Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume XXIX, Number 28, 12 July 1890 — Our English Column. [ARTICLE]

Our English Column.

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IN( 1 k rnn/< oksk. I «li' f,ī\\ «khew v >u, n.y yo*jr»c' alf!ur whi< h I rt<e;ved t » ;rom Holualoa. H.j] ja oa. f'J®e 5. Deir Un« ie Phil — ?>ein fc - in !he "Kuokoa" :h*t y-'».j are me to wnte an Kr/1 *h )e\cr *o vii), so I ?h»nk it 11 a * ood thin ft - for rr»c to da. I rcM(ie in Hiiiua'ioa, Noilh Kf>n2. >)av»an l am , »ntecn yeirs o!d. I nave one hun«irt< hool mate* In th-\ m hoo', I -;•:<!> ar thmct'<, <rrertaland wn: :<:nt. j>mt:re har<l writin4 and < omp(Mtion. My teachef n Thomai Au. who w;th g<> t\ in?ertion brir u* t" a si, fhT>leN and many (tht r>» I'!casc, Un<!e I'hil, u you find any rnistakc in m> writirg or tcll me again. I remain, Joseph Kealalio. \ ery well wr,'ttcn, Joseph. Vou pr.i< ti< e hand wnting to somc g od pi,rp<)««.•, as ) )ur letter shows, Ihe is also < crre< t, and Unele l'hil tninks y<»ur tea< hcr, with hi> intention is d a work. Vou sa>. J< seph, th.it 'you have nothing t > say ahoi t y>ur home.' Unele Phil is s<irr> to hcar that. Now, h'.ys and prls ( I < thcr < .vil*/t*d rountric* think a <lcal of thcir homes, and do what thc> < an to make thcm bcautiftjl. ( 'an vou not te!l !he rtst of the young an>und this whether your home is up <>n the niounlain side, or ncar thc sh'»re? Are there any < ueoanut trccs in the yard ? Un< le Phil rcincrnl>crs well tht of <:o< oanut trces ar<»un<l thc s< hool houscs from Keauhou to Holualoa, and how, when he wcnt into j s< hool hou.se to cxamine the s( hool, a small hoy would slip out <<i the house, anti in a few minutes, would < ome ha< k again wieh some swctt young <ocoanut in his hands. fU.t that was when you, Joseph, were onl\ nne year old; so you would not rcmemhi'r it. And now, you h<>ys and 01 H.iwaii nei. the lovc of home i 'jmes l)t forc the love of < ountry. A man without a home <annot heeome thc l>cst kind of a < iti/.cn. l>ecause he nrthinn in the <ountrv to l<>ve. Hut n he has a pleasant home and about that home that he cares a ile.il tvr, thcn he will do his best to keep the < ountr> sate frorn enemics. L'fu:le IMIII will h.ivc somtthing more to Miy al>out home and < ountry by and bv. Ur.< le l'hil has had two letters morc lrotn thc Kailua school, answerin£ the <jucstions printed in the "Kuokoa" of May -v»th. Moscs Makuakane writes; "I>ear Unele Phil; Hy the issue of the "Nupepa Kuokoa'" of the ;4th ot May, l saw that you are wanting some of our Hawaiian b#ys and girls to answer your qucstions whu h you havc givcn in it. So I search and tind their answers." Anil thcn he givcs the same answers as those l have »lready hael printed, and they are correct; but as the voung tolks around mv pf.sk know now what those answers are, I will not print thcm again. Search for the answcrs of the othcr pu/zic, Moses, and see if you will not be the f*)rst one to scnd them to ihe i>ksk. Vour letter is a ?ery neat one, and the words are «II sp«lled right. Wnte Unele Phil a lcttcr, «nd teU him the news around Kailu», and I will let the rest of the boys and girls who < ome to our corner read it.

Willie Kaili aUo writes a v<ry neat lettcr in a vcry niee handwriting f from Kailua. Nut l ihink, Willie h«s not jlone very (ar in gramroar; and he mi*sjh?l!s somc ot his words. I will copy a sentcnce or two of WiUie'* letter, so that thc rcst of you, ean rorrect thcm» and let me know how you would write them.

Willie writes, "lt » an intCTtst thing for me wheo I have setn noiiee of thc J4th of May, that yoo ha*e given in the Nupepa Kuokoa. So K bcgan to work and I find thcir tnswer&." You have worked weU, W»Uic, and when you have studicd more, you will make fewer mistakcs. Thc Eng 1 ish is a hard language to wnte correctly, and so also is your mothcr tongue, the Hawaiian Unguage. Perhaps it would surprtae you young Hawaiians, if Uoele Phil should teil you, that but very (ew Hawaiian boys and girls to day» know how to write a rorrect letter in Hawanan. But Hia true. And it is true too, that not tnany *chool boys or gir\t eao mrit« their mother toogue, the English language, correctly. his only by practning a loog time* for yean» ihat any laogua*e ean be uaed eoweell/. 90, 4*o't givt k

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