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Show INDIAN SCHOOL INSTITUTES. 429 OUB SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTS. 8. dl. McCowan, swerhtendent, Cluiloeco Agricultural school, Oklahoma.- At the commencement at the Chilocco Agricultural School a class of Chippewa boys and girls sang a hymn in their native tongue. The boys who graduated fronl the agricultural departments appeared on the stage in overalls and checked shirts, and demonstrated what they had learned in the various branches of work. The girls of the making class wore their work-day clothes, set off by neat white caps and cuffs. A Pima girl talked of what she bad learned in this department, while a Chimehuevi made an omelet; a Chippewa knewded dough, ~ ui t i nto molds, and the molds into the oven; a Sac and Fox girl prepared a cake, while a Potawatomi went thru the process of laundering. The perform-ance did not last over eirht minutes. Of course there nrocesses were ire pared beforehand. The s&ing department was represenied by a Chimema girl and her helpers, who demonstrated her talk as "first, to make a simple shirt waist, the following measurements are required." Here the measurements were taken; then drafting a pattern for a plain shirt waist was explained; methods of cutting, hasting, and fitting were taken up; and so on, to the corn-pleted garotent. In this talk there was"nothing said about " managing n gov-ernment," perpetual motion," or the anatomical theories; nothing but a girl's thought spoken as any healthy girl would spenic,.and therefore enjoy-able. The program was less than two hours' long, and the audience appeared interested thruout. AVOID FOSmINQ IN PUPILS PALSE CONCEPTIONS OF LP.E. F. F. Auery, supe&%tendent, Fort Spokane school, Washington-It is always wise rigidly to examine our methods and their results with direct reference to their usefulness to the pupils in after life. If employees would do this, much more valuable work would be accomplished. ATTBACTIVE AND EANITARY SOEIOOLS ARE ESSENTIAL. Eon. L. L. Benbow, county superintendent of public inatruetion, Tacoma, Wash.-Good ventilation, schooirwm adornment, proper light. and an attract-ive playground all tend to increase pupils' interest in their school. ESSENTULT. PRINCIPLES 03' HYGIENE AND SANITATION-HOW TO BE APPLIED. Dr. Charles M. Buchanan, TwlalCp Bohool, Washington.-The fundamental keynote of the solution of this problem could be summed up simply as "ciean-liness." The secret of success in modern sanitation is cleanliness to the point of the ideal. There must be proper sanitary control and supervision nhlced in a proper qualified physician, whose duty it should be to pi.event diseases. The school physician should advise us concerning diet, exercise, he;llth, etc. There should be regular and systematic instruction of a similar nature as to the causes and development of diseases, and the mfthods of prevention should he enlarged upon and form a part of the regular instruction. m E ESSENTIALS OF INDIAN EDUCATION AS QUALIFYING xoa CITIZENSALP. Jay Lynch, superintendent Yaicima School, Fort Simwe, Wash., sent a letter expressing his regret that official buniness prevented him from attending the institute. His views on the subject, he said, would be fully exprest by reading from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affnira for 1905, under the headings wherein the educational policies for the Indian Omce are outlined A repeated reading of these pages would, he thought, be of great benefit to all em-olov.ees . THE DAY SCEIOOL AS A PACTOR IN INDIIN EDUCATION. W. P. Gquirea, day-school inepector, standing Roclc Agency. North Dakota.- The location of the day school in the midst of Indian homes is a livinr example of cleanliness and indnstry, and if the day-school teacher takes a living interest in his school he can rradualiv arouse interest amone the old Indians in the raising of gardens an5 caring for poultry. Wbat the child is taueht in the school he often carries home with him at night. He tries to plant on his father's ground a little garden like that he has been taught to make at the day school. The rudiments of carpentry, sewing, cooking, and other general |