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Show REPORT OF THE COXMISSIOREIL OF ISDIAN AFFAIRS. 55 The result naturally was that into the one-roomed log houses were taken the habits of ont-of-door life-irregular meals, rarely washed cook-ing utensils and clothes, an assortment of dogs, a general distribution among corners and on the floors of bedding and personal belongings, and a readiness to consider the floor a not inconvenient substitute for bed-steads, tables, and chairs. Open 6res and ventilation gave place to the vitiated atmosphere of a close room overheated by a box stove. The occasional cleaning of house 'md grounds, which was previously effected by the removal of the house itself to another spot, being no longer prac-ticable, accumulations of refuse gathered both inside and out. Dirt, disease, and degradation were the natural couseqnence,s. It is no won-der that Indians sometimes fail to take kindly to civilization presented in such guise, especially if, as is often the case, the floors are earth and the dirt roof 1ea.k~n; or that the tiretunled students" recoil from the squalid home, deprived of the freedom, fascination, and quasi dignity of a roving life. The Indian woman has the conservatism and the subservience to custoni of her sex. She also has thereadii~esst o sacrificeher own feel-ings for the sake of 11er children, and will do whatever she realizes to be for their good. Her fingem are deft wit11 the needle, and she will dress her children like those of her wliite neighbor if she knoms how. She wants to give them the best of care in youth and in illuess if some one will only shorn her what is best and help her to it; but she is bound and thwarted by ignorance, poverty, aud long-estd~lishedtr ibalcustom. Of course in all Indiari boarding schools girls are instructed in the various brauches of housekeeping; but unless a comparatively large number from one locality remain in school for a considerable nnmber of years it is unreasonable to expect, though it is often demanded, that on their return they shall speedily aud nnaided reform the home life of their families aud even their neighborhoods. Moreover, a large school has routi~learrangemeuts; subdivision of labor is closely marked ant, daily ta,sks a.re regularly assigned, and what is i~eedfulf or the wo1.k is sup-plied to the worker. At home, school training and habits mnst be adapted to the varying conditions and emergei~cies of houselceepiug, where food supplies are soauty and irregular, ordinary honseliolcl appli-ances are wanting, and even the water may be poor in quality and lacking in quantity. The courage, indust,ry, ingenuity, economy, patience, and perseverailce which the situation calls for ought not to be expected of a girl who has spent only some three to six of her sixteen to eighteel1 years among civilized surroundings. Indian girls do some-times fail, and white girls mould be expected to fail, under such circum-stances. The need of outside help at just this point has loug been recognized by missiorlary societies, and 110 small lirol~ortioo~f ~th e ueat an+ well. ordered homes ~ ~ l i i acrhe found a.nioog Inclik~nsa re drte to the l&bo~:isn |