The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-03-02
MARCH ?, 1903.
A MINOR INDUSTRY.

number of Hawaiian ladies whose head Mrs f. W. Mac
aran have been taking great deal OF interest attempting
TO establish lace industry here These phanthropc ladies
devoted considerable personal time and liberal money
in order to begin the industry they desire to make
further advance They send for and employ expert
lace teacher and put the industry upon proper basis
hat lace making would supply the females OF the community
with an industry which would remuneratvely fill spare
MC are now utterly wasted goes without saying These Ha
waan ladies' who have the good race so strongly at
heart have that Of industry must be
found 10 overcome the tendency ideness which
acteristc the fault of many of women Lace making
can be carried the home be taken up at any time
and laid down any 1t followed out after marriage
as well before marriage
There thus need establishing expert industry among
the females the population There is considerable 1atr
talent artistic sense among very large percentage Of
the people This needs to be properly developed assorted
ed upon artistic lines in many different countries.
beginning OF lace making has been made has been in
an amateur way and to go in fashion been
done during the last two years is only play with possibilities
II we are going establish byndusy which will pay and
produce something than curiosity which the tourist
picks up as he does strings OF shells and seeds we must
nave lhe ace makers properly taught 1t is stable industry that
1t IS sought to establish OF real commercial value manuac-
tory OF curos The lace industry here should such char
acer that orders for the product should from our
borders and we should endeavor establish reputation which
will extend among the wealthy classes desire to obtain the
best specmens3of this hlmy fabric.
There are at present hrhve girls learning orchon I'M
der the direction of Hawaiian teachers these classes
writes Miss Lucy Adams who is most her endeavo
promote the industry in Maawao another at Kohaa and two
IN Honolulu The class Kawaaao church under the care of
Mrs Wilcox is doing especially good work so too in the class
Makawao But all this work elementary and Miss ADAMS
points that lace making industry will failure if only
two kinds of lace made
This all points in direction necessity of an expert
lace teacher For this purpose the legislature should grant all
appropriation 1t would not be from
SIX thousand dollars all that would probably required and
money could not be expended to better purpose said
that is experiment. but if it experiment.
1t would certainly be cheap However entirely an
experiment for the amateur work already done has shown that
lace making can be carried success. /
The establishing of lace industries in various parts OF the world
has usually been brought about by energetic and pan
ropc society OF In 1888 under the auspices of
Lady Duern and other phlanhrOpc Irish exhibit
ton OF Irish lace held the Mansion House. London and 2
the following the scheme for encouraging the Irish lace
manufacture assisted by government funds Miss Syb Car
ter devoted herself to the instruction of the Indians lace max
ing and she had such that the last Paris exhibition
their work received gold medal and this where
lace making had been carried emunerave industry
years.
We giving much attention minor industries, but they
all agricultural 1t but just that should give attention
the establishment OF skilled handcaf For lace, the
wealth OF the world increases, there demand This
demand in part by machine made lace but there is
woman who, she only afford it, who will prefer hand
made lace to all the machine made in the world