The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-18

| nered and perfectly at ease, were en-
joying a Thanksgiving party l walk
ed over the cathedral grounds, anC
seeing lights in our Chinese SUNDAY
school rooms, | went in. There, with
the young minister and the youns
! warden present, were thirty or forty
Chinese young women and men play
ing games. They were laughing at the
efforts of a blindfolded girl trying tc
pin the tail on the donkey. Could such
a scene be witnessed anywhere else in
the world? Chinese young women and
men of manageable age enjoying
| themselves togetheri In China never
| speaking to each other until married
here getting to know each other and, ]
presume, to love each other in a ra-
tional way! One couple there / knew
We're engaged. In the rear room 1 saw
preparations for refreshments. Amer
lean ice cream and cakei American
| lied indeed! Why, / was at a Chinese
! home the other day and saw a young
man call and hand a girl a box of
American candy. We all know that
the Chinese girl is chaste and modest.
and she is SO when she gets out of
seclusfon as well as when in it.
The Japanese are. not so readily in
fluenced by American ideas and life.
| In the first place, they are, when they
come here, intensely patriotic, while
the Chinese have little idea of any
patriotic feeling. Then the japanese
use every means to keep their children
japanese in spirit. After the public
schools close at 2 p. m, japanese chill
dren ase sent, if possible, to a Bud
dhist priest and taught the japanese
language and patriotic principles In
order to hold the Japanese, the Bud
dhists adopt the Christian methods of
Sunday schools and Sunday preaching
services, besides night schools. Still
the Japanese are influenced, the women
especially being impressed with the
conditions of women here. Il like Ha-
wall" heard our japanese woman say
to my wife. I'm Japan, man he I'D
high, woman down low; in Hawaii, wo-
man she up high too all same man."
The children also, when they go back
to Japan, as perhaps most of them do,
will take some of the Americanizing
which they have gained here, and 1t
will not be lost. What makes all our
work so important here is that under
peculiarly favorable conditions we have
an opportunity of teaching the ORR
entails something which they could not
gain in their own land. 1t will all tell,
and is telling, in the uplifting of the
race.
The Portuguese young people take
an interest in politics, and are learning
American ideas. The Portuguese are
a frugal and Industrious people and |
have desire to vote for the best as
far as they understand it.
The chief idea of President Roosevelt |
at this time as regards Hawaii is to |
the islands by getting Eu- |
ropeans here. 1t is recognized that for |
white labor on the plantations the |
peasant of Italy or Portugal is the only |
available supply. The desire of the /
President is to get these people here
and to assure each family the pos
session of lot of land which will in
luce them to become stable residents.
The plantation managers have spent
sums of money in order to get
he labor needed, but the only available
lind since annexation has been Japa-
lese, and these islands are being thor
'ughly Japanned. They are excellent
aborers, but they do not stay on the
plantations nor islands, and Hawaii is
becoming a mere stepping stone for