The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-26
WHERE LOVE AND KINDNESS
REPLACE WANT AND MISERY

! one of the Oahu plantations. The
mother died a short time after arriv-
ing, leaving the two children. the boy
under five years old and the girl a
baby of only a few days over a year
old The father could not pay anyone
to look after the children and was ig-
norant of where to apply for help.
Every morning he went off to work,
after washing and attending to the
children, leaving food for them on a
chair. All day, every day, for nine
months, the five-year-old boy looked
after his baby sister. until friends told
the father of the home. The little girl.
who was brought in in an emaciated
condition, is now the pet of the home.
bright, brown-eyed, fat, little tod
dler. whose only Spanish word is
aqua"
Elizabeth, little Porto Riean girl,
with soft curly hair and a winning
smile, spent two years Of the seven she
has lived, wandering about Honolulu
with an old woman, a foster grand
mother, who had taken her away from
her real grandmother to protect her
from the beating she received. some of
the marks of which vet remain on her
soft baby body. The foster granny re-
fused to give the baby up at the com
mand of her relatives, and the two. the
aged woman and the baby, were put out
on the streets. For twenty months thew
ilved on the piekings from garbage
barrels and the little that could be
begged At nights they slept under
buildings and in parks, ever watchful
of the police. Then the old woman
gave up the fight to keep the baby and
brought it tearfullv to the home.
''The Heavenly Twins" two kinky-
haired little Porto Riean Africans. grin
broadly at visitors. They are eight
years old, and have been two wears at
the home. Their father brought them
there after his wife had run away from
9im, and in the two years he has been
once to see them. The twins are among
the happiest of all the children. the
only cloud on their horizon coming
when they quarrel between themselves
and one calls the other "nigger."
For the keep of none of these chill
dren does the home receive cent from
the relatives. The older ones helm in
the work, while the women living there
work In the laundry. in the sewing
room and about the house and kitchen.
From all sources the income Of the
home Is 5000 a month assured and $50
which has to be raised to make ends
meet by hard rustling on the part of
stan captain McAbee, the matron, who
IS assisted by Adjutant Long and En-
sign Stevenson. The rent paid is $50
a month, leaving less than So a month
to feed, clothe and house each of the
inmates. The three paid officials of the
nome are the matrOn and her assistants.
and they receive as salary an average
of three dollars and a half week
apiece. To representative Of the Ad-
7ertlser, Matron McAbee apologized
Tor the largeness OF this amount. stating
N explanation that they had recently
lad their salaries increased from two
iollars week, because HWe found
hat we really could not live on two
dollars only"
This home deserves public supnort
The matron has hopes that the Oahu
Board of Supervisors will agree to nav
he rent for the buildings. which viii
10 away with all the worry every
month OF where the extra fifty dollars
; 70 come from over the two hundred
lollars guaranteed by charitable ones.
ne children need toys, and those among
ne fortunate little ones of Honolulu
would be doing a kindly act 70 snare
or the unfortunate children some from
helr plenty. The home needs furni-
ure- 1t was oUened eight years ago.
lhd much Of the bedding. furnishings
nd dishes are worn out or gone