The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-16
Letters From the People

question or two: w nat dld he 90 TO
school fors Does his yearly tuition of
fifty dollars and an hour and half work
every morning really pay for what he
really gets from the school2 These are
the questions / should like my fellow
schoolmate to think about.
The question of "edibles" is one
and has been one of the great thing
for many, many years among the Ha-
waiian people. They love to eat and
they eat freely. They love to treat.
Hardly month or a week passes with
out a celebrating feast kept in honor
of some great event done during the
time. This custom is yet common
among the natives and for this reason
the Hawaiian youths>of nowadays have
tried to follow the footsteps of their
parents which puts them into pilikia
when they go to places where food are
prepared economically for the benefit
of their health and future life. Now
is the best and proper time for every
young Hawaiian to be wise. To learn
to eat healthy foods and to save some
for the stormy days, for those old GUS
toms of excessive eating are dying out
which is the best thing.
/ believe, to the best of my knowl.
edge, that the matron of the school do
not really want to starve any boy. She
knows what is best for the boy to eat,
and every boy should take his meal
cheerfully without murmuring over it.
Again I would ask my fellow school
mate to read the Life of Abraham Lin
coin, one of the greatest man the world
| has ever known. Read over his boy
hoods days. Splitting rails to earn a
living. A morsel of dry bread for day.
| Studying under the light of a candle
stick (no electric lights or gas lights
! like now, and we never found him
sleeping during his study hour. Later
we find him in the White House, a
ruler of a great nation. This is only
one incident out of hundreds of many
Others, and if thousands of other boys
| have succeeded in life when compelled
to live a life like Abraham Lincoln did,
why could not a Hawaiian boy with
wholesome food for breakfast and first
/ class training, be able to go ahead and
! do the most hecan with less kicking? If a
! hoy thinks that the Kamehameha School
| does not suit him / would advise him
! to yacate the place. 1t is not a place
for kickers. If boy thinks that the
Academic studies at Kamehameha are
too simple for him | would again ad
wise him to go to some other school
for Kamehameha is no place for boys
who are too smart. If boy thinks
that the punishment for his wrong do
ings in school is too severe, | would
advise him again to stop wrong doing'
or leave the school. Kamehameha is
no place for such boys, and it is my
intention that my .schoolmat,
should understand that school regula
tions are not made for good boys, bu
for bad boys. If boy thinks tina
eight hours sleep is not enough fol
him / would advise him hundred
more times to go somewhere else where
he can sleep as long as he likes. Re
member some of the sayings in Poo
Richards Almanac which says, earl,
to sleep early to rise makes the MAJ
healthy, wealthy and wise"; GA sleep
ing fox catches no poultry
/ think ! have said enough and il
conclusion ! am asking the parents ant
guardians of many children to join mi
in this and am also asking my fellow
schoolmates to keep on going to school
Do not be discouraged by what other
may say about our school. ] am,
A KAMEHAMEHA STUDENT.