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Show omp pact organization.-The fact, also,,that in the majority of these . 1 schools the diflerent workshops are run independently, and not on an organized plan, is the cause of serious educatibnal lossth the students. We get from them fair carpenters, blacksmiths, cto., who can work passably well under direction, but rarely progressive artisans who coutrol t,he details of hheir trade. A vast eain would come from more compact organizationhf the industrial workY, through the higher devel-opment and increases efficiency on the part of the pupils which must result from such organization. - Throng6 compact ckganization every dollar in expenditureis made to tell in the outcome, whereasloose organi-zation, or lack of it, entails much loss through friction and ill-directed effort. I would earnestly recommend, therefore, to superintendents interested in the solution of this problem to consider the feasibility of modifying the industrial work in their respective schools so as to secure a higher degree of unity and better educational results. This oQject could be obtained by placing a11 of the various departments of industrial work in each subool under the direction of one person, thoroughly posted and skilled in themethods and appliances of the modern manual train-ing and industrial schools, and intrusting the work in the several industrial denartments to comoetent foremen. workine under his direc-tion. ~~1dirion:gruli n might c'on~eiu tl~eind;stri:~lt $iuiug by taking iuto acvouut at t l ~trl itkrenr arl~oolst he 111c:il 111diu11in dustrie~,s nrh as tnnuinp :and l~ottery~ m ~ tnheg l'u eblos, blauliet-\vea\ing ancl silver work alnwlg the Xavajues, boat b~iildii~iigm ung the Indiana of Puget Sound, etc. Domestic industries for girls.-Similar advantages might be gaiued by more compact organization of the varions departments of domes-tic iudnstry in which the Indian girls are trained. Here, too, in kitchen, dining room, laundry, and sewing room, many schools use the children chiefiy as helping bands, and afford them little, if any, sys-tematic instruction in the respective domestic arts practiced in these rooms. That this need not bc the case is abundantly proved by the excellent work done in a number of schools in these directions, where, through judicious supervision, the work in these departments is8ome-what more carefully organized. In order to secure this desirable. more com.~ acto reanization of all ~ ~- these r;rrioux del,nrtmrnt R, sons~on < under the supervieion of the xupcr-intende~ lro f the s(:hool, c h ~ ~ ibl dc laatle thc resuonuiblu head of this work. For this nurnos'e the matron should be selected. She is now in charge of all the'doi~estica W:tirs of the seliool, hi~viogth e general over-sight of the kitchen. I:inndl.y, dir~iugro om, H I I ~da iry. TO this ~hoilld be added the geueral auperriaion of the sewing room and other depart. rnrnt.iol'do~~~exintideu stry that may frorn titnc M) time lje ad(led to the yehool. She dhould h a r ~po wer to insist that ill all these d~par t~nent s thc dettiil of r i r l ~l ~griv eu nor olllv the o~~~or toui ttoi e ws ork for the school, but ample and systematic i<struotion concerning the work done. They shonld not merely imitate manipulations, but know the reasons therefor-arranging dormitories, setting tables, cooking food, yashing and ironing, cutting and fitting clothes, sewing, mending, knitting and embroidering, weaving and plaiting, intelligently, qontrolling the pnr-pose of what they do and the means used iu ~ m p ~ ~ a hthieoir gob jects. Matron's o.~os ition.-It is true that in order to accom~lisht his it will ~~ ~ ~~~ beco&e ueceasary, tirst of all, tosppreeiare j ~ ~ s t5l y; i~;~~o r t aonfc tche matron's oFlice. The m:itron is sot :I mere housekeeper. She s1101ild be to the children a true mother in their rel:ttions to each other and to the |