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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
THE WEST SHORE. 10 There istboBadail, ZZ f one. The large build- division of labor and study with ample Q in L center U the school and chap- time given to all for recreation. Fo? el that on the right the girls' dormitory, teachers are employed, two for each and that on the left the building devoted grade. . tn the boys. The others are the office, In assigning places m the shops much km bowe, shops, laundry, and engine is left to the inclination of the pupil, house. The Oregon fc California rail- and if, after he has worked some time road pin through the front of the at a trade, it becomes evident that he is grounds, Chemawa being a regular sta- not fitted for it, he is changed to some tion on its line. At present mail is de- other. Owing to the fact that only such lircn-d by special arrangement from Sa- things are manufactured as are used in om, but no doubt a post office will soon the institution, there is not, as yet, an l established there by the government, opportunity to teach every pupil a spe lt is wonderful what progress the In- cial trade. In consequence, the major dian children make in the five years ity of the boys are given employment they re jermitted to remain in the in- on the farm and about the grounds, stitution. It must be borne in mind, Agriculture is, in the main, the most that, as a rule, they can not speak En- serviceable thing they can learn, and it glinh when they first enter the school, is to be regretted that a more extensive In this way they are at a disadvantage, farm is not provided for their cultiva equivalent to at least a year's time, as tion. The pupils make all the shoes compared with white pupils. Nothing and boots worn by the two hundred chil but English is spoken at the institution, dren, do all the blacksmithing and iron ami conversation in Indian tongues and work, all the carpenter' work needed the ubiquitous Chinook jargon is inter- about the place except, of course, the dieted. The pupiU are given English buildings, which are erected by contract names upon entering the school. These -make all the clothing for both boys regulations naturally render the first and girls, as well as the bed clothing, do Tew months far from pleasant, and if all the laundry work and cooking, make such violent homesickness as shall lead all the improvements about the grounds to d,wrUon ensues, the children can and farms. The girls are taught laun wrtj be blamed. The result in the drying, cooking, sewing and housework end, however ,s good, as the children in rotation, being changed from one ZZU 'P English class of employment to another every ?W.,T,la - Bixmonth8- Whan they graduate they Z are fuy Pt to preside over a of 1 rDg fr h0U8e of a sample of pidTrC. J6?? &nJ , (r hat aplish will be interest- aitawSStT t act r r ine 10 learn that ele nths inMwodflcwit fl day.equal to the piU ranng io IXtw PU; of four girls, made two thou t"Aty.fiTe elTlfiJe ? of clothing i. in U acLxJ rJ in tt ??dbUia& Some of them are capa ud U uUr Ulf in Ye fa' ble of all kinds of cutting and fit-