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Show thin Governmentagencies with t,heir complicated and somewhatheavy machinery. Etforts 111adei1t1h isdirection by Miss Frances C. Sparhawk, of t.he Indian Industries Leagne, by a gronp of genen,ns philanthropists at Santee, by the Jesuit fathers st Ccenr d'A16ne and at the Flathead Agency, by Miss Sybil Carter at White Earth, and other si~nilawr ork elsewhere have yielded results which place such enterprises beyond the stage of tentative experiment. Success is assured wherever devotion, common sense, courage, and faith unite in si~nilare fforts. Such agencies or posts might become ralnablc helpers of school officials in their etforts to establish aud extell11 t,he outing system so auspiciously hegnn and so skillfully managed at Carlisle. It is gi-ati-fyiug to learn that at Perris in California, at Phcenix and other points in Arizona and New Mexico, at Carson in Nevada, and at a few other schools the introduction of this system is roeet,ing wlth promising suc-cess. 111 Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, and other mountain States progress in this matter in discouragii~glys low for manyreasous, amone which an ~u~reasonindei's like of Indians is tlie chief one. In ~ -~ i l l th&e localities tho phi l an~hr~pi c~oosrt asg encies iould do muchto dissirrate ureiudice in directions and ways from which Government officials a k p ~acticallye xoloded. DAY SCHOOLS. Much good is being arcomplished by t.he da,y acbools which have been esta1)lished on a number of reservations. ax \\.ell ns bv the indeoendent day nel~t~uilns loc;~liti~resl nota from reaerviltio~~a1.; 11 aluong'l~l~liwn\l not other\riso cal.ed fbr hy the Oove r~~me~T~hte. reservution day schools, more particularly, are to be counted among the most efficient factors for the civilization of the Indian home. Aside from the fact that the childre11 are here taught to speak, read, and write English,,and the rudiments of arithmetic, drawing, and singing, they are trained in the domestic art.8 and habits of life of the ivhite man, and lreqnently receive some iustn~ctiona nd training in gardening, farming, the care of domestic animals, and in the use of tools. In all cases where this is feasible husband and wife are emnlovnd. ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ - - c ~ ~ - < --~. respeetivrly, as teacher aud hoosekeeper in these schools. .\iucll atten-ti011 i d given to tile dress R I I v~I e:inli~~eosf ~t he chiltlren. A l i ~ l1~10t~ 11. day meal, prepared by the girls under the housekeeper's supervision, is served. Some instruction in sewing and lauuderiug is given, and the boys learn what the place affords with reference to manual and indus-trial work. From the school the children carry their lessons daily to their homes, and wherever the school is aided by the influence of a firm, judicious, humane, and er~ergetic agent it exerts a steady pressure upon the Iudiau home, slowlybut surely guiding it into ways of decency, morality, and thrift, and preparing i t to yield to the s t ro~~gperre ssure which is to come from the influence of tlie boardi~igs chools and higher traiuit~g scl1ools. Moch, however, still remains to be done to make these schools more effective and to enable them to yield a ft~llere turn for themoney spent ilpon them. For this p u p~o se it is desirable, wherever this is feasible, to establish in connection with each s~ichd ay scl~ooel n ample vegeta-ble garden, to furnish means to keep a f..w cows and a teamof horses, to provide afullnoonday meal forthe children, and to equip a workshop for 11lain carpelltry and blacks~nitlling and for sloyd. These schools, too, should be the permanent homes of teacher and housekeeper for the full twelve mouths of the year instead of only for |
