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Show . . . REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 343 expression, quite helpful in the acquisition of spoken language and as ameans of develooinrr the child's aesthetic sense. Ohildren are taught to tell simple sto6e~,-to make sentences, and to prepare lists of thiGgs with the help of simple outline sketches. With the help of kindergar-ten material. which a number of teachers hare learned to use intelli- ~ - ~ ~ gently, cl~ildreua rc taught to use si~l~plcforemle mcnt~in symmetrical and decorative arranrrements. \lecl~anic:al alld industrial drawing in conneetion with the -teaching of industries has entered a number of schoolrooms. At the same time special talent is not ncgllscterl and is given free scope and ample assistance. In some schools the use of water colors has been introduced, and with their help drawing is being made as effeotive in developing the chid's love of the beautiful through the eye as is music in stimulating the same love through the ear. PHYSICAL TRAINING. The anthoritv for the distribution among teachers of a manual on popr~lar gymna"*tica came too late in tho Gar to enable mH to secure :ipprevial)lc rewlts in the irorli oi tho schools. llowerer, during the summer institutes 1 was able to secure the fiervicevof JIr. 1V.G.Thomp-son, t l ~ el ticient disriplinal.ian ol'tl~oC 3rlislc School, and 111s presents. tion of the snQicct of l~hyniealt railling during rho \veekls baanio~o~f the slrrnuler ir~stitutesb oth at Lawrer~coa nd St. 1';1111 will. 1 llevono doubt, bear excellent fruit in the Indian schools during ihe ooming year. At the same time, I have directed the attention of teachers and superintendents to the important subject by instituting among them a systematic inquiry iuto the character of indigenous Indian games and their influence in the lifeof Indian youth. Even the casual visitor of an Indian school must be forcibly im-pressed with the desirability of persistent and systematic physical training in suitable games and methodical calisthenics and gymnastic exercises, in order to overcome the lack of grace and vigor in the general bearing and in the movements of the children, and iu order to secure the organic soundness and solidity of physical development of which grace and vigor are symptoms. This is more necessary in Indian schools because of the adverse influence in this resaect of the indnstrial occupations in which the children must of nicessity be engaged during a great portion of the time. Only a judicious and persistent course of physical trading can overcome the distorting influence of one-sided industrial occupations, and thus protect the youth against the deleterious influence of such occupations without depriving them of the benefits which they confer. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. Corporal punishment is steadily yielding along the entire line to more thoughtful and humane neth hods of discipline. The conviction is e a i n i u ~g round. on the basis of exaerience and observation. that therod &d the ghardhoutit. i~ppealO I~ItoJ .I o\v nlotivt.s and p&veur ~nisclemennorso nly so loug as the ql~ention;lllci llrentire of fear lasts; that they uever reach or establisl principle i l l the ehild'a mind, and atlord, therefore, no gunrnnty of goo11 muduet wlicr~ the pupil leaves tllo suhool, uor even whell tht. watehtul eyo of tlte w:l~ool is withdrilw~t fr10m hiill temporarily, when ho hopes to rludc cliricovrry or \rllen the l~leasnvo~f. yieldiog ti, temptntiol~b ;ls Illore val116.i n hid eyes ~ I I : I I I the dreadcd pauelty. Ajiaiu, scLool otiicials are makiug the discovery |