The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-09
WORK FOR
CHILDREN
Kinderg artenFa acts
From Maui
Isle.

April 1st celebrated the FIRST ami
versary of the opening of Alexander
House. wailuku, Maui department
of which is the kindergarten.
The kindergarten enrolment the first
day was twenty-nine. which has now
grown to seventy, with an average at
tendance of fifty-six.
Six nationalities are represented, the
Hawaiians leading in numbers.
Mrs KnowIton has the beautiful
kindergarten spirit, deepened by the
knowledge of the preciousness of these
little ones. OF the three assistants,
two are Iawaiians and one Chinese
Miss Minerva Langford, a Maui Sem
mary girl, has her home with the
workers Miss Celia King lives in
Waikiki and Miss EN- Ming Young
lives with the Chinese minister.
The kinderCarten room is large and
airy with a fine view. Window boxes,
plants, fish and bird make the room
home-like and give the children some
lessons in care-taking.
The piano box, converted INTO
house stands in one corner. 1t has
sitting room. dining room and Kitchen
on the first floor, two bed rooms ana d
bath room on the second moor. Appro-
pirate furniture for each room, cur
tains, etc, were made by the chiiore ss
walls papered and house painted inside
and out The family of 1--WE oolis
make real the housekeeping.
The children are now cuitiVatihS
their second crop of vegetables.
The first class has graduated into the
public schools. Flattering reports are
i,iven by their teachers.
iy Baldwin Kindergarten, Lahaina, op-
Fened Sept 3rd, with thirty children
and now has an enrolment OF HIly.
nine. with an average attendance OF
fifty.
l.nationalities.
u Miss F. S. Barker has as her assist
lants Miss Rachel Hazelden ana TWO
( Hawaiian girls, Misses Rose Akeo ana
Fanny AC.ims.
h The kindergarten building and
grounds were the gift of Hon. III. +.
Baldwin. On consecrated soil the real
missionary work is going on.
Situated in the most congested part
of the town, the child garden meets
the local need.
The large room, 80 AZ. with u foot
yeranda, gives space for occupations
and games. The Gilbert Island moth
ers spend many mornings on the We.
randa weaving hats. At the SOUND OF
the piano they are in the room, enter
ing fully into the spirit of the games.
What have our kindergartens done
They have entered the homes Inc
happiest relations exist between teach-
ers and parents, kindergartens ana
homes The monthly mothers meet
ings. OF a social character. with re-
| freshments, the weekly visit In the
homes the visits OF the parents 10 the
kindergarten and through all the mu-
tuai love for the child is realizing the
| best things into which a little chllu
| shall lead them"
Often is the statement made by Wis
itors. Your children are from the best
| families Yes, we have from al
! grades and all are of the one roya
family. The exception Is SO small ina,
Il we can say all the children are neatly
II dressed and show the mothers care
In our cosmopolitan kindergartens We
have the first complaint to be made Of
moral contamination. AS the mrs
months OF the baby's life records mar
! velous development OF baby mind anC
spirit. in like measure ooes the KINDER
Earten witness the changes from alb
normal To healthy growth.
y visit to last mothers meeting
would nave revealed the tie that binds
Tnirty-five mothers were there. eigh
Chinese. 1t was a model social.
Most nCbly are our plantations help
ing solve tlie problem they have ere
ated. How to make citizens OF TN
Hawaiian born Asiatics and Port
Ricans. Our land at Wailuku is tn
eift of the plantation: IL also gives 50
per month toward the support of tn
kindergarten. At Lahaina the planta
lion gives $50 per month and has do
mated six months use of teachers
cottage.
| Gathered in our kindergarten are tn
little ones from the one-room house
the one family bed. Others are from
homes in which idols are set up am
| incense burned to strange gods. Girl
are OF little value. From the Amer
can, Hawaiian. Portuguese, Chinese
Japanese, Gilbert Islands. and Port
Rican homes they come; environment
different. moral standards different.
The kindergarten is the child home
the place for its natural development
The law of childhood, activity, is re
garded here. In occupations an
games, IL is the kindergarten family
All Sue skips with Mary, HauasaE
bows to Domingo, and Antoine share
his beads with Leialoha. The spirit Q
courtesy and helpfulness IS the atmos
| phere of the place. Here Is the tru
beginning of the operation of the law
The fathsrhood OF God and the broth
= erhood of man. Years Will show tn
results in better moral, Industrial an
economic conditions.
We cannot speak of our kinderSar
ten without making mention OF the on
whose generous support and sympath
have entered so vitality into them, Mr.
II y baldwin. The number of Homo
lulu ladies who are helping on the run
ming expenses are putting their none
to- its best use. Would that We had
kindergarten at Hama
Respectfully submitted,
a. ]. MALONE.