The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-18
HUNDREDS WILL
BE DISAPPOINTED
Children Counting the Days TO
Temperance of Malihlnl
Christmas Tree.

"Dat's de place where we's goin TO
have de malihini tree"
~ know. Amt been see 1t last
Cbrisrnus. I'm goin' to git annuTer
doll baby. 1 been break my last one
all make. I want g haole doll an
bag of dem red an white candies. say,
don It WI wish today was Chrismusf
"Dou What's de use Of doIi'
Me FIR a horn. I hope de guy hands
me one of dem real ole ottermoblle
sopawkers. Den III make de kids wi
kiwiki jump FIR de II tink I'm de real
ting"
Two Of the waits of the city, little
how and hitler girl, part Hawailans,
kicked their bare toes into the sod
as they hung over the fence of Bishop
Park Yesterday morning and built their
air castle plans for the one day of the
wear when all children are supposed to
be happy.
In the meanwhile nothing is being
done to repeat last years success Oh
the maIihini Christmas tree and unless
someone takes the matter in hand very
shortly. these two and hundreds of 9th
err children are going to be disappointed.
Z. Merry Christmas will be a mockery
tn them. because the majority will be
in homes where the grind for the daily
bread leaves no time for Christmas
cheer getting, even the parts in which
all the family may share, TO say moth
mo of "unnecessaries like haole
dolls and automobile horns.
The two who talked yesterday had
no misgivings. Santa Claus in person
had handed them their little gifts from
the wonderful tree last year and hal
told them to be back again in the line
with the hundreds of other kids
p, this wear. Santa Claus is not the kind
of fellow to forget the dates he had
made. OF course he will be on hand
and the band viii play and the crowd
will cheer and everybody will be hap
| nv. To saw that he will not will be
| to insult the best friend of the two and
the other little ones of Honolulu, of all
| races. ereeds, conditions and sizes.
Kakaako was written all over the
| pair who looked across the sodden
| square yesterday and saw it IN their
| childish minds all transformed back as
it was a wear ago. There are said to
be hundreds of other little ones, no
better clad nor nourished than this rag.
ged little pair, in Kakaako, Palama, ke'
walo. Punchbowl, Iwilei and Kalihi
who are reckoning the days between
now and Saturday next. These are tc
be disappointed unless something is
done and done quickly. 1t is nobody ,:
business to take the matter up. Time:
are too good to spare any hours to work
| of this kind. Business, stock market
| automobiles, society, all are rushed
Home festivities are taking up the time
of MANY. Organized charities will set
that the deserving poor are looked
, after.
But what about the children of thu
undeserving poor7 A child is child
Christmas was made for children. TIL,
idea back of the malihini tree is t.
recognize all children, because there il
4 only one kind on Christmas.
III There are enough ladies interested
1 in the tree this season to take the bur
den of the work of buying, decoratin,
| and distributing the gifts. Are Their,
] enough others interested to supply tn
| money! 1t win take five hundred dol
: lars as a minimum. A part of it ha
been promised. There are three or fou
days left during which the rest can b
contributed. In lieu of other mean
D of bringing the affair to head, TIL
Advertiser will receive contribution
and hand it to the ladies willing t
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