Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-23

lered from the failures in business.
Late in "a was taken III with
broncho pneumonia, and receiving at
that time an appointment as physician
to Koloa. Kauai, ! accepted, sailing
Tor Hawaii In April 1895.
Eptome of Dr. Goodhue's paper on
Objections:
! 1t seems strange to one who sees
the disastrous consequences which are
entalcd upon the race. by lack Of
knowledge Of certain special laws
that any should question the value Of
an untriod system which endeayors to
educate that any should ask where
did the idea OF school originate or
how, or to what effect? All the time
the best educators liying-men none
could accuse of impulse or ardor have
been lamenting over the defects in
our modern education.
Physicians. conservative as ever,
have warned and almost threatened
while books In which are words Of
entreaty, argument. command. con-
| corning the need and our indifference
to 1t lie upon our tables. Let us open
this book with the green covers. and
read. II is Herbert Spencer. ITO
tens of thousands that are killed, add
hundreds of thousands that survive
with feeble constitutions not so strong
as they should be, and you will have
some idea of the curse inflicted on
their offspring by parents ignorant OF
the laws of life. When sons and
daughters grow up sickly and feeble,
parents commonly regard the event as
a misfortune, as n visitation Of prov.
idence. Thinking after the prevalent
chaotic fashion. they assume that
these evils come without causes. or
that the causes are supernatural.
Nothing of the kind! In some cases
the causes are doubtless inherited,
but in most cases foolish regulations
are the causes. Very generally. par.
cnts Themselves are responsible for all
this misery. They have undertook to
control the lives of their children from
hour to hour: with cruel carelessness
have they neglected to learn anything
about the vital processes which they
are increasingly affecting by their
commands ard prohibitions; in utter
ignorance of the simplest physiolOgic
laws, they have year by year been
undermining the constitutions of their
children. and have inflicted disease
and premature death, not only on
them but on their descendants"
Here is DIR. 4. II. Clark, late profess
sor in Harvard Medical school: 1--WE
want special and appropriate edu
cation. The saddest part of II all Is
that this neglect breeds the germs OF
diseases that in later life yield tortur,
ing or fatal malades.' Marion Har
land whose head and heart have not
been separated by degenerative
changes, says: 1T IL the deserved re
proach Of American Girls that they are
educated for anything and everything
except motherhood -
These are only a few who have con
sidered the subject, and been moved
by the dreadful Indifference Of the
public.
Such physicians as Thomas. Byford
King, Starr, Scum, Pepper and Ethe
ridge, tell you that their work is large
~ undoing preventable things. They
voice the opinion of DR.. Thomas. pro
fessor In the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, N. Y: when the day
comes In which our growing girls are
educated, one of the most prolific o,
the predisposing causes Of diseases
will have disappeared" But these
men and others like them. have not
reached the masses-they write fol
the physician and must confess tina,
to the majority Of physicians is due
the Indifference of the people. While
the latter cannot realize their position
not being informal specially, the In
telligent physician must know the
need they have for knowledge. Why
do we remain qulscent? Why are We
slow to approve Of activity along these
lines? Why do we raise objections to
activity? The motives are various
some are selfish and almost criminal
others are sincere DR.. Holmes says
somewhere:
III had not force enough to proiec
principle full IN the face of the half
dozen most obvious facts which seen
to contradict 1t, I would think only
In single file from this day forward
suppose that those who do not Zee
loanlv for causps which do mt inter