The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-07
SOME CORRECTIONS.

mex Leprosy?" This contains so very
many inaccuracies that it is almost
doubtful whether the writer ever was
what is claimed The whole tendency
is to exaggerate and to do as much
harm to the Islands as possible.
To show the spirit in which the ar
ticle is written, within few lines of
the opening the statement is made
that on nearing the Islands the au-
thor chad a clear view of the PENN
sula and town of Kalaupapa'-"th
largest leper settlement" leaving 1t to
be inferred that leper settlements are
many, though the actual statement is
not so made Another statement is
that after 1865, 1T became the pain
full duty of the Marshal and Board of
Health to make repeated voyages
around the Island (sic) and collect the
victims" In describing the parting of
the lepers and the non-lepers, this Ian
guage is used, "kissed the clustering
bloated faces" Then comes brilliant
piece of Imagination. 1t is said: ION
leaving Honolulu l was advised by a
friend to take my own bed linen and
towels on the kinau no definite rea-
son being given except that natives Of
ten used the state rooms" Who the
mythical fool friend may have been
it is hard to guess. But on the Kinau
or any other boat of the Wilder or
Inter Island lines, everything about
the cabins is scrupulously clean, and
clean linen and towels are supplied
whenever there is change of passen-
gers, even if it should occur half
dozen times during the voyage, and
one no more thinks of taking one S
own towels than one would think of
taking ones own cup and saucer.
What the Hawaiian Government tea
cher wanted was private yacht to
sail in.
With such a start as this we may
not be surprised at a further variety
of Measurements. According to this
brilliant observer the Hawaiians are
not, fitted morally or intellectually for
social intercourse with respect table for
eigners here" There are as many
classes of Hawaiians as there are of
Foreigners, and an Hawaiian gentle
man or an Hawaiian lady is the social
equal of an American or a European,
and is so treated. The Speaker of the
House of Representatives is a Hawa-
iian, so are several of the members.
At entertainments Hawaians are al
ways present. A well educated Ha-
waiian is evidently the superior of the
Cosmopolitan writer, he would not
stoop to tell such barefaced untruths.
This teacher" has a native assist
ant, who is considered a model for a
Hawaiian women, and yet she is scar
cely more than half civilized'-"she
knows nothing of cooking except to
roast fish in the ground and boil beef
over hot reading, writing,
and very little arithmetic" is all she
knows.
"A large proportion of the Hawaiian
teachers come from the seminarIes
where they receive a very fair Gram
mar school education, with some High
school studies. They receive regular
home training, are taught to cook and
to sew, and have over and over again
proved themselves good housewives.
The editor of this journal has often
been the guest of Hawaiian homes,
where the wife of the family has been
school teacher. Everything has been
scrupulously clean and tidy, the cook
ing has been good and the household
well conducted In fact he has seen
the homes of some white men which
were not nearly as clean nor as well
conducted. Statements of this kind
made in the Cosmopolitan are clearly
malicious, or are based on complete
lack of knowledge.
The Hawaiian Government teacher
next goes into the subject of leprosy
next goes into the subject of leprosy
in the schools. He visits them. He
found the teachers wearing gloves in
the school room and using va
rious precautions against contact
with the children. If any one
will go through the schools he
will find this untrue. Of course he
had lepers in his school, and he had
lepers living next door 10 him, and
he tells about them in language which
is lurid. The case next door" was one
where the Limbs were gone, and only
bloated head and trunk remained"
Other cases are reported in language
which one is surprised to see in a
magazine of the character of the Co.'S