The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-11

bles could be had much of the year
Until the Chinese succeeded in their
gardens it was thought impossible, ex-
cept during the rainy season. to raise
anything except taro. sweet potatoes
and bananas. We were associated with
the Dew. Daniel Dole. an Israelite in
deed, and Miss Marcia NJ. Smith.
remember her as the kindest of asso-
ciates. ever striving to carry the heav-
Ter part of the burden. Punahou was
at that time a sort of missionary no
tel, and we greatly enjoyed the visits
of our missionary friends.
Speaking of the annual meetings,
I whittier the tribes go up, the tribes
of the Lord and the reunions of the
missionaries at Honolulu, she says:
Parents and children came from the
different stations with household goods
sufficient to make a home in the bet
ter native houses Then we assembled
in the adobe schoolhouse = fathers,
mothers, children, the elder boys whit
, Ting the back seats, mothers and
daughters with their needles. There
We're many opportunities of social con-
verse. Reports were read, matters of
interest discussed. Devotional services
were held together; we sat down at
the table of our Lord. Was there ever
more soul-stirring music than our
grand old hymns, rolled out by the
voice of Father Thurston, leading in
Lennox?
BECAME HOME MISSIONARIES.
'In 1852 there was a longer session
than usual for that year the change
came. BY one dash of the pen in Bos-
ton we were changed from foreign
missionaries to home missionaries, to
get in part our own support, to hold
property, and the property of the Board
was to be divided-houses, lands and
herds. Before this: or about the same
, time, King Kamehameha had express
ed a wish that the mission families
remain here, and had given to each
family at a low price small tract OF
land. Many of the missionaries had
small patrimonies and paid for this
land. From this has arisen much scan
DIAL to the mission and the taunt Of
rich missionaries. But a careful survey
of the families of the mission will show
that the majority are poor, and will
I convince one of the truth of the re-
mark once made by His Excellency, r.
c. Wyliie that the mission had, on
very small salaries, lived decently ana
raised their families creditably, not
knowing the faculty of many of the
mission mothers.
I'm the spring of 1854 we left Puma
hou. poor and worn, feeling that our
salary was of more value to the school
than our services. Though it was
often very hard at Punahou, with per-
/ picking questions and conscious mis-
takes. as l review our life work / must
be thankful for ten years service at
Punahou."
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Kauai. where they struggled for a liv-
ing. while still having a supervision
of the moral and religious welfare OF
the Hawaiian people. Gradually Mr.
Rice's sugar fields enlarged until they
were merged into the Lihue sugar
plantation. of which he was manager
His health had begun to fail while al
Punahou, and in fact was the prime
cause of his leaving that institttlon
He died May q. 1853, leaving his wild
ow and a son, w. H. Rice, and daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Paul Isenberg, Mrs. c. NJ
Cook and Mrs. George De LaVergne
Her daughter, Mrs. Isenberg. died
leaving a son, the Hon. d. p. r. fsen-
berg, and a daughter, the wife of Rev
Hans Isenberg.
Grandma Rice has lived to see hel
grandchildren and great grandchildrer
multiply around her, all of whom rise
UP TO call her blessed.
The Friend of December. 1902. says
of Grandma Rice:
Her life is a placid stream which
beauties all its banks. She is remem
bered as one of the early teachers o
Punahou. and her gentle and persuasive
methods reigned both in schoolroon
= and in her parlor classes. where, a
certain times, she taught the clums!
fingers of small boys 10 sew and t.
braid. Mrs. Rice was to the mano
born. her father being then mission
= ary among the Indians on the Buffalo
, reservation Her first four years o
: labor here was at the Hama station
Nd Mrs Condo VA