The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-04-07

1ul, II Is believed that there will be n
difficulty in finding households tha
will take them and give them a hom
and send them to school, in exchang
/ for the service they can render.
Yes. suppose the determination t,
bring the children here was formed
suddenly" said Miss Beard yesterda!
afternoon. Il had thought about tn,
matter and thought about it. 1 did no
know what to do. These people wht
wanted to have me removed as guard
ian had said to me that if 1 submitted
and did not make trouble and f1gh
the case they would not push matter:
to eXtremities, and they would let me
down easy. But I met the matter ir
spirit different from what they ex.
pected. I told them I would not fight
the matter in the courts. But after
thinking it over. l decided that it would
be better for the children to bring them
here to Honolulu, and place them in
families where they would be taken
care of than to let them fall into the
hands of the men who are trying to
get control of them.
II don't have to remain in a COM
munity that has treated me as that
community has been treating me. There
are other places where orphanages are
needed. I have. given my time and
my money for ten years for the or
phanage in Kona. I have attended to
my own business. I have found enough
to do in caring for the children. Part
of the community seems never to have
taken kindly to the institution in it's
midst. NJ. F. Scott never visited the
institution, so far as 1 know, until the
present matters came up. Now he is
the one who is proceeding against me
to have me removed as guardian Of the
children and to have Mr.. Overend put
in my place. I am a Christian, and
have taught these children Christian
ity. Mr.. Overend is a man of the
world. Therefore it seems better to
me that the children should be put in
families to be cared for than to be
put under his care and control"
. Was that the only alternative?" was
asked. ''They could not secure your
removal as guardian without showing
to the court that it was for the best
interests of the children that you
should be removed. Suppose you had
defended the proceeding in court and
the court should have refused to re-
move you, would not that have ended
lt?"
Miss Beard admitted that she had
not considered that view of the matter
fully, but replying she said: "I don't
know what kind of a judge there is.
Qt,f 6a
as it is it would have been
hopeless. People, since this matter be-
came public, have seemed to think
they had a right to come to the Or
phanage to criticize, and to ask the
children if they were getting enough to
eat, and if they would like something
different; people many of them who
never visited the Orphange before. Peo-
pie met the children on the road and
stopped to question them. The seeds of
unrest had been sowed among the chill
lren. Mr.. Overend the other day came
over to the institution when 1 did not
happen to be there, and told the boys
to go over to his canefield and drive
he cows out of it-not the cows be-
onging to the Orphanage. but some
Dther cows. Such interference as that
was making it impossible to carry on
he work successfully. That is why
determined not to fight it in the courts
here but to bring the children here"
But if the proceeding to have you
'emoved as guardian of these children
$ carried on in the court, and you
10 not defend it, and are removed as
rdian
ID, may the guardian not come over
lere and have a legal right to take the
children from the families where you
'lace them and take them back?" was
lsked.
Il had never thought of it in that
light" replied Miss Beard. Il suppose
lie might. But I hardly think he will. |
No proceeding has yet been begun in
'ourt. They have only threatened to |
lave it brought. 1 think they We're
,lufing. Besides 1 am the legal |
guardian of very few of the children. !
never had myself appointed guardi-
IN except in cases where l thought it I
night be necessary to protect the /
'hild. But the papers they prepared |
asked for my removal as guardian of
hese, and the appointment of Mr.. |
Ill the others as well.
What was the dietary of the Or
,hanage? Milk and vegetables and /
eggs. Why, we have |
,leven Jersey cows at the Orphanage !
md acres of vegetable gardens. Be
sides the work that the children were
lble to do in the matter of gardening !
and taking care of the cows, I hired /
l japanese woman and three or four
nen according to the amount of work |
o be done at different seasons. Did
he children have enough? OF course, /
hey did. Why no institution or place
ever had such a record for health as
he Kona Orphanage. We never had |
my sickness there. DR.. Wall, who !
ooked after the children's teeth, told !
ne that he could tell almost exactly |
now long a child had been in the Or
phanage by examining its teeth If it .
lad been there only a short time, its
teeth were soft. If it had been there
onger its teeth were winter and hard
ar If il had been there a long time
its teeth were white and hard What
ioes that show? Why that the food
hey 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. Mr.. 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
IN the nnmher of nrnils in har. schnnl