The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-30
WHAT INSPECTION DOES
ACTUAL DETAILS IN ONE ms
PECTUR's WORK.
The Cordial Cooperation of the People
When Good Sense and Tact is Shown.
Race characteristics.

The sub-inspector who does his duty
thoroughly comes into intimate con-
tact with the domestic and family life
of the people of his apana and the fact
that there has been so little friction
between inspectors and people is a Won
derful tribute, alike to the tact and
good sense of the inspectors and the
cheerful cooperation and good sense of
the people
A sub-inspector beginning his second
inspection of the day, yesterday after
noon called first at a Chinese place, u
store and dwelling. The proprietor,
his wife and family responded cheerful
ly to the roll call. The children were
all brought out so that the inspector
could see them. A Chinese lad of IA or
Is who did not live there, but who had
come to spend the Chinese New Year
holidays with his friends presented the
card he had received from the inspector
of the apana where he had resided en-
dorsing his application for a permit to
change his residence It was explained
to him that this was not a permit but
an application for a permit and that
he must go to the Committees head
quarters for the permit, and in this re-
quirement he cheerfully acuuiesced.
There were two or three other Chinese
q.
These all gave their names and their
residences and the names of the sub
inspectors to whom they reported. A
tour through the labyrinth of rooms i'm
the place showed everything in order,
while the yard showed evidence of re-
cent cleaning done at the suggestion Of
the inspector.
In another Chinese place the head of
the household showed evidence of bibu-
lous celebration of the Chinese New
Year, and responded with much the
same effusive politeness and maudlin
good nature to the inspectors rallying
about shamshu that a Caucasian would
under the same genial eXhileration
Among the large Portuguese families
the children gathered around the ms
pector and seemed to look on it as
quite an event to be included in a roll
call with their parents. The whole ia
mily took keen delight in the prompt
ltude and pleasure with which the
| little tots, scarce able to walk or talk
watched for their names to be called
so that they might initiate parents and
older brothers and sisters i'm answering.
Boys who were al play on vacant lots
when the inspector called at their
homes, followed him up on his rounds
to have themselves marked on the list
\ as present
Everywhere was evidence both of a
Willingness on the part of the people
/ to improve conditions, and of a SEN
sible and hearty cooperation between
them and the inspector. Here a vault
had been moved to a new place where
! the earth was fresh and uncontami-
mated. There one had been moved
merely because in its original place it
had been so near a neighbours window
as to be unsanitary for his bedroom
A drain in another place had been lined
with stones upon the suggestion oe tie
sub-inspector.
Everywhere yards had been cleaned
up and the trash burned The liberal
use of quick lime and fresh earth was
in evidence everywhere. Inside the
houses there was evidence of a whole
some regard for cleanliness and good
housekeeping. To the eye accustomed
to the dainties of fine porcelain, cut
glass silver ware and the harmonious
accompaniments of such things in
kitchens and chambers, where servants
are numerous, houses devoid of these
seem bare and cleanliness and neatness
have not as elaborate a setting. But
there was abundant evidence eve ~
where manifested in the characteristics
of race and humble life, that these
things existed. Among the Portuguese
there was a furnishing up of the pic
lures of saints and of the Holy family
and other ornaments and ornamental
ton. Among the Hawaiians in better
circumstances there was if possible. an
added freshness to the spotless linen
and gaily colored counterpanes on the
wide koa bedsteads which are the pride
of Hawaiian housekeepers. Among the
Chinese, If one could accustom ones sell
to their ideas of the juxtapostion of
household arrangements, there was lit
tie with which fault could be found.
What an inspection of this apana has
worked and shown has doubtless beer
worked and is shown in hundreds OF
others.
kauai .ZENS.