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Show REPORT OF SUPEEINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 349 I n this con~~ectioIn w ish to congratulate you upon your success in finally overoomiug opposition to steam heating and electric lighting, at least for t l ~ ela rger school plants. The new sol~oolsa t Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Sac and Pox, Iowa, and other places are to be fitted up in this respect iu wccordance with modern requirements and safetg. The school at Phceuix has been granted electric lighting, and t.here is no good reason, save possibly the lack of appropriatioious, why Haskell, Geuoa, Chilocco, Sat~taP 6, Albuquerque,, and other larger schools, in most of rrhich this improve:~:ent would involve t,he expenditure of a comlfi~rativelgs midl SIIUI of money, should not he granted the same boou. ORNAMENTATION. I am pleased to be able to report that in many schools increased attellti011 is beiu. e o.a id to the ornamentation of dormitories, school- roonls, dining rooms, and the arhool gronlld*. The i ~ i t l ~ ~nefn pvro~p er a t t r u t ~ oto~ ~o~ ~ui lu~enrnUt i~nO~I I[l ie che e r r~~l~o~i( ~~I.IiCsi~ lrnntes: ~nd up011 a general reg;lrd ior c.lea~~linesid.i so gl.t.;tt that I T 1n81yI lr prol'- erly eo~~side~;Ient ilm porta~r~i:ti ~~itntl.uye nsurr. 11 is 81 real tleligl~tt o go illto one or' tliesr ~lor~oi t~~ar~ilcdst o notice floe iullllrll~e\ \ . I I ~C~ Ii b few nictures unou the walls, inex~eusive and neat window curtains, and ioot rugs cave upon the &leaulir~esosf the walls, floors, :md beds: A dining room with afew flowering plants in the windows, a few cheer-ing motioes or pictures on the wails, and a few sprays of flowers on the tables does away insensibly with the disgnsting, greedy table habits of a mere feeding place. Similar rbmarks apply t,o the ornamentadon of schoolrooms and school grounds. I n the diuiug rooms the clum~yhi gh-back chairs are being gradually supplanted by light stools. The custom of placing the dishes witlliu more or less convenient reael~o f everyone, and of inviting, at a given signal, a niore or less unseemly scramble on the part of each one to help himself, is being supplanted by all orderly settiug of t.he tables, whicl~p l>~cetsh e duty upon cert.ain pupils of helping all the others t,o the contents of the dishes placed before them and unostentwtiouslg makes it the duty of each one to think of his neighbor before he begins , to appease his own appetite. 1 am pleased to note also that in dormitories iuatrous are learning to move the beds away from the walls. By this they not only secure free access to every portion of the bed, and therefore greater cleanliness, but the malls are rendered available for or~lamentatiora~n d for the acco~nmodationo f sin~pleb rackets and box seats in which the children place their little belongings for safe-keeping and clea~lliness. At the same time, by placing the head of the bed Itear t,he central portion of the room the child is enabled to breathe the relatively purw air of the dormitory. The refining influences of judicious ornamentation upon the disposi-tion and geueral attitude of the children is quite marked. I notice that in scl~oolsw here these things are neglected the children will meet the visitingstrauger wit.hdowncast eyes and with a scowl indicative of fear, defiance, or some other mode of suppressed or latent hostility, whereas in schools which pay proper attention to these matters the visitiug stranger is greeted by open countenances expressing kindli-ness and confidence, and, not infrequently, with spontaneous friendly salutations. CIWL SERVICE. It is a matter for congratulation that civil-service rules have recently been extended over the entire school service. This will do away, |