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Show REPORT OR TBE COMMfS810NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 15 girl who receives a literary training in these schools has laid the groundwork for future education, and can fit himself or herself for the bar, the pulpit, or the magazine pages. Their future career should always be dependent upon their own exertions, and not at the expense of the General Government. Phoenix, Haskell, Albuquerque, and other institutions, have well-organized schools of domestic science, where the girls are practically taught the art of preparing a wholesome meal, such as appears on the tables of persons of moderate means. They are not taught the "hotel " or "restaurant" style of cooking, with the consequent education and desire to look forward to salaries similar to chefs in such institutions; but by actually themselves preparing, under proper supervisiou, the meals adapted to the means of an average family of five to seven per-sons, these girls stand excellent chances of securing places in such families at living wages, and are not constantly looking forward to continued Government support by being placed in salaried positions at the Government schools and agencies. Supt. S. M. McCowan, of the Phoenix school, Arizona, proposes to inaugurate another practical scheme of training Indian girls which will not only be profi.table to them as a money-making profession, but will be of vast advantage in their own homes and to their own people. Many Indian girls are fitted by natural endowment for nurses, and the superintendent is of opinion that by the establishment of such a traiu-ing school as will practically and theoretically prepare its graduates for nursing, a new avenue of hope and life will be opened up to the Indian woman. He pleads- For the Indianmaidens to this extent, that they be given the most thorough train-ing in cooking, housekeeping, and nursing. These maidens will be mothers by and by. The great majority will live among their own people; and while every mother may he depended on to do the very best she bows for her children, nevertheless her value is proportioned mrding to her knowledge, not her desire. It is just as important to know how to relieve the ailing, to heal the wounded, to cure the sxck to ease the sufferer, to cook dainty and appetizing delicacies for the indifferent, to wax back from the shadow of death the weary and heavy laden, as to spout, like a perennial geyser, of wman's rights and Indian rights. Indian schools are doing much in the way of training the girls for just such future duties, but often, with meager or inadequate equip-ment, they have not been able to attain the high ideal which should be set upon such training. NONREBEBVATION 80HOOLS. These are as a rule the largest institutions devoted to Indian educa-tion. As indicated by their designation, they are situated off the res-ervations ana nsmlly near cities or populous districts, where the object lessons of white civilization are constantly presented to the pupils. They are recruited principally from the day and boarding schools on |