The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-31
ONE REASON FOR
THE SCHOOL BILL
CONDITIONS AT THE GIRLS
INDUSTRIAL ARE
SHAMEFUL.

OF all the schools asking for help
from the present legislature one Of
those most In need Of the same Is the
Girls Industrial School. You could
hardly balieve the conditions existible
unless you saw them with your own
eyes. It costs nothing to 20 and look.
The very object of the institution is
defeated by some of the present exist.
ing conditions. Is it not the object
Of the school to take the girls and
make them more modest, tidy in their
habits, to give them good schooling
both in booklore and housekeeping and
above all to make them healthier and
strongerI
Is il conducive to modesty to have
girls from three to eighteen years of
age all disrobing and dressing in the
same roomq Is it easy to form a taste
for tidiness when there is no closet for
dresses or receptacle for any little
keepsake or trinket the girl may be so
fortunate as to possess9 Is the study
lin the school room any more attrac.
tive if you are in your teens and have
to bunch up into desk made for the
kindergarten Do the intricate stitches
of lacemalSing become any easier, when,
within ten feet there are two dozen
irons heating on red hot stovef Is it
healthy for a girl coming from race
susceptible to tuberculosis to often
have to carry her tray of food for the
distance of half a block through pour
ing rain and then sit down in wet cloth
ing to eat the meal or to spend an
hour doing her own washing where the
pouring rain is beating in back of her3
The lovers of the beautiful koa and
other woods who tell sorrowful tales Of
the appetites of the pesky little worms
who attack their treasures should take
one look at the industrial school and
for ever after hold their peace. The
worms have long ago finished with the
buildings and are now on the last lap
with all of the wooden furnishings and
have given notice that the next articles
in their demolishing campaign are TO
be the iron beds.
1t may sound laughable but it is no
fun to be awakened from a sound sleep
to find that you are slowly slipping
through space and to get up and find
that one or two of the legs of your
bed have broken through the floor and
it is hard to return to the land of
dreams when you have no assurance
that the next time you will not be
awakened to find yourself and bet
poised on the edge of one of the tables
, | in the dining-room below. Again you
could sleep much easier if you knew
there was some sort of a fire escape
, from the she'll you are in and the fact
that you have just seen the outside
stairway removed to keep it from re
moving itself does not help one little
bit.
OF course, cold baths are delightful
in the tropics but warm bath once il
a while is not liable to work any harm
tc young girl. If you do have Il
, take cold baths entirely, shower il
the most invigorating and healthy OF
the cold bath menu. 1t may be because
D we are behind the times that you d.
not appreciate showerless shower
, bath.
These are only few of the every-da!
, problems there are innumerable others
( For instance, here is n regular "hov
. old is Ann" puzzler If you have forty
0 one girls and six washtubs and each o
: the forty-one girls must do her wash
: ing IN the same day and can not ac
!. complish it in less than one hour, wha
4 day in the week is long enough to per
: nit the full list to get their washing
= on the linei
q Another poser is: If you have
y wormeaten building forty years old an
d you can not get a carpenter to TAX
n any job of repairing because the nail
h refuse to hold in thin air where vii
n you find patent paste guaranteed t
e repair the same buildingss