The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-06
CLOSING
EXERCISES
Yesterday a Proud
Day for the
Parents.
GIRLS A CREDIT
TO TEACHERS
kawaiahao Seminary Pupils Make
Fine Showing in Closing
Entertainment.


Seminary were witnessed yesterday
morning by the fond and proud pa
rents of. the hundred young girls and
little ones who acquitted themselves
with great credit in the entertaining
numbers of the excellent program. BY
tation room of the Seminary building
was filed with the friends and parents
of the girls, and the program began
with the hymn, "Hosana Me Ka,'' sung
in the Hawaiian language by the pu-
pills, who were all prettily dressed In
white.
The hymn was followed by the re-
peating, in perfect concert, of the
fifty-third chapter of Isaih, and a
beautiful chant Hear Our Prayer"
the solo part being sung by Miss
Louisa Pahi in a sweet, clear soprano,
and the chorus was a splendid blend
ing of a hundred voices. excellentIy
trained. and many of them OF unusual
quality
The singing of the pupils is deserv-
ing of much praise. and credit is due
Miss Rice, who has the musical de-
partment under direction Miss Rice
has had the girls in training only four
months, and the splendid work she
has been doing was shown with muen
effect in the entertainment yesterday.
The Seminary was fortunate in hav-
ing secured her even for the short
she. I,o
leaves for the Mainland next week.
as she herself has had the advantage
OF the best vocal training and is both
by ability and pleasing personality,
excellently qualified to teach.
After the chant a prayer was offered
by the pupils in the native language
the words being repeated in concert,
concluding with the chanting of the
Lords prayer in Hawaiian.
DR.. Bingham then offered a prayer
appropriate to the occasion, and Miss
Nettie Chamberlain who was many
years ago a teacher in the Seminary
was invited to examine class of the
older girls as to their knowledge of
the Bible. She questioned the pupils
in the Hawaiian and English Ian
guages, and requested their answers in
both languages, in order. she explain
ed, that their parents might see that
IHty hItW DOtu y
Some pIeasantries We're exchanged be-
tween Miss Chamberlain and the Chi
nese pupils, who, at her request. gave
their answers in Chinese as well as
English. At the conclusion of the ex-
animation Miss Chamberlain said that
the class deserved credit for being
well informed in Biblical history. as
shown by their prompt and correct an
swers to her queries.
no dana rim n
of some thirty odd little girls, all in
pretty white dresses, then sang several
of their morning songs in a beautiful
! blending of soprano and alto voices
and cordial applause followed each
song.
The next number was the represen-
| tation by twenty girls of the two great
oceans and their islands. A greer
badge, lettered in white, across tbs
shoulders, showed the island or ocear
that each pupil represented, the Pacific
and Atlantic oceans being represented
! by the girls at the ends, and Cuba
Manila and Sandwich islands, etc, be
| ing represented by the girls in tht
half circle. Each pupil reeited tn,
merits of the island she championed
and dialogue between them compared
the productions and advantages o
each. The somewhat lengthy speeches
-
ton, and the twenty girls We're warmI.
applauded at the conclusion.
The primary department followed
with more songs and recitations. one o
the recitations which delighted the pa
rents being the story of the Thre
Little Chestnuts, one of which ha'
the i'll luck to be swallowed by boy
A sailor song and boat song fol
lowed the little ones illustrating tn
same with graceful gestures and mo
lions of the body.
The senior class gave selection
from Hiawatha, standing beside illus
trations drawn by themselves on tn
schoolroom blackboard, the drawing
showing that art has not been neg
Ieeted in the Seminary.
Little Mary Desha, beautiful littl
| Hawaiian girl, won the hearts of a
present with her pretty recitations. on
of them relating the story of the rot
| ms wedding. and another, The Frog
Way
After this followed the song by tn
seniors. Sweetheart, Sigh no More.
and the recitation by a pretty, naiv
girl. little F'ui 10y.
Lily Kong. one of the older pupil
told of the troubles of the schoolgirl
complaining of the hard lesson of CO
Iumbus she had to study for the MOI
row. and how She did not know wns
flag be unfurled. and deciding thu
she did not care what flag it was, fe
asleep over her books. In her dream
: which was illustrated by a number
other girls, Columbia appeared, 70
flowed by the different countries. rel
resented by girls carrying the differel
flags, each with an appropriate recit;
ton. the children of the primary d
partment singing patriotic airs in Il
l1istance The discouraged schooigi
/. lawoke to patriotism and a better u
n Iderstanding of her history lesson. II
number was heartily applauded.
The concluding number of the pr
lgran was the song, The Golden Gate
by the entire school, and as tn
marched out of the building the gir
struck up holiday song in the II
waiian language.
Professor Berger and his band we
waiting outside, and a joyous burst
music announced that the outside pr