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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 A MASTER LIFE (Continued from page 1) ing dishes or carrying a hod, you can always, if you will, be a thoroughbred. The humblest occupation may be glorified by the spirit put into it. What you do for a living does not matter so much as how you do it. It is the spirit in which you do your work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. You can have no nobler ambition than this—to make your life count. The man or woman w’ho lives for self alone, whose life is not of value to the whole community, no matter what his education or calling is a failure. There can be no greater mistake than to grind all of your energy, and your heart’s blood, your very selves, into meat, your raiment, and to devote only the crumbs, the odds and ends of your time and energies, to man- making and woman-making. You must work for your manhood, your womanhood, as much as for your money, and take as much pains to get it, and keep it, too. Our closing thought is: That your ideas and ideals can never be solid possessions until you express them in life. It is good to respect airy structures in the imagination, but you must bring them down and give them a solid footing on earth if they are ever to do you or the world any good. While they are in the air they are impracticable. If they never get over the borderland of the imagination they will do you more harm than good. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS The painters are working on furniture that has been repaired and also on the hall of the lower floor of Wi nona Hall. The plumbing department has done some very neat work recently on the sheet metal frames for the lamp shades that the art students are making. Recent freezing weather has materially injured some of our winter grain and it will be necessary to re-seed some of the land where frost has worked havoc. Mr. Henry Turner is taking the place of Mr. Tyrell while the latter is on leave. This arrangement keeps Mr. Turner busy, supplying the wants of both chil dren and chickens. When it rains so hard that the rafters and wall plates get too slippery to stay on the carpenters have to leave the roof of the shop addition, but they are good at staying at the job. Our truck is out of the shop again now and seems as good as ever. 1'his speaks well for the driver, Mr. Briggs, his detail, and the several mechanical depart ments that contributed to the rehabilitation. A department that has been operating on its own initiation is the tailor shop. Mr. James was called away for several days last week and the boys of his detail proceeded in a quiet and efficient way with their work until his return. This speaks very well for the young men in this department. The resignation of Mr. Will, our shoe and harness maker, has left this department with the detail to do the work without an instructor. So far there have been three boys who are worthy of honorable mention in this work. Alfred Kiu, Nickolai Nelson and Joseph Matte have shown interest and proficiency in the work and the other boys have supported them well. Good work! DOMESTIC ART NOTES “Maw’in, folks, heah we are agin.” What’s the use of education if it cannot be put to practical use? There are designs, and designs, and more designs, as proven by Miss Groves who has collected designs through her entire service, actually originated by Zuni, Hopi and Navajo students; however, we are not to be beaten for we intend to show our ability to orig inate designs as good as theirs. Can we do it? Certainly. Sewing, sewing, why most certainly we are. We are patching, darning, cleaning and pressing. New clothes are being made, and old clothes are made into new ones. “How perfectly lovely!” Do our arms ache? Of course not, we are too interested to stop and think about our aching limbs. Why, this is all fun. Just you try it and see. That is what we call an honest- to-goodness “renovation.” “Much is expected of the Seniors. We expect them to be leaders at their home, or wherever they go,” said Miss Groves in her talk to us last week. Selec tion of clothes, knowing how to make them, when to wear them, and the cost, were her main points under the subject of clothing In speaking of foods, she strongly expressed that the most important is to have a perfect knowledge of the kind of food most nourish ing to the body. How to cook and serve a simple meal is the next important object to consider in cookery. We strongly believe Miss Groves’ words were not merely wasted, for we have in our class just that qual ity which will fulfill these requirements. “Fowls fly and so does time.” Au Revoir, T he H appy -G o -L ucky S eniors . DETAIL FOR WEEK Sunday escort for girls, January 25 McBride Hall Winona Hall Asst. Farmer Teacher No. 15 Teacher No. 5 Poultryman
