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Show I I REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 393 upon the older Indians can be plainly seen. These Indians are becom-ing more enlightened and conforming more rapidly to the habits of civilized life than those who are far removed from the influence of the schools. The child on going to his home at night carries with him, consciously or unconsciously, the civilizing atmmP here of the school. The lessons of cleanliness and neatness, especial y, are not lost. On a recent visit in Arizona among one of the most backward tribes I noticed a little Indian girl, when the old people were eatin their diu-ner upon the ground, leave her mother's side and f o back of the tepee, where she found a keg, upon which she place a board and care-fully laid over it an old piece of sacking, and on this improvised table she placed her tin can of soup. Following up the history of this child I found that for a few months the previous ear she hadattended a little day school, where a warm, substantial mi day meal was served upon a table, and unconsciously she was introducing into the camp of her arents the methods of eating from a table and upon a cloth. $e have been constantly urging day-school teachers and housekeep-ers to follow the inst~uctionso f the Indian Office and to make it a part of their duties to visit regularly the homes of their 1up.i ls and instruct the parents in proper modes of living, in keeping t elr huts or tepees neat and habitable, how to prepare and cook their food, etc. At the Pine Ridge Agency the day-school teachers made 2,000 such visits last year and the housekeepers 1,000. Records of the results of these visits are kept and semiannual reports made. One of these reports recently made states that in visiting 14 families it, was found that all but 1 ke t their houses clean and took an interest in the cleanliness of their chi f' dren, all slept on beds, 5 kept cows, and 3 had chickens. All took an interest in the school and desired toshave their children attend. In 5 cases the parents paid visits to the school. Eleven planted gar-dens with good success. Five of the Indians raised hay, one harvesting 25 tons. All had sufficient food and clothing, and with one or two exceptions used their money judiciously. Too much can not be said in praise of the work being done by the day schools on the Fine Ridge Reservation. We have endeavored during the past year to induce the day-school teachers and housekeepen, to carry out the instructions of the O5ce and provide a good meal at midday, and have severely condemned the practice at some of the schools of serving cold luncheons. The Gov-ernment ration at a number of the schools is supplemented by ve e tables from the school garden, and the 3r eparation and serving of t% e - meal furnish op ortnnity for the goo housekeeper to instruct the girls in cooking,kow to set the table, wash dishes, etc. The day school serves the purb ! ose of a preparatory school for the more advanced reservation boar ing schools. The day-school inspec-tors have been urged to see that the courses of study are arranged with this end in view, and the ambition for further and more complete education is instilled into the minds of the pupils. We are glad to report that on a recent visit to a number of day schools we found that the instructions in regard to 'bathing were being carried out on some of the reservations, but rcgret, however, to state that on others very little attention was paid to this im2 o rtant matter. Day schools are being encouraged to establish ga ens and, where this haa already been done, to enlarge them and culhvate as large crops of vegetables and small fruits as possible, with the double object of |