The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-10
MISSION GIvERS
IN HOME CHARITY
Bishop Restarick Writes Of the
Splendid Work Done BY
Them in Honolulu.

Editor The Advertiscr:-I ask for
space to answer letter appearing in
The Advertiser, December s, signed
ga Mother. - In the first place she
asks the question, why girls committed
to the Industrial School should be al
lowed to 20 to work in the homes of ap.
proved families. Mr.. Cathcart, the
prosecuting attorney in the Nc Corriston
trial, stated the case admirably. Ho
spoke as follows:
| 90 the Girls Industrial School
large number of young girls, as they
grow to more maturity, or as their
physical strength develops, it is neces-.
sary that they earn their living, and
that is done by securing places in famil-
les. They are allowed out to work
in these families as servants, and they
are still, so to speak, wards of the Ter
ritory. II would be impossible, or If
not impossible it would be very detri-
mental to retain in these schools the
girls until they reach the age of eigh.
teen when in physical strength and ma
turity they are able to earn their own
living.
"When these girls go out as serv-
ants in this way they should be OK
empt from molestation. They should
be Just as free from all the atten
tions of men as though they had re-
NAMED in the school. That can only
be possible by it being understood
generally throughout the community
that they must be let alone. That, if
yielding to the weakness of human ma
ture any man, either young or old,
succumbs to their allurements or their
enticemeuts, he does so at his peril,
and punishment may be meted to him
in proportion to his otlcuse. When
this is understood distinctly through
out the community those girls who, as
| say are wards of the Territory, are
to be let ont with the full assurance
on the part of the matron and the
public in general that they will be
MS safe from all seduetions as though
retained in the walls of the girls re
form school.
have personally known many girls
sent out to families from the Industrial
| School do exceedingly well. Now FOL
the last part of the letter signed "A
Mother" We read as follows:
off, Mr.. Editor, one half of thu
money spent on foreign missions for thu
/ bringing of the Light to Darkcs
Africa, China, Japan, etc, by the goo'
; citizens of Hawaii, was used for tn
l. proper housing of the tenement dwelle
/. and the poor people, we would hear les
9 Iof the crime of rape, and there woul'
he no occasion for n sermon at Contra
II Union Church on The Bitter Cry o
C the Children
!. We are glad that Mother" is inter
ested in the tenement question, but W
a wish she had made herself acquainte
&c with facts concerning the giving to fol
J. eign missions both here and in tn
e country at large. The inference froI
re the paragraph quoted above is that tn
i. people who give to foreign mission
\. neglect the needs of the home
k Let us begin Mt the end and befor
At discussing the amount given let MS ms
who today is actively engaged, not onl
n in talking about tenement condition
y, but who are also on large scale built
. ing good cottages with excellent san
u tary arrangements and placing them {
low rental for the poorer people.7
'e Those who are doing this are I'll
very people of the Central Unto
ID Church and st. Andrew 8 Cathedra
ID missions. ! know one man, n lars
It. large plans for the building of hous'
re which will take the Hawaiian Poop
III out of the tenements. The Palama Sc
n Element, which is supported by tho
-. who give to missions, has built mar
f. houses and has plans for the futur
re AT st. Elizabeth Is, Palama, sever
RS years ago, large lodging house WI
C. erected, and was Immediately filed
young men, who came from wreteh'
rooms and tenements. There men we
charged as rent for rooms the amour
20 which they formerly paid for their j
e. ferior accommodations. Later ON hous
K were built ms fast as possible for far
Ks lilies, and all these were engaged befo
re the foundation was laid by famili
~ who came from wretched old shack
ca They got clean and neat looking hons
ty with excellent plumbing for the sar
rent which they had been paying
ct the buildings which they left And y
ed fair amount of interest il made
en- the Investment. st. Elizabeth's h
or frequently been offered $25 month
cd well-to.do people for houses which n
a rented for $l4 TO respectable work.
a people who could pay no more. o
"a can readily see that man having
~ salary of $50 Il month and who has
wife and eight children could not p
$25 n month for a house. The point
4. this, the people who are behind
~ Elizabeth are men aud women W
W are Interested In foreign missions.
~ n heart il open by the appeal of huma
ity at large II IN not likely 10
y" damned mp by appeals made nearer
nc home, The fact IN II heart IN open
by tho great needs, moral aud spir
q nal, of mankind generally II lows o
more freely, not less freely, 10 me
tho needs at home
Of Practical Work Done.
10. We do not like 10 ask what -
a. Mother" h doing herself by gifts
n, service for the cause towards VIII
pn she ihinka others should give IA,
"a time aud money Perhaps shn b doll