The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-27
INTERESTING EXERCISE II
MARK THANKSGIVING.
Calisthenics at the Royal School Flag
Raising on Beretania Street Fur
nishes Pretty Sight.

At Kaahumanu School at 1890 o'clock
the flag-raising exercises proved to be
a sight we'll worth seeing. After the
singing of Columbia" by the children
and an address by the Rev. j. p. Erd-
man, the De Long Post G. A. r. off,
ciated as flag raisers and as the folds
of Old Glory Strengthened in the breeze
while the bCglers from Camp McKin-
ley played, all the school children
dressed in their best, the pretty young
Hawaiian maidens with unbound hair
crowned with carnation leis greatly
augmenting the picture, simultaneous
ly raised the flags they carried and
waved them round their heads while
the Territorial band played the Star
Spangled Banner" and every male
head was uncoy cred. The ceremony
was extremely impressive and patrio-
tic. America" was then sung and the
benediction pronounced by the Rev. G..
L. Pearson. Quite a crowd gathered
to watch the exercises.
This afternoon lengthy program of
specially prepared exercises including
an Hawaiian Thanksgiving Hookupu
written by Miss Alice King for the oc-
casion will be given.
In the latter the older pupils i'm
personate the characters of Hawaii and
makes a Thanksgiving proclamation
followed by a dialogue with Hawaii
Hawaii then addresses her subjects and
the different rooms join in songs ana
recitations symbolical of the various
products that have brought their quota
towards the general Thanksgiving do
nation party. A further program OF
songs. recitations and compositions Will
follow by the pupils, fourteen num-
bers in all being arranged.
Under the personal superlntenuehce
of Miss Adams who is at the head OF
the calisthenc branch of the currlcu-
lum of the public schools of this Terri
tory the pupils at the Royal School,
Aaia gave an interesting exhibition of
floor gymnastics this morning.
One hundred and seventy boys from
three of the class rooms took part IN
three sections and went through the
various exercises with a promptitude
and correctness that brought applause
from the spectators among whom were
Governor and Mrs. Dole, Mrs. George
Carter, Theodore Richards, Rev. Hook
er of Montana and Superintendent OF
Public instruction A. T. Atkinson, and
reflected great credit both on the tutor
and her pupils. One very commendable
feature was the earnestness with which
the boys followed the movements and
ed.
OF bll natienalitiss, with pure anu
mingled White, Hawaiian, Japanese and
Chinese blood some shod and full
half barefooted, some well and others
scantily clad, everybody went through
the manual with vim. There was no
failing off at the end of the line and no
skylarking or lack of attention, every
one being thoroughly under the control
of the director.
1t is now just year since the system
was inaugurated. and the efforts of the
training are apparent in the erect car
riage and confident springy tread of
the pupils. The average schoolboy
creeping like a snail, unwillingly to
school," has been turned into another
creature by modern calisthenics, the
slouch has gone and Indigestion and
other boyish evils disappear under
training that sends the blood circulat-
ing through the body, enlarges the
chest and builds up the physical con-
ditiOn while putting the mental facul-
ties into the best state for prompt re-
ception of studies. Mems sana in cor
pore sano' is the motto of modern edu-
cation as practised in Hawaii.
The exercises consist of leg and arm
extension movements, sometimes aided
by the use of a wand, deep breathing,
bending the body for suppleness and
erect carriage and marching with mus
Gle developing movements.
At the Kaiulani school commemora-
tive exercises will be held this after
| noon while edibles and flowers, bought
with the" saved up nickels of the chill
dren will be handed over to the Asso-
ciated Charities for distribution among
those less fortunate than themselves.
A program of seventeen numbers con-
sisting of songs and recitations, is to
be given during the afternoon. A
Thanksgiving luncheon cooked by some
of the older girls was served at noon to
the little ones in the receiving class.