Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-30
Story Is Told Of Christian Work
Now Being Done In Northern China

pupils, but this means progress, as
does the adding or two grades. One
would expect children from the third
through the grammar grades to be
young, but some Of the teachers, lOoh-
ing at the present lot Of fun-loying
youngsters, find it hard not to sigh
for the older, and more responsible
girls Of former years. Yet that meant
that children could not be reached as
now. II you could go into our day
schools in the city or in the country
stations and see the groups OF chill
dren taking their first steps In an edu-
cation that aims to educate, instead
of loudly laboring to mem0rize the
learned classics; IL yon could go to
either of the kindergarten and see the
ring OF happy little folks learning
teamwork and obedience. instead Of
learning to bully their mothers and
to get their own way fand praise for
eleverness besidesJ by screaming for
it; IL. say, you could go to these,
you would be glad that the children
can be reached young, and that pu-
pills in the school are younger than
they used to be.
"Yourger than they used to be-
yes, that is even visible to the naked
eye, If you see the little girls sitting
with their feet dangling from seats
huilt for an older generation. That
the school has grown has its ocular
demonstration, also, in the way the
seats are flied. Suppose it should
grow more? There is grave danger
that it would suffer from cramps But
it is a living thing, so it WIN grow
oil course.
A Literary Dog
The spirit OF learning and making
the most of ones opportunities is so
strong that even the school dog
caught it last year and lost no chance
of open door and unmatched room to
slip in and devour such books and
maps as he could find. To be sure
this rather Iessened the equipment,
never large, but one might take com
fort, perhaps, in the thought that he
destroyed no valuable books of refer
ence, for the school does not possess
them Sometimes in moments Of rev.
cry there float through our minds VI
sions of schools equipped with a
geodfy store of such reference books
as we need amcng those now existing
in the Chinese language, Of walls
adorned with up to date maps, Of still
more pupils than at present sitting nm
crowded at desks of suitable sizes.
and sometimes, in the widest flights
of fancy, OF new organ. Could You
but hear the walls of our decrepit
baby that, ike the preeocious baby
Of tile Pab Ballads, is destined to die
of old age without growing up. you
would have admiration for the cour-
age of the good lady who teaches the
girls to sing. and would marvel at the
results she obtains We may dream
our dreams and see our visions, but
when the slender sums that go into
the treasury come out as fast or fast
er, the hope of their realization Is de-
ferred to an indefinite future.
Contrasts
But the school is doing a great
work. II is unbinding the feet OF girls
that they may travel freely and joy
olsly roads that otherwise were
closed 20 them. that they wofld hard
~ know existed. Look at our girls
neatly and simply dressed, with nor
NAL feet and natural color, bright eyes
and faces fun OF promise. Then go cut