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2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN in well selected homes by the Outing Matron where they are living as members of the families and at tending public schools. They receive only a small wage during the school term which wage is in creased for full-time service during the summer vacation months. For the protection of the girls and in the interest of Outing patrons the following rules have been adopted: OUTING RULES FOR GIRLS 1. Girls are not to be regarded as “maids” or servants, though they are to be taught the dig nity of service. They are to be mothers’help- ers in the homes and taught to be neat, order ly and efficient in all the duties pertaining to the management of a well kept home. 2. Girls will not be placed in homes where there are boys over 12 years of age. 3. They must be punctual and regular in school attendance, and must not be kept out half-days and parts of days. 4. A girl should not be required to arise in the morning before 6:00 o’clock. Her morning work should be so arranged that she is never tardy at school. She should be given sufficient time each evening to prepare her lessons for the day following; retire by 9:30, never later than 10:00 P.M. Girls should go directly home from school and not visit the homes of other girls after school. 5. A girl should not be required to do the family washing, or any other heavy work not suitable for a young girl attending school. The small wage asked for these Indian school girls is to protect them against work too arduous for their age. 6. Pupils should attend church, or Sunday school, regularly; the Catholic girls to a church of that faith ; the Protestant girls to a Protestant church. This refers to day church, not even ing. 7. Each girl should return to her “outing home” before 6:00 o’clock, P. M., whenever she has permission to be absent alone. She should tell her “outing mother” where she expects to go, and if she disobeys she should be kept home on her next afternoon out. Under no circum stances must the girl leave her outing home for another place to live, or to return to Che- mawa, without specific permission from the Outing Matron, 8. Each girl should be provided with a suitable room in the home with the family. She should be neat in person and keep her room neat and orderly. She must not remain all night with other girls without permission, nor must she be left alone in the home all night with small children. 9. On Sundays and holidays she should not be March 28, 1928 permitted to go to public parks or other places of amusement unless she is chaperoned by an adult member of the family. Girls must not be permitted to entertain men friends unless special permission is given by the Outing Matron, and then it must be unquestionably a I father or brother. But in any event the Out ing Matron should first be consulted. 10. Sunday afternoons are the usual times for the girls to have their recreation. They should have two Saturday afternoons off each month to do their sewing, darning, shopping, etc., but if they go down town they should be ac companied by some competent chaperon. It will help if each outing mother wall see that her girl does not visit other patrons’ girls at other times. It is essential that patrons co operate in this for the common good. Girls must not eat meals at other patrons’ homes without an invitation from the patron. 11. A record of all money transactions is kept at the school and if the pupil spends more than one-third of her monthly wage, the excess cannot be counted as part pay, but will be con sidered a gift from the outing mother. 12. Two-thirds of the agreed monthly wage must be sent to the school each month, without wait ing for a statement. The other on-third should be paid to the girl. Make all checks payable to the Superintendent, Chemawa Indian School, NOT TO THE GIRL. This money is known as “Individual Indian Money” and is taken up in the Superintendent’s official ac counts and placed to the credit of the student and paid out to the student from time to time as her needs may require. 13. It is expected that the outing mother will take a personal interest in her girl’s welfare and give her every reasonable advantage as well as advice and encouragement, and take her out occasionally where she may secure contact educationally—all without interfering with her duties as a mother’s helper. 14. Our Indian girls are expected to be courteous, appreciative, obedient, and to do their part at all times as faithfully and efficiently as may reasonably be expected of young people Of their age and experience. Throughout the following pages of this issue of The Chemawa American will be found articles describing the Outing System as it is carried on at other large Indian schools where it is a demon strated success and valuable alike both to the pat ron and to the Indian student. For further information, application blanks, etc., address Superintendent U. S. Indian School, Chemawa, Oregon.
