The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-06-29
Two Received Diplomas
Yesterday.
STUDENTS OF FR0EBEL
Honolulu Free kindergarten Training
Glass Graduating Exercises
Are Held.

| The graduating exercises of the Ho-
nolulu Free kindergarten Training
Glass, which were held yesterday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock at the Henry and
Dorothy Castle Memorial Kindergar-
ten School. were of an interesting char
acter and introduced quite new phase
in the results of educational and nor
NAL training among the various nation
alities of Honolulu.
The picturesque little hall used by
the children of the kindergarten was
pleasantly decorated with flags OF
Great Britain, United States, Portugal
and Japan. over the arched doorways
and festooned upon the windows Wer4
masses of trailing mai e, which re.iey ID
the interior with a warmth of Gollr.
The piano was covered with flowers and
Wreaths.
| Miss Frances Lawrence, assisted hy
Miss Sprague, both of the Trainng
| School, received the visitors. The
training class, consisting of about d
dozen young women, among whom were
| Americans, HaWaiians, Chinese urG
japanese, was seated in two rows Op
/ posite the entrance. The appeara ~,
| of so many natlonalitieS in a elias, 90!
the kind exhibited to a marked deg .c.'
| the diversity of the educational sys I'm
| of Honolulu.
These young women are undergDng
a course Of instruction to prepare them
for taking charge of classes of ''ou:. 9
children to be educated in kindergarten
methods.
The two graduates who received GER
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| of Mrs. G. Nj. Hyde were Helen Eaha-
| leahu and Alice Kong. The former in a
| Hawaiian and the latter Chinese.
| Miss Kong was dressed in her Chine
costume, but otherwise seemed L. l,aN a
dropped all the general CHARACTERISTICS
of her race. She was as active as any
girl in an American boarding scnool
| Her reading from "Timothy's Quest,
| by Wiggin, was a revelation 70 hes
auditors. and she gives promise o. dong
much good among little children
Miss kahaleahu rendered a vocal 30
10 in very pleasing manner.
The address to the graduates was he
| liVered by the Rev. w. NJ. Kincaii
who spoke upon Ideals" He '!walt
upon the visions of youth, when the
heart Is moved most passionately by
ideals. The faculty of vision. he said
is fresh in youth, and every great move.
ment in history has been done by
youtntul persons. speaking OF the
events of this century, he said that 1t
has been toI,. by prophets that at the
end of the twentieth century that the
Orientals and africans would roll a
flood of barbarism over the civilized
world until there was not a vestige
left of 1t. This is what the mind proph-
cts have seen in the future. and tn re
was reason in II. 1t is because OF the
national exhaustion which always fol-
lows great periods of progress in the
civilized countries. He spoke long o.
duty and gave some advice TO the
young LADIES about to enter the world
with new responsibilities.
The following is the program as car
ried out:
prayer ..,,',,..,,.','...ReV , j. u hay
Piano Solo-La Lisonjeira..
Observation-Disclosures. G. Chaminade
Cornelia B. Hyde.
Reading-From Tlmothy's Quest.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .Wiggin
Alice Kong.
Vocal Solo-O Fair Dove! o Fond
Helen Kahaleahu.
Address ........,.. Rev. w. M. Kincaid
Chorus-Go, Pretty Rose .,... Marziala
Training Class.
Presentation OF Certificates.
Mrs. c. NJ. Hyde.
Address to the Class. Frances Lawrence
Benediction ..............R Rev. j. G. Hay