The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-09-24

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| the lower entrance to Kamehameha
grounds, have made fittings for school
! rooms, shops and gymnasium; can
| turn beautiful calabashes. The table
| and large chair in the chapel were
made in the three shops. In the print
| ing shop the boys learn to set type and
| the use OF printing press. Two papers
are edited and printed at kamehameha
School. One, Handicraft, which con-
tains original matter Of teachers and
pupils, the English Of the latter be-
ing expressed in an amusingly foreign
manner The other paper is entitled
Pacific Teacher Blanks and programs
of all kinds are printed here. The
teacher in the tailor shop is Hawai- /
ian educated at Hampton School. Here
is taught cutting and fitting of mems |
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-
panied by the Kamehameha Band, dis
coursing lively music. Military system
has 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 at 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
original methods of showing the history
and 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 choir
of boy and girl voices, and the sermon
is simple and practical. 1t is pleasant
sight, that of nearly 800 Hawaiian boys
and girls in the chapel. Prayer meet
ing comes in the afternoon, as well as
on Wednesday evening. There is 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-
ulation, 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 e?
Vaccination, too, is considered barbar-
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 maIari-
al fever, often of a typhoid nature |
generally terminating fatally in native
homes where hygiene and nursing are
not understood, though the "Lomi-Lo- |
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, a |
place of comfort to the SICK of practice |
to the well.
1t 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 a case has been lost, due to
the nursing, as well as the medical at
tendance. Also in the last school year |
is given 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 be de-
lighted with the commodious building
and grounds and the happy faces of |
Hawaiian girls. By their appearance.
you will know they are having an ideal
home training. On Thursday afternoon
you will find them ironing in the big
laundry, looking radiant over the piles
of snowy clothes, which you will con-
slider with critical eye, and find real
ly beautifully ironed They do the
homework of this great establishment.
cook and serve excellent meals, wash
n
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 ex-
ceptional teachers. Hawaiian girls are
musical and some of them artistic.
The girls also have a course in nurs-
ing and hygiene, with hospital prac-
tice in the case of Kamehameha small
boys They learn to cut sew and fit