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Show 464 REPORT OF SUPBEINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. w.ahed, and sulphur burned in the room. The keeping of provisions in the tepeee is a grekt c a w of sickneas among the camp Indians. Vdting Indians often prove fertile sources of infection, and a certificate of health should be given by the eut and phyaieian to all Indians who wish to visit another reservation. No agent xould allow viaiting Indians on any reservation who have not brought such a health certificate. Severe cases of scrofula and all tuberculosis should be isolated at theschools, nor should the Indians so afflicted be permitted to live with the well Indian6 The aged and infirm should be carefully looked after on each reservation. KINDERGARTEN WORK. [Mi= BLAVOHE FINLBYH. amptoto, Vs.] The kindergarten might correctly be called an awakening school, for much that is gained from the home life by the child of the developed races is missed by a great majority of the Indian children. Often our children of 5 and 6 are unable to enunciate clearly enou h to be under-h o d , frequently unable to speak a word of English. They powweas Kittle, if any, of the creative spirit. We 6nd it wise, therefore, to take in younger children than is necessery, as a rule, in other races. The Erst year to be like a home.-The h t year we give, as nearly as pomihle, what the child would get in a well-ordered home. The ear's work centers around our 13 e family of dolls, who must be frequently washd and dreased, and whoae house beds demand replar care. On Monday the rmniature washtubs andboards are brought into play. The dolls' clothes and bedding and a diacreet number of lunch napkins are mbbed and rinsed and hung on lines acmww the window. The next morning they are sprinkled, ironed, and folded away in the tmnk made for them b the older children. The aim is not infant prodigies in the art of lsun-dry work, Lt the cultivation of awork spirit1 in the most unrestrained, hap y way. no attempt to teach form or nombers with gifts.-No attempt is made to teacR color, form, and number with the first three or four kindergarten gifts that are used. The bright balls are used as balls to be freely rolled and tomed and swung; all that is learned of farm and color ia by observation. The blocks of the third and fourth gifts, both enlarged and of regular size, are used for free and suggested building, moatly suggestive at first; for instance, nailing with the lightest hammem pieces of soit wood Into simple furniture, as an oblong piece of wood to a cube, making a chair.' These take the place of the more formal occupations of card sewing, wav-mg, paper folding, and parquetry, and, particularly m the furniture, supply much-needed toys. The sand table, with its tools and diahes, has a place in each day's ra-me. Bongs not paramount.-Teachingof songa is not paramount; those of few and simple words are oceaaionally taught. Stories and picturesare wed most freely. Thesense @me0 and hger plays and rhythmic games of skippin , hopping, ruming, etc., to plan0 masic have been found of special value in the fevelopment of the child in question." By the ~eeondy ear in kindeqarten the child i.i ready for little housekeeping duties, which take the place somewhat, though not entirely, of the doll work. Each little one has a chair to dust or plants to water, or a room in the doll house to care for, or similar work. The duties are assigned for two weeks, perhaps, and then changes are made. Xaking sheets, blankets, frunitqre, ee.-These children make doll sheets and blankets, cotton scrapbooks, aesortmg forms, sizes, and colors. A great deal of nail-ing and gardening are among the occupations given.* Creative and shll games are added to the sense and rhythmic games. Now the older or third-year children are well prepared to do more progressive sewing, baaket weaving, braided lamp mats, to narl prepared pieces of wood into more elaborate doll furniture, seed boxes, bird houses, and little 'I can not too strongly emphasize the necessity of cultivating this spirit in Indian children. 'Many pieces of doll furniture, seed boxes, willow baskets, and other toys can be manufactured in kinde by the thoughtful and ingeniow teacher's direction. 'I should like to see carn'e d out, not neglecting patriotic songs. Singing is often carried to excess. 'I can not too stronfly emghasize,the advisability of following these ideas. , sThia fib the child or the ture We tern burldmg hls house, mending his wagon, eta |