The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-24
W. G. T. o. DoINGs.
The Regular Meeting of the Society
is Held.

The Womens Christian Temperance
Union met as usual in the ladies parlor
of the Central Union Church yesterday
afternoon After the reading of the
Scripture and prayer the report from the
Flower Mission was listened to, given by
Miss Pindar, the secretary and treasurer
Two very touching letters were read
from soldiers who had been presented
with flowers and Testaments. Miss Pin
dar rendered her resignation, as she was
soon to leave Honolulu A letter from
Mrs Hunt was read asking the society
to take up the work of temperance stud
les in the public schools of Hawaii. Sew
eraI copies of the late law We're sent
making it compulsory to teach the ma
ture of alcoholic drinks and narcotics
in the public schools of all the Terri
tories of the United States. a copy of
| the law referred to reads as follows:
Extended to Hawaii by Act of Congress
/ January, 1900:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
| sembIed:
| Section l. That the nature of alcohoHc
drinks and narcotics, and special instruc-
ton as to their effects upon the human
system, in connection with the several
divisions of the subject of physiology and
hygiene shall be included in the
lbranches of study taught in the common
|, Tor public schools, and in the military
and naval schools, and shall be stuo ed
and taught as thoroughly and in the
same manner other like required
branches are in said schools, by the use
} of text books in the hands of pupils
where other branches are thus studied
. | in said schools and by pupils in al
. said schools throughout the Territories
in the military and naval academies II
the United States, and in the District o
Columbia, and in all Indian and colore'
, schools in the Territories of the United
, States
, Sec Q. That it shall be the duty of th'
. proper officers in control of any schoo
: described in the foregoing section to en-
I force the provisions of this Act; and an!
. such officer school director, committee
: s1perlntendent or teacher who shall re
fuse or neglect to comply with the re
uuirements of this Act or shall neglec
. or fail to make proper provisions for tn
. instruction required and in the manne
\ specified by the first section of this Ac
= for all pupils in each and every schoo
= under his jurisdiction, Snall De reHioNe
from office, and the vacancy filled as i
other cases.
. Sec g. That no certificate snail b
. granted to any person to teach in tn
. public schools of the District of Column
. bia or Territories, after the 1st of Janu
. airy, Ammo Domini, 1888, who has not pass
q ed a satisfactory examination in phys
. ology and hygiene, with special refer
ence to the nature and the effects of a
= coholic drinks and other narcotics upo
. the human system.
. Approved May 20, 1885,
Miss Whiteman, Mrs. Coan and Mis-
Castle We're appointed as a committee
. bring the subject before the attention
Q the Board of Education. Resolutions
q coincidence were adopted to be sent
. the family of Mrs. F. S. Lyman, the d.
ceased having been a faithful worker
the Hf1o branch of the Womens Chri!
tan Temperance Union. No further bus
. mess being before the meeting an az
. journment was made until the next rel
ular session.