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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.