The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-04

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But If the proceeding to have you
removed as guardian of these children
is carried on in the court, and you
do not defend it, and are removed as
guardian, and some one there appoint
ed, may the guardian not come over
here and have a legal right to take the
children from the families where you
place them and take them back?'' was
asked.
L had never thought of it in that
light" replied Miss Beard. II suppose
he might. But I hardly think he will.
No proceeding has yet been begun in
court. They have only threatened to
have it brought. L think they We're
bluffing. Besides I am the legal
guardian of very few of the children.
I never had myself appointed guardi-
an except in cases where 1 thought it
might be necessary to protect the
child. But the papers they prepared
asked for my removal as guardian Of
these, and the appointment OF Mr..
0verend as guardian of these and of
all the others as well.
What was the dietary of the Or
phanage? Milk and vegetables and
occasionally eggs. Why, we have
eleven Jersey cows at the Orphanage
and acres of vegetable gardens. Be
sides the work that the children were
able to do in the matter of gardening
and taking care of the cows, I hired
a Japanese woman and three or four
men according to the amount of work
to be done at different seasons. Did
at~S
they did. Why no institution or place
ever had such record for health as
The Kona Orphanage. We never had
any sickness there. DR.. Wall, who
looked after the children's teeth, told
me that he could tell almost exactly
how long a child had been in the Or
phanage by examining it's teeth. IL it
had been there only short time, its
teeth were soft. IF it had been there
longer its teeth were whittier and hard
er. If it had been there long time
it's teeth were white and hard. What
does that show? Why that the food
they received was nourishing and built
up the various tissue Of the body
what was the motive for this agi-
tation against you?" was asked.
Il don't know; selfshness perhaps.
Still l don't want to confess other
peoples sins. MIR. Scott once wrote
me a note asking me not to take any
children from the district into my
school as the amount of his Wife's
salary as school teacher depended up
on the number of pupils in her school.
What will / do when I place all
these children in families here? I will
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COWS and the vegetable gardens. The
gardens will soon go to ruin if they
are not taken care of. do not know
whether anything can be made out of
the garden vegetables or not. There
is no market there for them and 1
have been told that there is no profit
in sending them to Honolulu for sale.
The COWS, too, must be taken care of
until they can be disposed of.
1.-The teachers at the Orphanage will
come to Honolulu by the next Mauna
Loa and I will pay their fares to their
homes in California. They are people
who give their services. They do not
receive any salary. I paid their way
out here, and / will pay it back.
Il have given my time and my
money to this work because I love it,
and because it is needed. But I don't
have to remain in a community that
does not want it. I can go elsewhere.
What will become of the property
of the Orphanage?''
1T belongs to the Kona Orphanage
and the corporation will
decide what shall be done with it,
do not know what the corporation viii
do until it has a meeting
In addition to the thirty children
brought to Honolulu, seven Japanese
children were left in Kona to be placed
with families there, homes for all of
them being practically arranged for /
before Miss Beard left.
r. H. Trent, one of the directors of
the Orphanage who went over to Ko- |
ma to investigate, declined to say any
hing regarding the matter for pub /
ication referring all inquirers to Miss
Beard.
The Kona Orphanage as an insti- /
tuition is to be abandoned.
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