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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1902)
8 CHEMAWA AMERICAN. Leftover Items From Last; Issue. Several papeis have been added to our exchange list. Essie Reed is making a very pretty piece of draw n work. The tables of the wards of the hospital were covered with very neat cloths last Sunday, which were made by the hos pital girls. Chemawa was the recipient of two new flags, which will grace the flag pole. There were 37 in attendance at the Y. M. C. A. meeting on last Sunday eveuiug. Father Daly was out last Sunday morn ing and had mass in the School Chapel for the Catholic pupils. Little girls should be more careful, about wearing their wraps and hats dur ing the cool weather. Mrs. Brewer is making some exquisite lace work. No one can excd Mrs". JJrew er in this elegant and dainty accomplish ment. , A slight earthquake struck Chemawa on the night of Dec. 12th. Mr. Woodin says the "quake" was quite perceptible and lasted for several seconds. It was also no ticed in Salem. Eva Pecard came back last wek from her outing home in Salem with Malarial Fever, but we are glad to report that she ' has racovered and returned to Mr. John sons. The Industrial Teacher delivered several loads of dirt to Dr. Clark and Mr. Camp bell to bank up their rose bushes at the Hospital and Cottage to protect them from possible cold weather, which may never come. Among the small boys going to school today who had their shoes polished best and looked the neatest were Herman McCluskey, FinHley OofteH, Frank Souv eimer, JessBoolne, Robert Cameron, and Chas. Koeffe. Keep it up nova, it will make neat men out of you. Everybody dislikes to fee ditty shoes." A clean collar and neat shoes are strong eins of respectability. Kooscveit and the Utes. Washington, Dec, b-Cornmissioner of I ndian Affairs Jones today introduced to President Roosevelt a delegation of Ute Indians, who were anxious to meet the "Great Father." Th Pres-ident shook hands very cordially with each of the In dians. One, of the Indians understood English. On being informed of the fact, the President turned to him and paid: "Tell your brothers that I had 50 Indians In my regiment during the war with Spain, and they made fine soldiers.'' The Indians appeared to be very much pleased when this message was conveyed to them, The transition or hobbledehoy period, be twef n boyhood and young manhood, when a youth is no longer a boy and not yet a man. is the most trying time of life. This U th age when the interrogation point as sumes colossal proportions,' when every fac ulty of his nature isi asking questions aud wondering what th1 future lias in store for bira. This is the period which tries him. This is the time when great changes, the meaning of which he cannot solve, begin ia his life. lie is growing go fust, and his tastes are changing so rapidly, that he dops riot yet know what he Is going to do, what occupation or profession to choose. While the youth is in his unsettled con dition, teachers aud parents should exer else great patience in dealiug with him, as whatever is put into thi9 part of his life is put into the whole of his life. This is the impressionable stage, when, if he hears a lawyer expatiate upon the beauty of the law, he will tnink that be is cut out from the bar, he will change his mind next day in favor of medicine, if he hear3 a doctor enlarge upfn the nobility of the tnedipal profession. The lad changes from one thing to another with tqual impartiality and lack of judgment. He has not had fufficleiit experience to see the thorns, the diliicul'its, the discouragement incident to the different vocations, but he stea only the flowers and the pleasant side of them, -Ex.
