The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19

suffered or perhaps, l should say, the
pupil Specialists are prone to make the
subjects disinterestingly mere detail; or
to qualify their statements until they
lose their force and stimulating effect.
Then, too, teachers are apt to feel that
natures things must be personified or
held up as wonders. 1t is very good TO
bring in personality for the purpose CT
driving home a point or making 1t I'M
pressive, but in general natures things
do not invite the ability to talk, or the
element of personality. Neither IS 1t
necessary to conffne ones self to the
wonderful tendencies of flowers to eaten
flies, nor of the tendency for flies. to imi-
tate humble bees in color and rabbits 20
create interest.
The gist of it all is that everything
has something to tell, some story or his
/ tory, and we will endeavor to hear 1T
speak.
NATURE WORK AND ART.
Miss May Laughlin's paper on Ma
ture Work and Art was largely a sug
gestion of fit subjects for study in the
line of drawing ana coloring. 1t was
as follows: ,st
A desire for nature study is constantly
increasing in the schools. The question
then arises as to the best way of max
ing use of the many lessons which Moth
er Nature holds for u.s. as to- the manner
of our Interpretation of her teachings.
and, in turn, of the child's interpreta-
ton for himself
Nature study means a great deal more
than the mere act of reading about
things, looking at them, and telling the
child that such and such statements are
true. The child must observe and ana
lyze for himself, have an impression
made upon all his senses-not alone upon
his sight and hearing as in "the good
old days"-and then he must strive to
make permanent this impression by all
the modes of expression possible to him.
I contend that nothing in this direction
is more potent than the use of the cray
on and the brush. Thought and action
are thus united, and, step by step, the
translated impression becomes individual,
definite and lasting.
The little child, just entering one of
our Honolulu schools must first of ALL
learn to recognize lovingly the things
Immediately about him, as well as to
perform such action as those things sug-
gest. We must cause him to see, and to
make his own, the divine beauty of HUI
man things which are his natural BIRTH
right. In this sunny clime,s where the
earth is decked with so lavish a hand
the teacher has exceptional opportuni-
ties in this direction. l give below a
list of some of the many ever-present
possibilities in nature study:
PLANT LIFE.
Mango. tree, fruit; guava, fruit and
leaves breadfruit, fruit and leaf; taro,
single plant. bunch of taro roots and
stalks, taro field, ETC.; rice, plant in diff
ferent stages of growth, rice field ETC.:
sweet potato; cocoanut, tree and fruit:
papaia, tree and fruit, two kinds of
flowers, carrot, beet, pepper turnip let
tuce, string bean, radish. onion, tomato
most of these grow in the children's
gardens not only the vegetable, but the
plant itself should be drawn; corn. SUI
gar cane plant, field, etc.; orange, fruit
and leaf; fig, fruit and leaf; grapes, fruit
and leaf; watermelon; familiar ferns:
lauhala, tree; royal palm; umbrella tree;
banyan; monkey pod. tree and flower;
tamarind, tree, flower and fruit; cotton.
plant. flower and cotton ball; coffee.
spray of leaves and coffee berries; pine
apple, plant and fruit banana, tree.
flower and fruit: sorghum, pond lilies:
various Towering vines; sunf1ower, plant
and flower HIBISCUS, leaf and flower;
nasturtium leaf and flower; flower leis;
narcissus Chinese lily); algeroba. tree
and beans; crimson creeper golden
shower, flower and leaf: mulberry plant
and berry; oleander, flower and leaf.
pomegranate, fruit and leaf: bougainvil-
liza; ponciana regia
ANIMAL LIFE.
Bee. three kinds of bees. various
stages of life, bees getting honey from
the flowers, etc; caterpillar. cocoon and
butterfly; common house fly; ant, various
stages of life, ants engaged in different
occupations, etc; chickens, rooster, hen
and little chickens; duck, duck walking
and swimming, Waikiki duck pond;
goose; turtle; rabbit: turkey; goat: frog;
toad; horse; dog; pig; rat; mouse: cat;
donkey loaded with bananas; mules,