The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-31

Iu pamphlet jus. issued uy tha
Board of Health there appears much
of great interest DOB regard To- The vsI-
fare of certain of HovoHs people and
what should be done to- insure that
welfare.
ct is hoped. says President L. u.
pukham of the Board of Health, in his
report forever discard the title 1f
'Nou-leprous Female Cor Male) chill
drcn of Leprous Parents. I very much
doubt If it is fair TO place such a stig-
ma, as is at present the case, ON these
children of leprous parents.
owe have had an experience of 81
years and 8 months with girls at the
Kaplolani Home, and of 105 received,
but six have been returned to the Set
clement; had these six been promptly
taken from their parents after birth
and brought up in a nursery until old
enough to be transferred to the Girls
Home, most Of them would not have de-
veloped the disease; we are about to
erect a complete and up-to-date ,nur-
sery at Kalaupapa, wherein babies VIII
be Immediately cared for with the APP
prevail Of the residents at the Settle
ment.
1.-THE girls at the Kapiolani Home APP
pear as healthy and happy as average
children.
This institution was opened Novem-
Der 5th, 1885, at KakaakO Honolulu.
Later it was removed 70 grounds ad-
iacent to the Kalihi Receiving Station,
and stiH more recently it's location was
changed to a spot on the beach about
half a mile makai OF the Kalihi Pump
ing Station.
This institution is a marvel Of what
can be done with a little money, and
what girls themselves may accomplish
when willing to work
q see no happier faces anywhere
than those in this Home
at present the place shelters three
Sisters i'm charge, forty-five girls and
six employees; Sister NJ. Benedicta is
matron; Sister NJ. Boneventure is as
sistant; Sister NJ. Albina is assistant.
1T would be super1uous for me to
praise these Sisters and I doubt if they
would thank me for SO doing they
ask for little, but a new chapel is near
est their hearts, for the little old one
! is outgrown, and I am quite su the
! legislature will grant and the Governor
approve of an appropriation of money
sufficient to cover this object and the
| increased sum necessary for n-rnten-
ance Of the increasing number Of girls.
"The legislature, session of 1905 an
/ M 81,
which to, establish such a Home and
100000 per year for its support.
Neither sum was sufficient to estab-
fish the Home or maintain the fifty-siy
boys designated, of whom thirty-two
are under six years of age These very
young boys require motherly attention,
which can only be secured by conse-
Grafton, rather than by hire
after consulting the Mother Super.
Tor Of the Order of st. Francis and the
Right Reverend Bishop Libert, we
found these Sisters, heretofore our re-
lance in the care of the young) were
so few in numbers they could under
take no new work. For over a year a
search has been made. both in America
and Europe, for Sisters suited to this
responsibility Recently Sisters have
been found who will consent to take
charge of these boys until they reacf
the age of between eight and nine. af.
ter which htey must be passed on t
their practical education and training
THE Territory, in undertaking t
bring up these boys, should clearly out
line its purpose and accept it's respon,
sibility to the legal age limit, that they
may be sent out fully able to take theiI
place in the world
THE Territory should not contem
plate supporting these boys indefinite
ly, but, as their education progresses
gradually oblige them to work unit
they become self-supporting in thu
Boys Home, that they may cease t
be burden to the community
1T is to be assumed that the Terri
tory wishes to make healthy younl
men of them, capable when dismissed
Of actually, not theoretically, making
living as becomes a good citizen an(
useful member of society.
a prominent Territorial educato
stated recently. at is the duty Of pc,
ents to point the way to a livelihood
not that of the schools"
Schools and modern civilization
have largely usurped the authority ant
opportunity of parents, particularly II
common life, to either train or direc
their children to means Of livelihood.
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