
doings it issued the notable Woman's
Time. II is deeply indebted to every
body for cooperation.
All the kindergartens took part in
the May Day festival at the grounds
OF Emma Hall. 1t was a three-fold
celebration May party, Froebel
commemoration and a substitute for
the usual closing exercises of the last
not 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. The
band played, the President made
short address, and the groups of adj
miring spectators believed in the kim
dergarten and went away with a feel
ing that in some way they had had a
real dream of animated f1owerbeds and
posies.
So much for the past year. Surely