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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Twenty cents a day does not seem a large sum to
spend for beer and tobacco, yet in fifty years it would
amount to J'20,000. What maintains one vice said
somebody, "would bring up two children " We can
run into debt but it is not so easy to walk out. Extra
vagance and ignorance are Siamese twins. To be eco
nomical one must be intelligent. An ignorant person
does not know how to save. A wasteful person wil
leave as much pie and cake on the table as would
feed a tramp. An ignorant person always leaves
something on the table that he or she might as well
eat, because he or she imagines this is an evidence of
delicacy and refinement. The person who will throw
good bread and sound meat in waste barrel will soon
have nothing to throw anywhere.
To bread the butter instead of buttering the bread
is waste, and waste is poverty.
It takes intelligence to cook the meals, to cut the
clothes to save. A newly wedded wife, boarding at
the sea-shore, wrote: "Dear John: I enclose the hotel
bill," he replied, "Dear Jane: Please don't buy
any more hotels at this price, they are robbing
you."
It is safe to say that the fellow who has to break the
baby's bank opea to pay car fare isn't going to be
a Rockefeller, and perhaps it is better that he
shouldn't be.
Guy, the London bookseller and afterwads the
founder of a great hospital, was a great economist.
One evening while reading by the light of a candle,
he was visited by a friend.
After learning his visitor's business he blew out
the candle saying, "We can talk in the dark."
"That's economy," remarked the visitor "Yes" he
replied, "that's how I was enabled to found the
hospital."
After the Savior increased the loaves and fishes he
gave the command to gather up the fragments that
nothing be lost. These great truths should be care
fully impressed on the young Indians' mind.
Since the Government has ceased to feed the In
dians they are making more progress. They are
learning that a dollar is equal to one hundred cents.
The result is that they are becoming self sus
taining on every reservation, and the Government is
beginning to realize that one Indian on his feet is
worth a dozsn Indians sitting down and drawing
rations.
'i he Indian has the unfortunate faculty of buying
what he docs not need, especially if it is cheap and
showy.
When the Sisseton reservation was opened a few
years ago, and the Indians came in possession of
money, they made it fly.
Unprincipled white traders fleeced them to the
Queen's taste.
They sold them everything they didn't want old
fashioned buggies, sjwing machines, pianos, organs
and one poor old fellow even bought a hearse to ride
to church in.
The seller made him believe that it was the nobbiest
of all turnouts just the thing for live people to ride
in.
To be continued.
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pupils' items i
Work on the Middle Sized Boys' Home
has begun.
We are having some lovely weather
here lately.
The cherry and peach trees are in
full bloom.
The farmers are busy sowing seeds at
Lake Labish.
Addie Cameron is making a nice plaid
dress for Katie Walker.
Mr. Cooper and his boys are very busy
trimming the lawns this week.
Some of the boys are beginning to prac
tice on base-ball for this season.
Leon Parker is practicing very hard
throwing the sixteen-pound shot.
Sam McCush has been making some
tools to use in the blacksmithshop.
Chas. Bardwell has been coming to
school with a swelled face toothache.
Minnie Picard is working in the Hos
pital and she does her work very ni
iy-
The blacksmiths repaired Mr. Cooper's
carriage this week which was neatly
done.
Ella Flemmihg is still working for
Mrs. Spink. She must be a good little
worker.
We all wonder who the person was
that got fooled so badly on a pie last
Sunday.
Mr. Cooper is putting some new hedge
in the open spo ts in front of the large
boys' home.
The harness makers are busy making
harness. They have twenty sets of har
ness to make.