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Show 454 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SOHOOLS. alone does not appeal to many people who know the Indian's home life and the di5- cultv h e will have amone: his own ~ e o ~olf em akine: a livelihood. I n most cases, it ii?e1;18 IU I ~Vt,h e tratle, Hiter all, i8'univ oi sec~nJai)i.u rp<,rtanee,a nd the real thing , ~ i n b ilr the leelinp ,i puaQrw ilirll co&es s i rh the acrumpli~hniento f anv ~~f..k~.l..h. t .xr.d ~b. .~I.e~t I IR look fur3 inlnutvat the ulac.k?mith's t r adr iur t l a Indian. 11 have nIe~ltioned~l,&iyirtel t b i ~ p ap^; thBt i t ia n. pr,pnlar as any wr t a ch. ) I do iecl lh31 the i~tilitarlnlli l l~c .~~~p l iPhomf chnruld~i nfi 111aetriu&a nd weld-in:, while they arr of ineetimal~lc~ aluc.,arpt he on1 ~ o th~inpdltla r hov has eorten out oithepraatice ar the f n ~ e , l , utth at ~ l o n ps i l l , il YI thesf proressc> in the thousand nn.1 l,rlr -r t~o~iifivatiuannc~l a~,t,lizuti~,trcro me3 H melltdl 8tllulllu1. a Dower 01 COncCII- ~ ~ ~ tration and adantabilitv. wh:ch leads to healthier activities and 'growth. The same rhiug in t n ~ oei ku,v tr& or occupatiun, bur a* the b~y'! own incl i r~~r ioamr~d lo\e fur a particular kirld "f hhill inup1 he ncknowlnlgnl tc, a cemin extent in the selec-t- i<-,u. .,. ..a-i h nnalic,r.~gir .i~o.r- -l. o-i.-n,l . it f<jllo!\t~h at there will Lr x ~l ene rdd irerpitv uf t r a d e ~~ - ~ - ..- ~ ~ ~ ---- ~ ~ -~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ among the boys from any reservation. Character building is, after all, the keynote in any kind of education. It may seem to he entirely a~Lnr;~eda t time*, hut Le it clwaical or industrinl, t l s<~~l t c ohmnec ~ t a rurrr hurtzh of fncts glrarleil in,w the fields oi literature and lahor, bllr xlung with st11.11a nlli,le u ~ r l d~f IOO\V\.PT 111111 ilosihilitv. hlanv t i n l r ~to all ni u9 h ~ *elo nie tlat now stereotwed exorekion that the 1ndiar;'s education is all a mistake and that it simply 11 .,;ti him i n d in rhc end ntiaki~l e e af a rum of him thau lac uould have bprn llad hv :row" np in tllr o~cl rvu).. Tlois ~tmy he rnlc in rwlt,r instsrlrt-a and it niav weern trtre in mans lut,rr. raliin~r the ~ r r s r n t timr into ron+iJeration. but the thiieto be considered that this is ifter ail only the seed time; the harvest is not yf~l , ' i l~vuIR tIh~in k 3. few at lrnct begirl to SrQP iine oi i t s appruaeh. If I th~npltt we w r e n~.lhiv.g carp~rlfer-, hla, ksrnithr, and wheelwrights of the .In-cli-nn-~r. i nd that they rot ~ uoft t he rrarlw 0 1 1 1 ~th e cold. hard farta alrich oruvkld ~~~~ ~ ~ ~" -~~ ~~~~ ~ a means of a livelihood. I should feel that we &re doinza~roeressivew orb. What THF TRAINING OF THE INDIAN GIRL AS THE UPLIFTER OF THE HOME. [Mi= JOSEPHINE E. RICAARDS, Hampan, v8.1 Miss Alice Fletcher once told of a visit she paid to Sitting Bull and the plea he made, in view of changed conditions, for the women of his race. "Take pity onmy wpmen, for they have no future. The young men can be like the white men, till the soil, supply the food and clothing; the w ~ l lta ke the work out of the hands of the women, and the women, to whom we gave owed everything in the past, will be stripped of all which gave them power and position among the peo-ple. Give a future to my women." We are surely along the line of the old chief's appeal when we consider how the Indian woman, as she ceases to aet up the tepee, can become the true uplifter of the home. The crying needs of the Indian home of the present day are lack of system in the domestic arrangements of the household, of promptnees, and orderlineas; not only "a place for everything and everything in its place," but a time for everything and everything done on time. I think those of us who have firm faith in many native virtues of the Indian would hesitate to claim punctuality and dispatch among them. Most. closely linked to orderliness is cleanliness. We remember reading a graphic and appalling description of the minutiie of house-cleaning operations by a young Indian field matron and her assistant in a neighboring cabin, where the cellar for keeping supplies was a hole under one of the beds, and where other thinga were on a similar plane of untidiness. A recent letter from a teacher of a camp school speaks of her little pupils as "so bright, quick, ambitious to learn, but oh, 80 dirty." It is not enough to teach these grls how to swrep and scrub and wash and iron. We must strive so to get them in the habit of being neat in person and surroundings that the really can not be comfortable otherwise. Perhaps nothing dam this more effectudyy than the "outing system," when the home to which the pupil is sent is of the ri ht sort The l i n g , week after week, in a quiet, refined, well-ordered househol% ia of inestimable value in fostering s. "noble disoontent" mth dirt and disorder. |