The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-19
KINDERCARTNERS
Graduating Exercises at Queen
Emma Hall.
ROOMS WELL DECORATED
Program of Music and
Closing Addresses.
Duties of a Kindergarten From
Standpoint of Sweet Girl
Graduate.

The graduating exercises of the class
of 1897, Honolulu kindergarten Train
ing School, took place in the Child
Garden, Beretania street, yesterday af-
ternoon. About a hundred people were
present. The decorations were simple,
but most artistic, the most noticeable
effect being the large window, in which
the graduates and kindergarten class
sat- Palms and ferns and trailing
vines were prettily set, and upon the
piano was vase of pink, blue and
white Chinese asters, with jassamine
vine starting from under the vase and
trailing over the side.
The exercises were opened with
prayer by Rev. C. M. Hyde, after which
came two piano solos of Clara Ander-
son-one representing the north wind
and the other the reaping movement
well played by Miss Mary c. Alexan-
der
Miss Minnie A Morris, one of the
graduates, then read her essay on the
Aesthetic Culture in the Kirderg2r-
ten" of which the following are a few
cuttings:
From the most scientific investiga-
lions of the progress of development,
both physical and mental, we know
that development and unfolding of tho
mental faculties begins at an early
period. and that there may be unity
and equality of mental growth. train
ing must begin at the first signs of
awakening.
But what place is occupied by this
doctrine of the sensations which treats
of the beautiful in nature and art in
the great science of mind development,
and why train the senses?
There can be no mental develop
ment, except through the sense of
channels.
Education is enabled to help the
child to pass through various stages of
development in a few years, which
took centuries in the race.
I'VE find in the child, too. the germs
of all the faculties of highly developed
man and no one more pre-eminent
than the aesthetic faculty, or a love for
the beautiful
The reader then dealt with the in
stinct of a child to seek, to grasp the
beautiful, and then proceeded with a
few points on what training will lead
to.
eff now the child hears good. sim
pie music that he can understand, will
not this love for the beautiful lead him
to appreciate the work of the best COM
posers?
Literature is the highest of all arts.
as it's power of expression is the great
est.
with what beauty can unseen
truths, which the child is yet unable to
grasp. be understood, when clothed in
the beautiful garb which good literat-
ure affords.
''The most beautiful book ever writ
ten is the Book of Nature.
"Our ideal of the beautiful is not
revealed to us through a1l-art form,
but as in the whole creation, different
forms which every species of art en-
ploys to express itself, comprises this
one grand ideal which must be kept
pure and chaste in all its forms that
the ideal may be God-like and the
ming up of all truth and beauty in
Gods work"
Miss Morris concluded with the fol-
lowing appeal:
''You that have beautiful yards and
grounds. will you not open them and
invite the children to enjoy them, too,
for what can give greater enjoyment
than to see the children full of delight
and appreciation for Gods work."
An original fairy story, "The Palace
Beautiful" by Miss Jessie Neil, who
read her piece most effectively, was
fraught with beautiful thoughts that
brought pleasure TO all present This