The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-19
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when young Mr. Bishop landed in
Honolulu, Bernice Pauahi was fifteen
years old. She was nineteen years cid
W hen she was married to Charles X
Bishop. 1t was most fortunate that she
gave her affections TO this honorable
gentleman, and that she had not been
Won by ar adventurer, or a man Of
loose ideas of morals, Or spend
thrift. How different things would
have been if this had occurredl This
shows what an important matter it is
that we should use our minds as well
as our hearts when marriage is con-
sidered. 1t was to enable young peo-
pie 10 have educated intelligence in
such matters that these schools were
founded, that young people should not
merely follow their fancies, but have
an educated sense in making d choice
of life companion. There is nothing
that will drag a girl down sooner than
TO be tied to a man Of low and base
ideals, and nothing which will SO ruin
q man az being tied to a woman who is
bad. careless of her person Or her
household. It was to lift the race by
training girls to be good and men to
be honest and manly that the founder
gave her fortune to these schools.
We can not all be born of the fam
lilies of chiefs, we can not all be born
TO wealth, as Mrs. Bishop was, but we
can all be honest, and truthful, and
clean in our words and in our deeds, if
we will. To be of good family is some
thing, but it is not nearly of so great
Importance as being a good man. God
does not judge a man by his family
nor do men judge him by that. To
have wealth is a great thing, but it is
not of any Importance when we COM
pare it with being a good man or good
woman. Mrs. Bishop is honored today
not because she was a chiefess or be-
cause she inherited much land but be-
cause she was a good, pure woman. It
was because she herself was good that
she was so interested in helping Ha-
waiian children, generation after gem
GRAFTON as they come to these schools
TO learn what is right. and to be train
ed in the habits of industry, and in
habits of order, cleanliness and right
living.
THE PLAN OF THE SCHOOLS.
In the will of Mrs. Bishop she states
that in founding these schools she has
a good English education and also
that instruction shall be given in
morals and in such useful knowledge
as may tend to make them good and
Industrious men and women. She
knew very well that the mere knowing
about things does not insure that those
who know, will necessarily be good. In
fact it is not the ignorant who are our
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greater degree than those who are not
well educated. She knew very will
that education without goodness is a
dangerous thing, it gives only bad men
power to carry on evil with greater
ability. Our prisons on the mainland
are full of young people who are well
educated. but who have not good
morals. and it is not the ignorant
among the Hawaiian people who go
wrong in any larger degree than it is
those who have received a good edu
cation but are lacking in moral char
acter. 1t is because she knew this that
Mrs Bishop in her viii mentions the
word moral first as the object CT the
work of these schools. That is she
wishes that all that is done here may
tend to make you good men and Wo-
men. and bv good she meant obedient
to Gods laws. But she has another
word in the same sentence with the
word good and that is the word in
dustrious,' and she places it there be
cause she knew very well indeed that
unless a young man or a young woman
is Industrious it is hard for that per-
son to be good
THE BREADTH OF INDUSTRY.
Being industrious does not only refer
to business it refers also to our sports,
we can not work all the time we must
have play. Nothing is more useful in
the lives of young people than to have
heaIthful sports and amusements. Low
amusements degrade young folks
quicker than anything else. If you
would keep clean in heart and in life
then you must keep away from all low
amusementS. | have a very deep con-
viction in my heart and mind that one
of the demoralizing things in these is
lands is that sort of sport which takes
the form OF any kind of gambling. I
have watched the course of many
young men of the Hawaiian race who
have gone wrong. who have been short
in accounts, and I have noted that the
cause was gambling. Gambling is the
attempt to get money without work
and this is immoral. No business man
will long have in his employ any young