The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-19
COL. F. W. PARKER
Eminent Educator Speaks Of His
Visit to Hawaii.
WAS A CLOSE STUDENT
Schools and People The Native
Hawaiian-Manual Training.
Annexation Future.
WAS A CLOSE STUDENT
Chicago Times-Herald.)

fit them to become good citizens or the
United States is thorough-goin edu-
cation. / don't mean an education
after the old-fashioned New England |
type for that has signally failed |
among them. They need an education
fitted to their environment and adapt |
ed to draw out their best native quail |
tiles. To my mind they need an edu- |
cation which centers around manual
training and the mechanical arts. For
tunately the government OF the
islands is making rapid strides in this
direction, and / think the natives will
soon be awakened from their present
indifference and Incidence and turned
into active citizens, who not only Will
be proud of their allegiance to Amer
ica but of whom the Americans them
selves may well be proud in turn. AS
for the other inhabitants of the Ha
waiian Islands, | think all of them,
even those not now favorably minded,
will soon adapt themselves to the
changed conditions. The prospects for
the Islands seem to be as fair in what
concerns the attitude and character
istics of the iuha bitants as in what
concerns commercial aud industrial
progress.
ESTIMATE OF COLONEL PARKER.
This is the estimate of Col. Francis
w. Parker, principal of the Chicago
normal school, who returned to this
city last Wednesday, after summer
spent in the recently annexed Islands
Col. Parker had gone to Honolulu on
the invitation of the Hawaiian Govern
ment to deliver a course of lectures to
their summer school held at the cap
ital. He was received by the leading
men of all parties on the Islands and
given every opportunity to gain infor-
nation about the condition of affairs.
With Col. Parker were his wife and
Miss Allen the teacher of kindergar-
ten methods at the normal school. Mrs.
Parker went largely in search Of
health but the Colonel cOnfesses that
the reasons which led him to enter up
on the journey had more to do with
the volcanic structure of the Islands
than with the opportunity to add
more hours of lecturing to the quota
which already stood to his credit after
years work at the normal school. He
brought back with him a magnificent
series of photographs representing the
craters and mountains of all the
Islands IN the group.
MRS. PARKER TAKES PHOTO
GRAPHS.
Mrs Parker, for her part, made
collection of photographs showing th*
people their customs and the scenery
of the Islands. All these pictures
numbering over 200, will be arranged
and presented to the museum of the
normal school. where they will hell
to swell the collection of %, 900 photo
graphs of people and industries, col
Iected largely through the persona
efforts of Mrs. Parker.
Not only through these photograph
will the normal school profit by tn
sojourn of Mr.. and Mrs Parker in tn
Pacific Islands. In d day or two doz
en- big boxes filled with curios am
specimens of the arts and products o
the Islands will reach Chicago, and a
soon as they are unpacked and tn
articles labeled they will be presents
TO the museum.
In the collection are samples OF al
the woods. seeds and shells of tn
Islands. very fine collection of law
specimens. number of 'lels, tn
necklaces which the natives habituali
wear. mats and fans, some OF the rar
and costly tapa cloth, belts or Dana0
fiber, wooden and gourd calaoaShes
baskets of seed and woven baskets, pc
Founders, tapa heaters, stone knivs;
fishhooks stone quoits, native lam
and fbers of all kinds, much used /
the native arts.
LAND SNAILS \ FEATURE.
Then there will be a collection c
pressed ferns and another OF preSSe
leaves. some coffee and bamboo STICK:
a pressed coffee branch, collections {
bird eggs and deer horns, and las
though not least in Mrs Parker's est
nation. a very fine collection of tn
land snails Of the Islands.
All these articles will be made us
of in the work Of instruction done b
the students of the school. and the
will prove to be of material service i
giving clearer ideas than could be OF
tanned in any other way of the import
ant industries and activities Of tn
Islands
Col. Parker is loath to speak of hi
own lecture work in Honolulu, but
is understood from other sources tina
he was given reception Of a char
acter fully to correspond with his fam
as an educator. He not only lecture
three times each day for three week
before the students at the summe
school, but he also gave three puDu
evening lectures each week, Whic
drew out large audiences from a
classes of inhabitants. He was aSke
to confer with the educational burea
of the government in regard to the fl
ture conduct of the state schools, an
he has also prepared a series OF OF
seryations for the use of the Unite
States commissioners, at the reques
of Senator Cullom. With him Their
came to America one of the teacher