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Show INDIAN SCHOOL INSTITUTES. In the last annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Asairs, that we may better carry out his wishes; and That we will endeavor to follow the man7 helnful ideas received from the demonstration lessons in correlation of the class room and industrial work after the Hampton and Tuskegee methods, which the superintendent of Indian schoola has had presented ; and That we are grateful to Doctor Barnhisel and the officers of the First Presby-terian Church for the use of the edifice in holding the sessions; and That we we appreciate the extended notices published in the Tacoma Ifidedger. DEMONSTRATION LESSONS. At the close of each session demonstration lessons were given by teachers In ' the Service, showing how the class-room instruction in the different grades may be correlated with the work of the various industrlal departments. Classes of Indian pupils were used in the presentation of these lessons, synopses of which are attached hereto for the assistance of teachers who were not present at the institute. ADVANCED ARITHMETIC. [Presented by Mrs. Ida MeQuesten, teacher, Puyallup School, Tacoma, Wash.1 In order to make our work inaritheuietic and other branches practical, we shall try to show how the school-room work may be correlated with the indus-trial, and thus malce both more effective. Lumbering is perhaps the greatest industrial feature of our section of the country, and the lumber trade is one that shonld command our attention. Our boys work in the mills, and many problems must be made about various lrlnds Of lumber, shingles, etc., and others involving the expenditure of their money In an economical way. Here we teach them to clear the laud. In your locality I t may be irrigntion, clearing sagebrush, growing wheat, or fruit raising. We must adapt our lessons to meet the needs of our children and to suit the condi-tions surrounding our school: If your children are not as far advanced, make your problems as simple or as difficult as the ease demands. In preparing this lesson on shingling we do not find the points needed in our text-bool-s, but the carpenter Is nlnnys willing to give information, and we must make an eEort to get it ourselves. Combining this industrlal with the school room work requires much time and effort; but when once the materials are ready we have the foundation for innumerable problems In building, papering, Painting, and carpeting. Take a house built at your school, measure the rooms, c'ompute the cost of the foundation and the chimneys, and follow it thru all its Processes of construction with problems. After the house is built then comes problems on furnishing it, then purchasing provisions at the store, etc. The Government has given most Indian bo$s and girls land, and before long You will need to make your living from your allotments. Q. What will you do first to improve your land, Oscarl-A. I think I will cut the timber down and sell it. Q. What would you do, Franlriel-A. I would build a house first. Q. Yes, I think we should build a house to have a place to live and then begin at once to clear the land, as Oscar suggested. Sell the timber If you can. If not, burn It up and get the ground ready for use. Many people think it Is too bad to burn up wood, but this land of our valley is too valuable for gardening to leave it in a wild state. There are thousands of people here in Tacoma ready to buy the product of our farms, and we must supply what they need. Most young nlen have little money to begin with, but those who will work can End ready employment at the mills to earn money, and by saving will soon have enough to build a small, Inexpensive, tho neat, little home. Let us be sure to have a closet and a pantry in our house--a place to put the food and dishes and to hang the clothes. Then In starting our new home we shall be very comforta-ble with two rooms--a living room and a bedroom. While Oscar is taking down the dimensions of the house Frankie may write what I have said of the house, .and Robert may tell me on the board what we can profitably raise here to sell in the Tacoma ma$et Frankie wrote: A young man can find work at the milts to earn money, and If he saves It he will soon have enough to bnlld a small, cheap house. He must have it neat, and put in a closet for the clothes and a pantry for the dishes; then two rooms will do." |