The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-20


/ Of soils for different plants. moisture
! etc. The speaker closed with a short
Instructive note on trimming trees.
/ Colonel. Parker spoke to a large and
/ cultured audience in Progress hall last
night on Man and His Environments
| in Nature" He began by saying that
the influence of nature is always a
source of lasting good. True manliness
is the furnishing of manliness to men.
Man may pOllute the imagination or
eXalt it to Heaven. What then must
be his influence upon the child? 1t is
the Old story of environment.
Man is a born lover. Love is the
easiest thing in the world to cultivate.
Salfshness is cultivated systematically.
Children are trained into sOrdid self
ishness by very old methods. Burying
the child with tid-bits, or compliments,
is the first step. The seIfshness learned
then becomes fixed In the Sunday
school the child is rewarded for study
ing the story of love 1t is the same in
the schools. There the child is led to
feast his eyes on the glittering bauble
of per cent. 1t is not learning he is
after, but per cent.
Ambition is to do more good today
than you did yesterday. Other ambi-
ton leads to selfishness.
The old way to treat a child was
f1ogging. Then came bribery. Now
is per cents. Why do we mark? Be
cause there must be some purpose be
fore the pupil you say. Yes, the child
must have something ahead that will
move it; and seIfishness will accOmp-
oh h0t than thin
else. This lack of a sound purpose
shows a failure of our whole system.
We must get out of it. A higher idea
must be aroused
Every child is a born worker. In
the kitchen, the yard or elsewhere,
however young, they want to help. If
I had my way every yard in the world
would be cOnvered over with white
sand. In them the children would
build houses. castles and mudhouses.
Their natural inclination to do some
thing, 20 make something, would find
full expression. Through it the mind,
the soul would be developed and grow.
The best men of the world owe their
education to the farm and work shop.
The aristOcracy of the future will be
an aristocracy of workers [ am glad
10 see D1dnudI Training III the SCHOOIS
of Hawaii. 1t is the beginning of the
foundation Of the prosperity Of ,tte
future.
There is music in the soul of every
child. Every child must be taught to
sing. There is a consonance with ma
ture in it. The brook babbles, birds
sing, and the sea rolls in a rhythmic
swell. The child is part of the great
world of music, moves in rythm, and
must sing. Rhythm perVades every
thing, even the movements of the
body. Calesthenics are necessary. There
the cOnsOnance is again reached.
Music is the most practical thing in
all the world. Tell child Sing at
your work"
Heretofore we have gone on by ira
ditiOn without looking at the child
There was a time when we thought a
child was born in wickedness and must
go through certain processes. We now
know the power of the child in the
early days of constructive activity. But
we Go not yet appreciate the pOssibil-
tiles of the child. We must go fur
ther. The New Testament contains
the most complete doctrine of edUca-
ton of any book in the world. For
three years Christ kept his little class
together. Look at the teaching. Look
at the sermon on the Mount.