THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
29
On a recent Sunday evening Miss Gertrude Eakin of Salem gave a
very pleasing talk during our chapel exercises. She has a most graci
ous personality.
Julia Forsman went to Portland on Dec. 3, for an operation on her
eyes by Dr. F. A. Kiehle. At last reports, the patient was doing well,
and the operation and treatment were successful.
Mrs. Weniger and daughter, Miss Ethel, of Salem, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Smith during Thanksgiving. Mrs. Weniger is a teacher in
the Junior High School of Salem.
Miss Marie E. Roberts arrived not long ago from Colorado Springs,
Colorado, to accept a position as teacher in our academic department.
We hope that she may find the position and the place attractive.
The Phoenix, Arizona, school recently issued a collection of views of
the various buildings, etc., which go into the making of that splendid
institution. The work of printing was most creditable and we are
pleased to boost for the printing art and the school that stands back
of it.
On the afternoon of November 19th the O. A. C. freshman foot
ball team played us on the home field. We made good on a pretty
sloppy and choppy sea of mud and water, but it was no soft job. We
rubbed their noses in the slime of the field to the tune of 13 to 0 and
they went to sleep to the strains of our "lullaby." It was some game,
a good tune well sung.
Fairview, Okla. Some of the Indian babies shown at the contest
here scored high in the examinations conducted tinder the direction of
agricultural and mechanical college professors. Stella Mixhair, 10
months old, and Mary Mixhair, sisters, scored 91 and 90. The Indian
babies would have scored even higher had it not been for roughness of
their skins and lack of grooming. The Indians took great interest in
the baby show, and the mothers were proud of their children, asking
knowledge of how7 to care for them as white mothers do. St. Louis
(Mo.) Star.
In his introduction to the concerts given by our String Quartet in
the different cities Mr. Kennedy states that this is the only Indian
String Quartet in the world, the only quartet on the coast engaged in con
cert work, and the only string quartet ever sent out by a school, college
or university in this country, and claims that not even a conservatory
of music has ever sent out a standard string quartet bearing its name.
Wherever the quartet appears new interest is awakened in Chemawa,
and the people marvel that an Indian School should be the first to de
velop a string quartet.