Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-21

-s- Il quay l NESIleu TIE HCSISi hlSSioi
home out at ka.muki
dent know what particular brand
Of religion is taught there. if any but
/ know that good care. enough bread
and butter. are making healthy chill
dren ont OF a lot OF nnde. fed Young,
l.ngs.
! The Home is pleasantly situated
in place which looks and smells
like Southern California: blue hills
in the distance, and pepper trees near
by.
n. Pietsch has already stated that
] tie matron and cook earn more than
they get. Contributors OF clothes,
! bedding. drugs, dressings. ETC., will be
welcome. While there is enough Mon
ey in Honolulu TO build libraries and
finance Carniyals, there ought to be
enough to run this Home in an ade-
quate way
II is worthy object, and if your
gift is one OF the don't.know-what-the-
cther-hand-gi sort, it will help the
children just the same.
Couldn't the kind person who so
generously gave $1,000 towards The
Literary Digest" Belgian fund spare
a. few dollars for this local home?
When this is amply endowed, what
about home for hayward women and
girls?
A place which would provide shelter,
board and moral protection to women
who might avail themselves of such
help until they lived" down things,
and could provide for their own neceS.
sites. ~. .Fr.-<>. ..,.-
A place uHsectarian, with influences
sweet and tends. end wholesome, I'M
patrcnlzingly administered to assist
the inmates toward social response
bility. .a.
Not necessarily eleemosynary, the
benefits, repaid by the beneficiary as
soon as she feels able to do so.
Nearly thirty years ago, Mrs. Wat,
son of Los Angeles made an appeal
for ner Hone for Maynard Girls in
that city. ..*-.:.
AS editor OF daily newspaper, I
took the matter uE, and although
times were hard we collected
enough to establish the home and
maintain 1t until it received adequate
endowment. <..~--.. :. w.. 1
In its administration 1t was a sue.
cess from the start. "a
Women. who were tired OF their way
Of living came to it fer material and
spiritual aid to better way, and
weak girls who had rot chosen any
career were, persuaded into the Wis
dom Of choosing right. /. RI.
The ahistories" Of many .of these
given voluntarily, we're touching In
deed, and revealed to one the solidar-
ity ofSour great human, family; the
kinship. bond between high" and
low, good and bad
Although my contribution towards
this institution was insignificant in
deed, The gratitude of Some of the
inmates was real reward, and their
subsequent careers were full and alb
solute, justification for our faith in
the venture. 50 ...-. -, Y.
For plain reasons the Y. W. C. A.
could not receive such inmates.
Nor under present social conditions
could any respectable ordinary in
stitution do so. .....~ q
The need being special, provisions q
would have to be so. .~.-< Z ).
1t would have to stand alone of its
kind, administered Icy Board Of Di-
rectors very particularly the right
kind of men and women, managed by
a matron built throughout on the
plan, old enough but not
too old. not disappointed in love or
kindly sympathetic, toler-
ant. IL ~
There would be iapses to try. one,
and moral irre.eyances, sometimes dis.
ingratftude. .-, ..-s
Human nature would crop out in its
crosses forms. .s<,-,,.-t. e.