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Show SUMMER SCHOOLS. lo the meantime the farm owncr and Pnrmer romaine a fairly prospcrone and comparatively independent citizen. Looking at the matter, broadly. doea it not secm whollv desirable to attach to the lend and tocanntrs ltfe all who can be so I ~< ~~~-~~ - ~- ~~~~~~- ~~ -. mttached. esneoiau~in clndine thaw ta whom citizanahin &d civilization are new facts not y& Enlly~assimilatd? [Jons R. Eras, Sopetintendent of Sohools, Eirksville, Mo.] In Miwouri the normal schools have taken the position that we ought not to familiarize onr prospective teachers, through the children of Missouri, with all the foreign rivers and mountains of foreign countries and leave them unfamiliar with the jewels which they daily trample under their feet. For two years the. normal schools of our States have been undertaking the teachineof adculture. We have betwecn c;l!O and :00 young prospecd;e schoolmaetrre-and echool-ma'ams taking agriculture, and we have had all the time about 100 that volnn-teored t.o. vr~o to work iu theaerienltnral laboratorv. We do nor nrowee to teach ~~ ~ ~- ~~ ~ ~-~ -~~~ a&icultnre from a book. f i e nresident of the &hool was bnsjr &king abont diiring tbe sommerancl pror tdi~s ene eotfa xtbo,,ks, hot the splendid woman we have in charge wonld not have them I scanse there waH not a half or a fourth lu tho book that ehc w~ahedt o tedch. 'Chc tcaclrvr of a~r i c u l t u nin~ n or ecllool in a wolnan, not a great big, shup[ling, awkward mu", iud nothing do the hoard of rageutn praise so lbighly ar the work cltc is doing inagriculture. Sheiaa graduate o-f- an nrrirulrurnl colle.re hrrself. nrrd me are te~chlnpa eriuulturc sciantitically ~~ - -- - - ~ ~ - - ~ ~ ~~ and practically to the prospective teia.&ers of ~iasouri- - WHAT SYSTEXW ILL BESTP ROMOCTHEA RACTERB UILDING Axoxa INDIAN CHILDRENA ND TEE COURAGE AND ABILITYT O ENTERA ND CONTENDM THE OPPORTUNITIOEF~ CIVILIZEDL IPE? For a lone time to come the Indian ia eoine to live on or near the land that belon&; to him. Any system that does no? tsh thia into coneideration is losing valuaI,lo time. Each Indian has his bit of land; it may not be worth much, but it is the ono thine that ho owus: hc calls it home. and it never ceneee to draw him back, no matt& how far he may he t em~t edaw ay. The Indian'elandie nndoubb cdly his stock in tl.aole, the onk thing ibtt he has to begu life upon. Where a \rhite mat. call mako a living, an Indian ehonlil, and Ire can be 60 taught xnd 80 encouraged that ha \\,ill have both the knonledce nnJ the hrart to makc the attetupr;'rather than l e ~h~is ala ud and look for ortier work. T h ~ws ould rcqnire a more ~ysrematictr aining in agri~.n.tnrer lran many of our schools arc now pre-nard to eiva. buts meat deal ran now Imdone br makiuc the stndv of anrlrul-iure as iGportant and as dignified tta rho I~terilryb ork, a<d by no a;lnprink it to the conditions of the country that a pnpil may feel in himself the power to do jnst as ood work as his white neighbor, only perhaps a llttlo better. A u n v students comiue to ILaulnton have very little idea of individual rea~onsi- Chiltty.- To remedy thisFwe give each girl a room. end ehe 1s requtred to ~nakeit comfortablc, pleasant, and pretty. Hor bed iiuen and row~lsa re her u\vn and luxr,<ed wtth her name. Hcr clothing is hl-r own also aud is purvhascd, plannrd, rind mrrrle I n herself. On her wash d3.v sliw t:lkra lrer little hag of elorhes and Ird~lrrr:: tu a' room fitted np wtth individual tub.; and there doel her washlng and lntcr l ~ rirrn ninu. all withant the alrl of ~uauhtnorv. .\t a certain tima her mentl-ing must be d&e, and her clothes nass insvectim. Every girl is aiven a daily tai i. fov which she is pad, and wtth-chnprd by hersdf from the stores in fiomethinn of the much-nreded lessun .- tive valueof different materials. The boy usually shares his room with another andis kept responsiblefor itscare. He must keep an account of his clothing and hie earnings, which must agree with the school's atatemeut at the end of the month. The outing system is very valuable in bringing the Indian into direct contact with an industrions and thrifty people, and every summer nearly every one of the Hampton Indian students spende four months among the farmersof New England. They deal at first-hand with their employers without the intervention of tPe' |