The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-20
SEWING IN HAWAII
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observation-Disclosures

AS an introduction to paper say that lay no
originality The extracts have been cued from the best
my command
Sewing thing it is old the creation of man. We
of who made the wonderful coats
and garments that the of Joppa showed Peter.
the interesting work done by birds Look how
the orioe tailor bird leaves together make their In
Indians of sewing and used thongs of dried
skin and the fibre of trees to sew their wgwas together and mend
their
training done in of the common
told establish
departments of sewing connection with the universities For
sewing has been taught the schools of England
where the needle work When Princess Kaiulan
England finish her education of the things she learned
was plain sewing
Before the Hawans had civilized they their
together using needle made bamboo and thread made of wauke
fibre When their goud alabahes needed sewing the natives
used FIBRE and their stitches like the modern stitch
When the first and their wives arrived here in April
$780, they allowed land for hours While
they board the Thaddeu B the and
of the chiefs visited the ship When they the missionaries wearing
ruled shirts they knew what the cloth given them by the early
traders They brought their material the of the
missionaries and asked them make shirts like those they had
After the missionaries their had landed
white who had been living here pleased
OF Their own race that they offered them their homes which
grass nuts built on the land where the postotce stands
her piece Of s which s se a esf M Rng ha @ M
garment This probably the first sewing
Islands Mrs Bingham opened school the site where the post
and the wives and Children Of eav settlers e It was pr e m THIS
school that the Hawaiians first taught
but order OF the Board The sehooI agents began
SEND chests and outfits
the present time majority of schools supplied
with these by order OF the Department The majority of
the Hawaiian Islands feel that the children taught plain
and many OF the pupils making for poor
children IN their Schools the little
Home and the Opanage Thus through sewing children are en-
couraged do for others they understand very
important OF home making when they towels
holders needle-books, penwipers,
Experience has shown that preparation make sewing
as educational other branch
have competent this branch as is
other Sewing has advantages makes
child observant and believe
what furnishes better field than sewing? different
kinds of material there? Where manufactured Collect
the different kinds of fbres Where or erown How
| transported, etc?
Teachers give children excellent color training by
sewing 1t OF use to people in all walks of life more
than to the mother Think of the clothes mend
ing she has to do and the stockings she darn How the
people be clothed without dressnakes there is the
PHYSICIAN sewing OF vital Importance to him. Think
at must be sewed the delicate stitching the life saving silver
WIRE or cat gut We all know how sewing the nurse
eachers should understand the method
their pupils unless the schools have special for the work
wonder what sailors would do they did to sew
on an the large men-otwars sailors spend their sewing
patching or darnng Go the sugar mill you find men
ana women busy sewing the bags after they filled with