The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-12
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M0IHtRs DAY EXERCISES

s'Get onto the palm garden, pipet
up one small Bible school tchcllr %
he stood in the doorway Of Central
Union Church yesterday and garei at
the display Of tropical plants wiish
covered the great platform built around
the nsral Tostrun. Every Sunday school
teacher WIS, asssiled y numerous qu y.
tions, 'fWhat 5 the big stage fort,
Sis this chillren's Sundayip unit the
pupils learned that May 10 was Moth.
er e Sunday, and the big platform
had been erected for the large chorus
which was to present {" The Sc en- Last
Words of Christ" at the evening terv-
ice.
Teachers and classes agreed that it
was no small task to transform &. eat,
bare platform into a tropical bower,
as did Mrs. s. D.. Barnes and her able
eoadjutor, Mrs. w. M. Graham. Ferns
palm branches, pets Of dodaetus and Of
palms wrcathed the platform, while M.
merous lunches Of palm blossoms, spi-
der and Easter lilies added their white,
ETHEREAL beauty to the heavier Presn
background. The effect was artistic
in the extreme and gave great ses hetic
delight to the. audiences which filed
the church throughout the day,
Mrs. Fresr Malxes Address.
The Bible school commemorated
Mother s Day most fttingly all the
teachers and pupils wearing white ear,
nations or some other white flower -
while the address of the morning was
given by Mrs. Walter +. Frear Mrs.
Frear said in part: losf'
''All the world has, a mother; and
all the world is coming to love a
mother. When J. say all the world, we
remember that little Topsy said she
Just growed,' and sometimes thsrs
seem to BIO exceptions like this, but
IL is the exceptions which prove the
rule.
when we look out into nature we
see the cases where the mother seems
only an excuse for being. We lcok
into the ocean or stream and see the
hsh eggs which hatch without the care
or thought of the mother, or mosquitoes
laying eggs to become myriad little
.wrigglers. Thus we begin the study Of
the evolution Of motherhood.
: In the bird we see the most ex-
quisite example of motherhood, as the
poets Stevenson and Lowell have sung
of it. The very littlest child will thrill
with JOY 10 see the bird building a.
nest, the appearance of the eggs. the
careful brooding and final rapture when
the ugly little things break through
the shells. So in the horse neither and
eow-mother and cat-mother we see this
same careful tenderness. Then We have
the marsupial mothers, and this makes
us think of the little brown women
who carry their babies about on Tn II
backs, always having them near while
they are busted with other tasks. Then
there are the little sister mothers.
who mother younger brothers and sis
tiers while the real mother has to be
away from home at work.
Birthday Is Mothers nay.
Then out of the mother heart. Of
the world institutions for caring for
motherless children were deveIopod
and these were organized as best they
could be, until students Of charities
and social experts decided that the in
dlYldual care for a child in u private
family was better than any institution,
and now they are trying to hold
nome together, even a fragment Of
home, If necessary penslonine the
mother, 50 that she may keep her little
oLes together. #
Have You ever thought that the
birthdays which all your friends con.
sldeT your special day is really your
mothers dayf Some of us feel that
on our birthdays IL is mother who
'tion. o.. "a " /, y " J
Spring is the birthday of the
world. When one wakes 10 tho early
morning one hears ii in the bird. notes,
secs 4 in the soft growth Of the trees,
The old mother trees and plants have
generously given Of their life, shaken
~ out in millions OF seeds, nsyer. kpo y.
ing where they win grow. In that
wonderful play, The Blue Bird, By
M!aeterlinek, two Of the most impres-
siNe scenes were where the children
visit the land Of the future, whore the
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