The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-11
SAYS STUDENTS ARE HUNGRY.

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Editor Advertiser: I read in YOU
paper the ether day about boy from
the Boys Industrial School writing te
his father to take him cut or he will
die of starvation. This makes me
write something about the Kamehame.
ha Schools.
/ / am very. glad we are having our
vacation now because I can get plenty
TO eat at home while at school we don #
get very much. In the morning we
| only get little rice and enough milk
to soak it down, some bread, a banana,
and chocolate something like dish
water. At noon we gae some poi,
some bread, and some hard roast beef:
and in the evening we get some meat
again, bread, and some tea with hard
~ any sugar in it, the color of dish
water. We want to have plenty of
sugar IN our tea, but the matron tells
us that the white boys do not eat
too much sugar. Som euimes we tell
the waiter to 60 and swipe some SUI
gar, then we have bread soaked in
sugar and water.
This may seem plenty to eat, but
when you have to get up at s in the
morning and go to bed at at night.
ana work hard during all that time, it
makes US feel very hungry at meal
time. You see we get up at 5 in the
morning, at $50 we salute the flag, at
. We have breakfast, at $50 we go
to morning work till about s. At $50
some of the boys go to school while !.
the rest go to the shops. After lunch |
those who worked in the morning go |
to the shops, and those who had shops, |
go TO school. Quite a number of the I
boys have to go to work on the school |
farm to earn their scholarship. Some
times before supper we go to drill for
about an hour, and when supper time
comes we feel very hungry after our
good long days work At 7 p. m. we
all go to study hour till 9 D. M then
we go to bed. A good many boys go
to sleep during study hour because they
are too tired to study. Some of them
sleep on their desks, and the others
sleep on the floor. Once in while
some OF the boys run away after taps
to the Chinese stores in town to geti
some pie.
Some of our older boys went and
saw the Principal about giving us more
to eat, and giving us less hours to
work, but he told them that the school
has no more money, and that we are
lot running the school. | heard that
Mrs. Bishop left plenty of money foz
he Hawaiian boys and girls, and
Wonder where all this money went to.
The other day / saw some of our grad
lates this year working in the engine
Dom at the school for $1.00 a night
II twelve hours, from p. m. to a. m.
rather go and work on the planta-
ions for $3.50 a day than working all
light for s cents an hour
We have funny kind studies at Ka.
nehameha. One teacher asked us
How many hacks are there in Eng :
andg" Nobody can get the answer. :
we do not get our lessons the teach
r makes us run around the school
'u1ldlng till We get very tired. Some !
lines he makes us drill all afternoon :
fter school hour. If the boys get to :,
,e too bad, they are put in Third
ionor, and we have to go and chop
rood all day for the teachers. This ;
) hard work.
Most of our teachers have an easy :
me. They go out on picnics on Mon I
ay, and when the summer vacation
ONES, they 60 back to the states. The
ew teachers who come here laugh at T
S when they see us eating poi. They .
mink we are savages. =
L like the Kamehameha Schools all =