The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-14
A M0LOKAI TRIP
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visitors as the party left Kalawao for
Kalaupapa.
4 lunch was served at the guest
house for all. The food, with the men
TO serve it. came from the steamer.
The weather was pleasant all day. with
q refreshing breeze and everybody was
hungry.
a special meeting Of the Board of
Health was held in the office OF Dr..
MouriJz. This was principally FOR the
purpose Of hearing complaints that
any resident Of the settlement might
wish 10 lodge. The grievances were
small and quite unimpCrJanr One ma
tive was rather indignant over the fact
that every member of his family could
not have a full issue Of matches. Theo.
II. Lansing figured out their allowance
and found that father. mother and
children We're getting nineteen matches
day. Just what the children did
with the lucifers was not made plain.
Il was represented that the poi made
from the Maui and Oahu paiai was not
equal 10 the product of MolOkai val
legs. This is true. but the difference
5 due mainly TO the distance the i'm
ported article is carried. There is
satisfaction over the clothing, the beef.
the raLions generally and the new man
agement that was instituted the first
OF this year.
The physicians of the Board. with
the physician guests as spectators, eN-
amined some twenty-nine lepers who
have shown much improvement on
account of the GOto baths and other
treatment. II was decided to bring
ok Of
lulu. If they hold their appearance
there for set time they viii be al
lowed 10 go TO their homes with the
understanding that they are to report
20 the Board of Health at stated per
iOds. 1t is not considered proper 20
use names, but it may be stated that
several men we'll known in Honolulu
SHOW decided betterment Of condition.
The people over there have great faith
in the GOtO JAPANESE treatment and
ii certainly is effective and relieving
TO certain degree The bathing is in
very hot water medicated with the
herb mixture sent from Japan by the
ton. 1t costs $500 a ton and IS fur
nished freely by the Board There are
good private as well as public baths
both at kaulapapa and Kalawao.
At the Bishop home for Girls the
a.
the Boys Home. but the furnishings
and the conditions generally bespeak
the refined touch of gentle woman.
There is in charge here a Mother SUI
periOr, who has been on duty for fiji
teen years and four Sisters. One of
the Sisters, apparently the assistant TO
the Mother, is a beautiful woman, still
young. She has been at the home ten
years. She was asked if she expected
TO go sometime to another post. The
reply was that she hoped to spend all
her life at the Girls Home The girls
here, like the boys at Kalawao, make
their own clothing. Every girl above
say six years, is able to read and
write. They are taught music and
many of them play the organ. piano
and string instruments we'll. The
bare floors in the rooms at the Home
for Girls are scrubbed like the floor
of a New England housewife. After
Chas. r. Bishop had endowed this
home he was dissatisfied with the
plum bling and added $4,000 to his orig
inal gift to have the bathing and like
facilities just what they should be. In
this respect the place is perfect. The
water supply just at this time is not
quite sufficient, but the Beard of
Health will soon have a larger main
and there is plenty of water at the
source of supply, above Kalawao.
One thingNis very much needed at
XalaWaO and it is suggested that Wray
Taylor or some other person who Is
fitted for handling such a matter take
hold. start the ball rolling and pro-
vide the missing article. The piano is
a wreck. 1t has been repaired by
man OF the Settlement skilful in sucn
work until it is mostly repair, with
only trifie of the original left. The
piano has been in service for years and
has neither tone nor tune The girls
who know the notes we'll and who
study and practice are disheartened TO
produce a bee-hiving serenade when
they play. A new piano in the Bishop
Home would be a gift that would give
joy to a whole lot Of people 10 whom
the sunshine of human kindness out
side their own circle is rare light.
The Advertiser will be glad 10 consult
with any person or persons who may
take an interest in this matter.
The man who was for several years
leader of the Kalaupapa band, died a
few months ago. His place has been
taken by Charles Walnut, who learned
music since going to the Settlement.
There are thirteen pieces in the band,
but the instruments are old ana the
men require some training. Professor
Berger, of the Government band, is the
particular patron of the Kalaupapa or
ganization and Will soon have some
new instruments and new music for
them They were very much disap-
pointed that the Professor did not ap-
pear. but the regrets of necessary de-
tenJiOn in Honolulu were gracefully re-
ceived.
A man who visits the Settle
ment can never hear il referred
10 as ''laZeretJe'' without re-
senting the description on the instant.
II is not even an asylum or retreat. Ii
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