Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-18


open arms, as the panacea of our ed
ucational troubles, which would ban
ish idleness from our streets, and
bring happiness and contentment to
our people. What fools those East
ern people must be!
Back I'm the seventies something in
the line of manual training was es-
sayed, and our hired man had IL tried
on him, and he tells the story Of his
boyish adventure as follows:
The Makawao school which he at
tended was happily located near the
cane fields, and his teacher, a game
legged master of arts but not of boys
took the school out presumably to
give the boys course in agricultur-
al training. The cane was sweet and
all boys have sweet teeth, and strip
ping cane leaves was lightsome work,
IL labor II be called, but in a few
days the novelty wore of and the
natural cussedness Of young mankind
asserted itseE.
Next day when the boys were taxi
en- out again to the training fields,
the fast workers worked faster and
the slow ones worked slower, until
the promising band of canefield hands
got scattered, and when the master
went pegging along to give instruc-
tons to one crowd the other scuttled
| fnr nI nj ha nIs fnIlnunH
suit and left him to rage alone, He
suspected where the boys were and
went pegging hither with his walk
ing stick, but playing tag was moth
ing new, and the boys had read up
General McLellan's civil war tactics,
and promptly changed base as often
M needed until the schoolmaster went
home disguised and withal wiser
man. That was the end of agricul-
tural training In that school.
Another time l.. A. Thurston, then
a 12-year-old boy, rebelled at hoeing
a patch Of corn and pumpkins near
the school. The authorities made a
great display to force the youngster
to submit, but they failed ignomin-
iously while the school, wrought to
the highest pitch Of boyish excite
ment, looked on the clash with hearts
Ia the mouth and sympathy for the
rebellious boy.
Our Honolulu editors ought to be
willing TO practice what they preach
on their own children. II would dig
Nifty their contention some IL all the
Honolulu public school boys led by
Algernon Smith or Clarence Earring
ton, each carrying hoe, would
march behind Berger's band to the
railway station and take the EVA
train at noon sharp to do little agii-
cultural training work at hoeing and
irrigating cane afternoons in the EVA
plantation, returning tired and happy
with trained hands at dewy eve
These learned editors have been over
looking another and very important
factor in the question: our better
halves may not consent-and they
count some.
There is also wicked suspicion
that the new proposition is a care
fully yelled movement TO the end that
women be excluded from the public
school teaching corps. For what lady
would willingly take her class of boyi
and girls out among the immodes
average field hands to give them {
pitiful little agricultural training?
Are styles in teachers hats ant
dresses and lingerie to be changed t.
At the new conditions imposed OF
lady teachers II School Superintend
ent Rabbits propositions are to b.
carried out?
Let the department give us bette
schools instead of more new fads OIL
training and education.
Encourage teachers by giving goo'
salaries for good work, instead o
forever putting lleas In teachers eait
TO chill the natural ambition of thos,
who would push bright children alonl