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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
IP1? (Ozllpnnivn J&mericaii,
H. L. Lovelace,
Manager,
Published Weekly by the Pupils of the
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription Price, 2b Cents Per Year.
Cluhs ot five and over 20 Cents pr year
Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or.,
as second-clasa mail-matter.
Address all Business Communications to
The Chemawa American,
Chemawa, Oregon.
Strive to gt a Good Industrial Edu
cation. If you are ti'yiug to make a farmer of
yourself, let it be a good farmer.
If your opportunity lags, go meet it if
you are strong, or get ready for it's coming
if you are weak.
In another column we give a letter from
the Philippines from an ex-Indian worker,
who is now teaching there. It is quite inter
esting reading.
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You had better not try to be a black
' smith, or anything else for that flatter,
unless it is your purpoe to put forth j'Our .
best endeavor to learn.
On our first page we give a po?m which
is a prayer and it would be helpful to any
of us to co . umit the same to memory and
make It our prayer.
Learn to cook girls . Larn to siw; wash
' and iron, and to do general house woik, . If
you are a good reader, speller, mathema
tician, eve. and a poor cook, etc. your - suc
cess in life will not be great. Be Indus
trious, be energetic and ambitious to ex
cel in all the departments of Domestic
Science, which means cooking, sewing,
etc
Self preservation is the first law of nature.
Keep out of the rain! Keep dry! Don't
get your feet wet! Don't be foolish about
this. It is uot necessary to say why you
should remember the above. You know.
A gddd keoed. The officers on inpic
tion are pleased to find but twosick pupils
at the Hospital, and they were not serious
ly ill. Such a healthy condition should open
the eves of those Indians who are still
prejudiced against Chemawa and think
because in the early days of the school
considerable sickness prevailed that it is
still unhealthy. We are thankful to pay
we have uot had a death amoug our 500
. pupils during the last six mouths. Last
year eleven months passed by withouta
death. Out of so large a number of pupils that
health record spenks volumes. With an im
proved water system, sewerage, drainage,
ventilation, and the best equipped hospital
in the service under the charge of a skilful
physician, these result ar but natural con
sequences whare pupils . themselves
will obey orders and try to avoid those
careless habits which often cause sickness.
A SPLENDID EXAMPLE. BoV8 have VOl)
seen that m-'in from China at work on his
3 acre onion patch near -the school? He
rented the land from Mr. Knight and
cleared over $1000 from the six months'
work. The Old-Man-In-The-To wer was
wondeiing, why some of his bis athletic
Indian bovs could uot, do the same thins;
next year. They surely could if they would
get down to it and work as the Chinaman
did. Y'ou could see him at work early in
. the morning until Lite in the evening cul
tivating his onions. If you would go into
the b-uiK to-day you could also see his
th' U-smd dollar bank account. That is
what brings success at anything hard
wirk nnd sticking to it. Now if a poor
weakly ignorant looking Chinaman can
cler one thousand dollars in six months,
why could iiot a strong, athletic football
player do the same thing if he tried real
hard?