The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-25

der is to be honored above all other
men. But the woman who, whether
from cowardice, from selfishness, from
having a false and vacuous ideal,
shirks her duty as wife and mother,
earns the right to our contempt, just
tive, fears to do his duty in battle
when the country calls him.
Because we so admire the good wo-
man, the unselfish woman, the far
sighted woman, we have scant patience
with her unworthy sister who fears to
do her duty; exactly as, for the very
reason that we respect a man who
does his duty honestly and fairly in
politics; who works hard at his busl-
ness; who in time of national need
does his duty as a soldier, we scorn his
brother who idles when he should
work; who is a bad husband, a bad
father; who does his duty i'll in the
family or toward the state, who fears
to do the work of a soldier if the time
comes when a soldiers work is need
ed. All honor to the man or woman
who does duty, who renders service;
and we can only honor him or her if
the weight of our condemnation is felt
by those who finch from their duty.
SPEECH DESIGNATED AS SERMON.
"You see, my guests, you have let
yourselves in for a sermon. l have
now almost come to the end. Before
do however, want to ask your assist
ance for two or three matters that are
not Immediately connected with the
life in the family itself, but that are
of vital consequence to the children.
'In the first place, in the schools,
see that the school work is made as
practical as possible. For the boys l
want to see training provided that
shall train them toward, and not away
from, their life work; that will train
them toward farm or the ship, not
away from it, With the girl, see that
it is not made a matter of mirth that
the girl who goes to college comes out
unprepared to do any of the ordinary
duties of womanhood. See, in other
words, that with the higher education
which she should have, for she should
have a right to just as much educa-
ton, to just as high an education, as
any man-see that with that goes the
education that will fit her to do her
fundamental work in the world.
"As regards our public schools es-
pecially | want to put in a special
word in behalf of the right kind of
Fairgrounds. No school is a good
school if it has not a good play
grounds. Help the children to play and
remember that you can often help them
most by leaving them entirely acne. l
misread them if they themselves do not
often know better how to play than we
old folks can teach them. 1t is the
greatest kind of wrong, not only to
the children, but to the whole COM
munity, to turn out the boys and girls,
especially in the congested part Of the
city, with no place to play in but
streets. There can be no more impor-
tant reform than to provide adequate
Fairgrounds; and a beginning schould
be made here in the District of Column
bia.
EVILS OF CHILD LABOR.
you cannot have good citizens,
good men and women of the next gen.
Grafton, if the boys and girls are work
in factories to the stunning of their
moral, mental and physical growth.
Wherever the national government can
reach, it should do away with the evils
of child labor, and trust this will be
done; but it must be done by the
actions of the several state legisla-
lures; and do, each of you, in your
several states, all that you can to Sc
cure the enactment, and then the en-
forcement, of laws that shall put a
stop to the employment of children OF