Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-21
TEACHING IN HAWAII.
Grace Barrett Tells OF Her Elk.
perience in the Schools at
Honolulu.
Hawaiians. Chinese and Japan.
csc Children All Attend the
Same Kindergartens.
English Is Taught, But Pigeon
English Is Spoken IS The
Mosquito Pest.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa city, July 21.-NIiss Grace Bar
rett, of Iowa City daughter of the
/ late Rev. DR. H. n. Barrett, of the
Presbyterian church, has returned from
u two years stay in Honolulu, where
She has been engaged in kindergarten
work.
Miss Barrett, in the course of an in
terview with a representative of the
Times Republican, today spoke as fol-
lows:
The people of Hawaii are the most
Ihospitable | have ever met abroad. The
and L look forward with much pleasure
to my return in the fall.
There is but one bane,' she added.
Ito life in Honolulu, and that is the
mosquitoes are awful They work IN
two shifts, one variety boring by day.
and the other by night. The former
class is composed OF the 'penltentlarN
birds, so styled because their legs are
striped like the garments of con-
vict."
Miss Barretts school (since the Chi
nese rebuilt the district, after the de-
struction by fire of the infected region
in the plague season of 1900 has been
attended largely by Chinese children,
altho it was originally intended for
Hawaiians only She remarked: 1T
is an amusing spectacle to see little
Japanese in gay kimono. a little pig
tailed Chinaman and a little dark hued
Hawaiian. walking hand in hand, and
all jabbering Pigeon English as hard
as their tongues can fly. They do not
understand one another's language, but
the Pigeon English serves as come
between.
In Miss Barrett's school are two
classes of Chinese children, the ones
who wear pigtails, and the reformed
Chinese who have had their hair cut
off. The former guard their hirsute
appendages sacrcdly. Often a lad would
come to Miss Barrett with his hair
wrapped up under his cap and say:
"Teacha. me no got hair no more.
When she would take off the cap, the
tiny pigtail would drop down his back.
and off he would scamper, thinking he
had played a capital joke on the
American woman.
The kindergartens, Miss Barrett says.
are conducted on the same plan as
those of America. She was principal
of the Palama schools. Under her We're
five woman assistants, an American, Il
Portuguese, n Japanese, part Chinese
and u part Hawaiian The assistants
are trained in kindergarten normal.
The heads of the schools are Amer
leans. and the assistants are of all ma
tionalities.
In Honolulu" said Miss Barrett.
there are five kindergartens. The
separate race kindergartens have been
abandoned. All nationalities now at
tend the same school. The informing
ling of the young people tends to
AmericanZe them more rapidly. The
are doing a great, good
work in Hawaii. They prepare the
children for the public schools and
give the younsters American ideas
which they are able to use later in
life. 1t is the best kind of starter
for the making of good American cit
liens.
The people of Hawaii appreciate the
work, and the natives
are anxious to send their children to
the schools. The children are easily
disciplined and are ready to learn. On
regular school days the little tots wear
the American dress as Tapping trous-
ers and Il flowing konono are not con-
ducive to speed While at play On gala
days. however, their doting parents
rig them out in native costume, and
when | take them -out on excursions,
a rainbow pales into significance when
compared with the gaudy collection of
smiling youngsters. The people are al
ways hungry for holidays, and the
so Wild with delight over their
rides on the electric cars.
The school system of Honolulu,
Miss Barrett proceeded, lis an ex-
ceient one There are several insti-
buttons of learning beside the govern
ment school. but at that there are not
enough to accommodate all applicants
Honolulu has one high school. and the
oahu college ranks a little higher than
our high schools 1t is a coeducation-
III college. The Catholics also have
Il number of excellent schools.
The kamehamaha schools are great
institutions. One of them is
for boys and one for girls Each ac-
commodities about 80 pupils. The
schools are provided for by the estate
of Mr.. Bernice Pauhai Bishop. part
Hawaiian. Only those who have Ha-
waiian blood can enter. This fact led
one little fellow to say to me pathet-
ical!y: 'Missa Barretta, l wish | could
put littla Hawaii blood in my veins,
till | get in kamehamaha school,"
Prohibition Delegates.
Special to Times Republican,
t'reston, July 2l.-1he delegates from
Union county to the prohibition state
convention to be held at Waterloo on