The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-27

meal in sight
Dr. Master said that the friends oil
the patient were sending in fifty cents
day he explained. however. that
the Asylum does not get the benefit
/ OF the half dollar The money goes
10 the government The government
does with il as II sees 1T
The grounds Of the Insane Asylum
are very pleasant and the inmates
spend most Of the time out OF doors.
In fact. they are out Of doors ali day
going 10 their cells only at night. ex-
cept In cases whSre the patients are
dangerous and need to be confined
On the veranda OF the vomen's ward
sat a white woman. reading She was
the only inmate who seemed 10 be
doing anything intelligent She IS not
insane and no objection would be rails
ed to her leaving the institution at any
time She says she would rather re-
main in the Asylum than 90 home 10
her people. who persecute her She
has something Of a religious mania.
but Is not nearly as badly affected in
this line as scores of others who new
er saw the inside OF an insane asylum.
There are others in the institution
who are not crazy. Still they are there
No one knows why exactly.
Some Are Not insane.
One OF these latter is a Chinese, an
old man. who. by rights. should be in
the Hospital for Incurables- He is
suffering with an incurable disease.
The disease is In the tertiary stage
His face is bandaged so that the awful
marks of the disease may remain COW
cred. He is perfectly sane, as sane as
a man can be with the trouble he is
bearing He removed his bandages for
inspection. saying. in answer TO
question. that he was getting along as
well as could be expected
Among the others who are out of
place in an insane asylum are two
Porto Ricans. recently arrived on
these glorious shores. bringing dis
ease with them. One is a young wo-
man and the other boy The woman
is silly, nothing more. She is suffer
ing from disease which probably has
much to do with her foolish state of
mind. She is not insane, however. and
no doctor would ever pronounce her
so. She finds great comfort in the
cats which swarm around the asylum.
Cats seem to like foolish people. and
idiots and lunatics and madmen as
well as rational people
This woman was fondling a little
kitten. nesting 1t close to her breast
and talking to 1t as hundreds of 9TH
ed woman talk to their kittens or pet
dogs.
Diseased, Not Crazy.
The Porto Rican boy is silly, too,
but not insane. He Is also afflicted
with disease. 1t can be seen in his
face. Thse are two of the immigrants
which are now being brought to Ha-
waii by the shipload
A very bright looking little Hawaii
an girl is in the ASYLUM as the result
of the brutal treatment of her father.
who beat her unmercffuify over the
head. The father NAV be on the reef.
DR.. Master did not know. The brutal
parent does not come to visit what is
ieu or his little daughter.
The inmates of the ASYLUM include
Americans. Germans. Hawaiians. Por-
tuguese. Porto Ricans. South Sea ISL
anders, Chinese, Japanese and others.
NAODA tO udThu6SS the OnlF
thing they have to do is to walk up
and down. up and down, up and down
in the grounds. or sit around under
the trees and jabber a little. to each
other perhaps. and seek for entertain
ment in their own poor thoughts. No
work is given them to do. No amuse-
ments are furnished them They have
absolutely nothing with which TO
amuse themselves or pass the time.
One poor German girl takes a run up
and down the lawn now and then.
swinging her arms and singing or
shouting. This is all the recreation
she has. This is all she can get.
A young kinky-haired negress. full
OF life and strength. manifests her SUI
perhuous energy by getting into an
occasional fight with some of the other
patients. Perhaps If she had some
form of occupation or amusement she
would not be so apt to amuse herself
BY pulling the hair of her unfortunate
sisters. She is a very powerful wo-
man and ii takes more than one guard
to restrain her when she gets "real
mad" and is looking for fight,
Eats Three Rations.
One of the men, a Portuguese. in
starts to make speech after
he has partaken of his hunk of bread.
block of meat and assortment OF ba-
nanas. He is rarely Quoted until he
has been given three rations. It is
hardly surprising that the fellow
should make speech for more after
dining on the luxuries above describ-
ed. hunk Of bread. block of con-
meat and a variegated
bunch OF oyer-ripe bananas.
The reporter was present when the
evening meal was served. About five
o'clock in the afternoon the walters
proceeded to cross the lawn from the
kitchen with buckets and pals and
large cans and pans. The women all
rushed to little table near the south
fence and the men gathered round a
ong table in the middle OF the laS1,
on their. side of the imaginary line
which separates the men from the wo-
men.
At these tables the food was dis
small tin pan being passed
10 each patient. Upon receiving their
pans OF food. the patients FASTENED TO
heir favorite squatting places on the |
grass or at the foot OF the palm trees