THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
The Chemawa American.
Hknhy L, Lovelacb, Manaqeb.
Published Weekly by the Pupils or the
Chemawa Indian School.
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' Remember. "Cleanliness is next to
Godliness."
One of the greatest lesions in life is to
learn to take people at their best, not their
worBt; to look for the divine, not the hu
man in them; the beautiful, not the ugly;
the bright, not the dark; the straight not
the crooked side.
Every Friday night the pupils and em
ployee enjoy their regular weekly sociable
and Band Concert in the Gymnasium. It
would do you good and make you feel 10
years younger to be present at one of these
pleasant gatherings, where the cares and
worries of work are buried in a flood of in
nocent and healthful amusements.
The shops are now all running in full
blast, where boys are learning the beat
paying trades of the day. The instructors
in charge of the Chemawa Shops are all
experts at their trades, and have fewequals
anywhere. The results prove this, as the
young men who fiuish their trades here,
can successfully compete and bold their
own with the average white mechanics of
th country, receiving the same wages.
Dairying, poultry raising, fruit growing,
gardening and farming are the best paying
industries on the Pacific Coast. It will
pay the Indians to learn one or all of these
important lines of Work thoroughly. The
Chemawa School will make a specialty of
teaching these industries in a scientific
and practical war. so that its students will
thoroughly understand them, and be able
to go to their homes and make independent
fortunes in the same manner that hundreds
of while men are doing.
The boy who does not like to study and
will not try to make something of himself,
is the one who goes home and tells his
parents, that he does not get enough to eat,
and any other complaints which his fertile
brain can manufacture for an excuse to
keep out of school, He does not care
what he says or how much he misrepresents.
All he wants ia an excuse. Such boys are
found in every school, white or Indian.
But sensible fathers Hod mothers will not
listen to such tales of woe, and will maroh
their children back to school in double
quick time, knowing it is best for them to
be in school and get au education while
they are young.
An apprentice, who goes into any de
partment with a sou I determination to learn
and master the trade that he or she de
sires to learn and goes to work at anything
that bis or her employer thinks best to be
done, without saying a word or having a
better way to do this, that and the other,
will never have any trouble in learning
the trade or getting a position either. It
does not make any di (Terence what
your employer tells you to do, even if yon
do think it is not right, or will be of no
benefit to you, go ahead and do It with a
cheerful heart and band. They will never
give you anything to do that you cannot
do. Think about it, and brace up and dn
everything that you are directed lo do and
say nothing back that would annoy auy-one.