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Show BEPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOL8. 399 example, the converting of a packing box into awashstrmd, cupboard, etc.; also the making of mattresses, using straw or the dry grass growing in many re ions for the filling. The mission schoo 7 s are also doing excellent work in the industrial field. For many years the St. Francis School, located on the Rose-bud Reservation, S. Dak., under the charge of Father Digman, has been doing remarkably ood work, and the past year the results along agricultural lines were p5 , enomenal. The Holy Rosary School, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, 8. Dak, is well conducted, and good results have been secured from the a ricultnral work. The St. Xavier School, on the Crow Reservation, #ant., is doing most excellent work along industrial lines, and the Catholic fathers in charge have directed their efforts to teaching the old Indians irrigation. Industrial work is made a s~eciafle ature in many other schools conducted under the auspices of -the various churches and missionary societies, and they deserve -g reat credit for their noble work among the Indians. . Superintendents and teachers have keen constantly urK e d to pay more attention to teaching cooking and to see that the gir s are thor-oughly instructed in this important branch of their school course. The cooking department of the Haskell Institute has been established for several years, and the results during the past year have been extremely gratifying. The girls receive thorough practical instrnc-tion and are well equipped to become good housekeepers. Superin-tendents have been requested not to wait for Congress to make appropriations for the erection of domestic-science buildings, but to begin the teachingof cooking in one corner of the school kitchen by providing an ordinary cooking stove, remembering the old maxim, "Where there's a will there's a wa,y." At Pine Ridge the teacher employed as general cook has the Interest of the children so thor-ouehlv at heart that she devotes a half day on Saturday to teachin-g theg$ls family cooking. During the past year many letters have been written to snperin-tendents requesting them to extend the teaching of industries, as the followin-g extracts will indicate: I t is the desire of the Officet hat all Indian eirls he hueht ~ r a c t i dho usework, and ).on are requested to see that this most "&wry brdnc:lr'of their educatios is carried out at your whool. If po&Ue, you should arcurr Llrr ~ r v i t wof a vompe-tent cook, who can wach a l a w detail of girls family cooking. t * * Z Rug and carpet weaving has been taught successfully at Hampton and other large schools, the looms used being made by the pupils. I would suggest that you have a loom made in your carpenter shop, and that your pu ils he tau ht weaving. The determination to teach practically, to use simple but egective met%ods, and to make the most of the facilities at hand will do much more -toward makine a school suc-cessful than the use of compleq systems and expensive machinery. Your wide experience with Indians must have convinced you that it is not the scientific but the ractical part which should be emphasized with them. The ability to use his hangs, and not to he dependent upon mechanical appliances, is what the Indian now needs. Superintendents have been advised to emphasize the industrial side in their school curriculum, especially fitting the instruction to the needs of their respective localities. The practical lessons given,. coupled with the actual work done at the various trades, will necessarily rove valuable to the young Indian in his future efforts to gain a live11% o od. |