The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-03
CHILDREN
AND RICHES
LOCaISchOoIYOuth
Have Views on
Wealth.
A GOOD MANY
DO NOT WANT IT
interesting Data Collected by Mrs.
Charles Bartlett Dyke Of the
Kamehameha Schools.

81 RS. Susan d. Heapy. of the Haa-
- humanu School. was elected pres
ident of the Mothers and Teach
ers' Club for the ensuing year, at the
regular monthly meeting held yester-
day afternoon at the Punaho. Prenara-
tory. She succeeds Miss Cora r. Pan
nabaker. principal OF the Henry and
Dorothy Castle Memorial Free Kinder
garten, who intends returning to Chi
cago at the end 1e the present sshsei
year. and was therefore obliged TO de-
cline further honors from the club. A
resolution was adopted wherein the
club regretted the loss it sustafns IN
the de! arturo of Miss Pannabaker. ana
her services in the past were the sus-
jact OF a vote of thanks. During ltfse
Pannabaker's regime several Oh the
most important subjects pertaining to
the schools and their association with
civic affairs have been discussed and
the club has been able to take a stand
among our most significant debating
and literary societies.
Mrs. Walker was reelected as Sec
retary. A vote OF thanks was extended
Mrs. ]. T. Mcdonald for the 1nasie
which she has furnished at almost
every meeting OF the club.
Mrs. Charles Bartlett Dyke. Of Ma
mehameha School. made an interesting
address on THE Use and Value of
Money" largely as it pertained to
school children here. A study OF the
tain questions to the school children OF
Honolulu, as follows:
Would you like to be rich? Why?'
eff some one gave you a dollar, what
would you do with it?"
How much money of your own did
you have last week? What did you do
with it?"
Four per cent of the children made
conditional answers. saying they would
like to be rich. providing they could
get money honestly, or they would like
to be rich, but not too rich. Eleven
per cent answered No" In the ma
jority of cases Hawaiians thought they
would not like to be rich because they
ture existence in heaven, and further
that il would entail good deal OF
trouble 10 look after their wealth One
boy said "anarkers'' would shoot him If
he had riches There was a feeling ex-
pressed that people would not be happy
be poor and have a good conscience
than TO be rich and wicked Others
felt they would not be generous IL they
were rich. One boy said he would like
TO have money enough only to buy food
and clothes. Eighty-fiye per cent
thought they would like to be rich, but
there was a great paucity of wants ex-
pressed. The general requirements were
few. Only hundred mentioned q few
and these were in the line OF
food and clothes. Four per cent wanted
to be rich so they would not have 10
work, while three per cent desired
riches to be used for the benefit OF 9th
ers. Food and clothes were very prom
inent reasons for wanting to be rich
In summing UP all the answer. and
them. Mrs. Dyke stated that
every one of the younger children ex-
pressed wish TO be rich, and many
more reasons were given by them than
by the older ones. showing more intel
ligence and hopefulness amongst them
Out of 3S4 answers. only 333 reason.
were given for wanting to be rich. and
100 OF these were indefinite. Mrs.
Dykes feeling was that children in Ha-
waii do not know what they want.
Children in the States generally sx-
pressed hundreds of wants, not the
east Of which was 20 have fine edu-
zation.
'It is an expression OF intelligence
10 have wants and to strive for the
best things OF life said Mrs. Dyke
The kindergartens and school. are
giving such wants. The only way to
secure and retain a centented and un-
ambitious Iaboring class in the Islands
: to close the kindergartens and pub
ic schools The altruistic spirit among