The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-05

r HE Mothers and Teachers Club
met yesterday afternoon at
o'clock at the Punahou Prepara-
tory School on Beretania street for its
regular monthly meeting. The attend
ance was not as large as anticipated
due to the cornerstone exercises at Ca
hu College Much interest was shown
In the two subjects presented by Miss
Claire Uecke and Prof. NJ NJ. Scott on
discipline in the Home" and 'Disci-
pine in the School. The meeting was
opened by a piano duet by Mrs. ]. It.
Mcdonald and Miss Kruger, followed
by a few words by the chairman on the
work to be performed by the club in the
next four months.
She announced that the one dominant
policy of the club would be to agitate
the establishment of city Fairgrounds
for boys, and that in November a de-
bate upon the matter would be under
taken under the auspices of the club.
She asked for cooperation in this as
clubs work. The chairman introduced
Miss Uuecke, who gave very inter
consisting of theoretical as we'll as prac-
teal Illustration of the best methods
for training the young. Throughout
her paper the mother was referred to
as the prominent factor in the develop
ment of the mind of the child. Her ad-
vice was to bring to bear on the child
the highest and best thoughts that the
education of the mother has enabled her
to acquire and which she should be-
stow upon the child. To this also she
should ally her fullest reasoning
powers and common sense. With these
advantages many of the problems of
childhood could be solved. A good
mother was the one who would do the
best in all things for her child for she
above all others would best be able to
understand her own. She did not feel
convinced that corporal punishment
was the best method to discipline the
young. Where a child could be dis
cipllned in no other way then punish
ment should be imposed, but in the
most private manner. It should be adj
ministered by the parent and not by
outsiders unless it is the desire of the
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| offending little one. The father and
mother should share equally the re-
sponsibility of disciplining a child;
they should cooperate in studying the
moods of the child. If the mother has
the experience of having been we'll
trained she will strengthen her offspring
IN good principles and wise habits. 1t
all required the keenest discrimination
to set a child on the right track. to
make 1t light-hearted and of a generous
and loving nature.
But as to the mothers themselves, the
speaker said 1t was difficult to find one
IN thousand willing to spend a year
In training herself to become a real
mother looking to the best interest of
her child. The woman who needed this
training the most was the one who
| spent the most of her time in adorn-
Ing her person in finery, making laces,
going to teas and dinners and social
gatherings, and who watched with keen
interest to see whether or not her name
was among the guests who attended
Mrs. ks tea or dinner as noted in the
society columns of the newspapers. The
real society woman, she asserted, did
not care whether her name appeared
In print or not The speaker entered
into dissertation on the question of
whether or not mothers whose interests
should be centered in their children
should attempt to court favor with a
newspaper society column Without
the mothers constant supervision and
ulscipiine the boy was likely to grow
up as one of the Cheeky" Americans.
the strongest expression she could use.
She spoke of the discipline which proper