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Updated: April 30, 2025
It is the whim of this old woman to call it a 'Home for Curables' which, of course, is only a whim. Will you come to see me as soon as you can and let us talk it over?" Margaret MacLean folded the letter slowly and put it back in its envelope. "You see," she said, the little-girl look spreading over her face "you see, you mustn't take us back again.
My wife has bought an old place, in the real country, three miles out on a road that turns off from the main road to the city. She is going to fit it up for a hospital for crippled children, curables, mostly, though her heart may lead her into keeping a few of the other sort, if there is no other home for them to go to. I'm to have the distinguished honour of being surgeon to the place."
"Why," cried a bright kindergartner, "don't you give twelve and a half thousand to some Home for Curables, and then your other twelve and a half will go so much further?" In a word, solicitude for childhood is one of the signs of a growing civilization. "To cure, is the voice of the past; to prevent, the divine whisper of to-day." What is the true relation of the kindergarten to social reform?
In return for this, and because you deserve to be punished just a little for yesterday I shall try my best to take with me Margaret MacLean and your House Surgeon." She laid a hand on both, while she added, softly: "Suppose we three go home together and talk things over. Shall we?" So the "Home for Curables" has come true. It crests a hilltop, and is well worth the penny that Bridget gave for it.
The tasteful but temporary English Cathedral, the Kaiwaiaho Church, diminished once to suit a dwindled population, but already too large again; the prison, a clean, roomy building, empty in the daytime, because the convicts are sent out to labour on roads and public works; the Queen's Hospital for Curables, for which Queen Emma and her husband became mendicants in Honolulu; the Court House, a staring, unshaded building; and the Iolani Palace, almost exhaust the category.
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