Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-02-17
Miss Laventia rremo Tells Inter-
esting Facts Concerning Work
in Hawaii
CONDUCTING NIGHT
SCHOOL AT PRESENT
Many Grown Men Eager to Learn
English and Walk Great Distance
for Opportunity

Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Premo, writes
interesting letters concerning her
work in Hawaii where she is now
teaching Following is her letter IN
part:
Had night school Friday. We have
18 beginners, who can either speak
or read little English. Among them
I have the Japanese teacher-he is
"a years old, and has taught for 10
years in Hawaii. | guess my methods
will be little different from his! His
scholars shout at the top Of their
voices to show that they are study
ing They say many more men will
probably be here next week from
Camp 4, so we each may have about
Is students. I'll tell you when men
who have worked at the hardest kind
of labor will walk two or three
miles to learn English, we feel that
we want them to get their moneys
worth. / wish / could give you a pic
ture of that schoolroom as we stepped
into it last Friday night-to face 18
pairs Of interested, respectful, eager
eyes. These men are in earnest, but
oh, how little English they know
sometimes. The Filipinos all speak
Spanish, but they seem TO have never
gone to school in the PHILIPPINES, and
here my Spanish may come in handy.
But, imag ne how it seemed to pick up
a registration card signed in their
language and to have the man tell me
his name. tried to put those
sounds into English letters.
Interested in Work
We are certainly interested in this
work and think that it will give us
valuable training. In two years, if the
men are willing to work, they ought
to get a pretty fair knowledge Of
everyday English.
MY children were writing letters
in language class, and one little girl
wrote "I have a sister six years, my
brother is four, and the baby is moth
ing" She meant not year old. The
children were telling about their pets.
and this little girl came up in great
grief "My house got nothing inside. !"
She meant that she had no pet pig
or chicken.
I started organized play with my
children, and had relay game. Two
sides line up, the front one in each
row runs to a certain object and back
again and touches the next in his row,
and then runs to the end of his line.
Well, that game was a scream. Those
small orientals got excited, and when
the first runner started back they
all rushed to meet him, and he got
excited and turned around and ran
again. | guess l had as much fun as
they did, but now we have the game
nicely in hand, and they play more
like American children.
In House Near Volcano
We have been here for one week
one happy blissful week. We started
from Piihonua Saturday morning at
10:30, did our shopping had Pake
(Chinese) luncheon, and at 1900 we
started on our 80 mile ride. Had a
hard time finding this place, as II
was out off the main volcano road
and our driver, Kabauchegauma, only
knew the road to the hotel. Well, we
found it, finally. The house is green
and set back from the road in a tan
gle of tree-ferns and under tall trop
ical trees, so that you cannot see
it until you get almost to the steps
The laval (porch) opens directly
into combination living dining room
20 ft. by 40 ft, with a cheerful looking
fireplace at one end and low broad
easement windows along one end
and a kitchen extends along the othe
end The house is very comfortably
furnished and has running water, bu
we have to use lamps. There is {
wood stove for cooking, and sup
ply of wood under the house. Well
I must pass on to other things, as
know you are interested in what W
did
You might think that we would b
tired after getting up early and clean
ing our house, packing food an
clothes for two weeks, running al
over town for our shopping, an
then riding thirty miles, but we wer
so wild to see the volcano that at fou
o'clock we started out to walk-eigh
miles, but first let me tell you we il
quired into the safety of our explol
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