The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-10-08

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grounds, have made fittings for schoo
ooms, shops and gymnasium; cal
1rn beautiful calabashes. The tabl
and large chair ia the chapel wer
made in the three shops. In the print
lag shop the boys learn to set type ant
the use Of printing press. Two paper
lare edited and printed at Kamehamehi
school One, Handicraft, which con
tains original matter of teachers ant
pupils, the English of the latter be
Il ing expressed in an amusingly foreign
| manner. The other paper is entitled
Pacific Teacher. Blanks and program!
of all kinds are printed here. Tit
teacher in the tailor shop is a Hawai-
ian educated at Hampton School. Here
is taught cutting and fitting of men:
suits and undergarments.
! All the Kamehameha uniforms are
made here, as well as mosquito nets
bedding, table linen, etc. AS all the
! Kamehameha Schools are lighted by
electricity, the dynamos, engine, etc.
must be carefully attended to. Wiring
| of buildings has been done by Hawai-
ian boys under their teachers. Pump
ing water from artesian well is also
done Thousands of dollars have been
expended on the buildings and machin-
cry of Kamehameha
As an English visitor to the school
exclaimed: You would not see in all
Europe a school so endowed and main
tanned through private philanthropy"
Shops close at 4:30, after which comes
drill two days in the week, accom-
I dsr
coursing lively music Military system
mas done much for these boys in man
illness. They are taught to drill by
themselves, the boys being made Off
GERS for this purpose.
After supper, at $50, study hour be-
gins, and al O'Clock the busy day is
finished, the last sound at Kameha-
meha being Taps" Sunday is a bright
and CHEEKY season. Sunday School is
taught by means of Blakeslee's system
of Sunday school lessons, with often
methods of showing the history
md geography of ancient days and
places, and aids for impressing the
beautiful lessons of the Bible. After
Sunday School there is an intermis>
sion of three-quarters of an hour,
when church begins. There is a choir
Of boy and girl voices, and the sermon
is simple and practical. 1t is a pleasant
sight, that of nearly 300 Hawaiian boys
and girls in the chapel Prayer meet
ing comes in the afternoon, as well as
on Wednesday evening. There is a drill
Sunday afternoon, and the day closes
with singing of hymns and sometimes
stereOpticon illustration of Bible his
tory and people
Science is the gate to many branches
of knowledge, and social and right liv-
ing are reached through it, while OBJ
servations upon animal and flower life
lead the pupils to understand them
selves, and from these they are made
to understand why ones life must have
social purity. After studies and ex-
periments shown at Kamehameha of
the action of the action of tobacco and
alcohol upon body and mind. of inoc-
of the elements of foods and
their effects, the Hawaiian can no long
er sin from ignorance. Should not the
idea of incubation be made a public
fact, in order that the people should
understand the necessity of isolation?
NAOLs W. 10
GUS, because the necessity for it is not
understood. If in India, China and
Japan simple ideas of contagion and
contamination could be taught, whole
nations might be saved.
The Hawaiians are subject to malari-
al fever, often of a typhoid nature,
terminating fatally in native
homes where hygiene and nursing are
not understood, though the "Lomi-Lo-
MI is noted. Years ago, when meas
les and smallpox were epidemic in the
Hawaiian Islands, hundreds of natives
died from bathing in cold water. Hence
the necessity for the teaching of this
subject in schools. Hygiene and nurs-
ing are taught only during the last
year OF the school course, and empha-
sized by practice in the school hospital,
which in its way is quite ample.
place of comfort to the sick, of practice
TO the well.
II is astonishing how skilful Hawai-
ian boys become as nurses. MANY a
fever, some of them dangerous, has
been nursed to the end, and up to this
time not case has been lost, due to
the nursing, as well as the medical at
tendance. Also in the last school year
Is given a course in civics or intelligent
citizenship.
Christianity is impressed upon the
pupil by talks. Practical Christianity
soon shows itself in the lives of both
teachers and pupils 1t is also often
necessary for the teachers to develop
truthfulness and honesty.
This paper, though the result of a
protracted visit to Kamehameha has
not yet mentioned the Kamehameha
Girls School. Here we shall he de-
lighted with the commodious building
ana grounds and the happy faces of
Hawaiian girls. By their appearance
you VIII know they are having an ideal
home training. On Thursday afternoon
you VIII find them ironing in the big
laundry, looking radiant over the niles
OF snowy clothes, which you will con-
slider with a critical eye, and find real
~ beautifully ironed. They do the
housework of this great establishment
COOK and serve excellent meals. wash
dishes and silver, do washing. ironing
sweeping, besides doing their regular
school work. We will come another
day to see their classroom work which
l hear is excellent, as they have ev-
cepuonal teachers. Hawaiian girls are
musical and some of them artistic
Inc girls also have a course in nurs-
ing and hygiene, with hospital prac-
tee in the case of Kamehameha small,
boys. They learn to cut, sew and fit
their own dresses.
What will become of these bows and
girls? The former find no difficulty in
getting work in the trades. and schools
but the girls are more restricted.
Ot these schools, with thoughtful