(Continued from front page.)
The girls have an excellent Mandolin
Club, the instrumentation consisting of
violins, guitars, mandolins, cello, double
bass and piano. Vocal music will be
taught to those desiring it and piano
lessons can be secured by those wishing
to take them.
8. The Domestic Science department
has a separate building especially adapt
ed for the purpose and the facilities of
Chemawa in this line are equaled by
only one other school in the Service.
9. In the Literary Department, the
instruction covers the branches taught
in Grammar schools of the country.
Some information about Chemawa
might be interesting. The school was
established by Major Wilkinson, Febru
ary 25, 1880, being the second oldest
Non-reservation School in the United
States. From a small school as then
established of twenty-five children it
has grown step b step and year by year.
Last year was the most prosperous in its
history. The total enrollment for the
year being 775 pupils, having an aver
age of 615. The school year closed with
382 boys and 266 girls on the rolls.
Under the new regulations it is now up
to the parents and the guardians and
the pupils to decide which school they
desire to attend. Certainly the attend
ance the last year speaks volumes for the
continued prosperity and good name of
'"hemawa.
Now a last word to the Indian parents
and Indian young men and women desir
ing an industrial education at the Che
mawa school If you desire admission
llii- term 'write at once to S"pt. Chalcraft.
If you want to enter Chemawa as a
pupil fill in the space below, cut it out
and send it to Supt. Chalcraft, who will
immediately send you application blanks
Name
Age
Tribe
Father ...
Mother
P. O. ...
R. R.
THE SEED.
, Give me the children of the land,
And let me fill their days with smiles.
Let me but take them by the hand
And lead them where the sun beguiles.
Let me but have them for a space
And in their little hearts instil
The joyousness of Nature's face,
And with God's songs their spirits thrill.
Let me but teach them where to find
The blessings that were made for them,
And how in service of mankind
Is found man's choicest diadem.
Let me have these and I will give
For each back to my fellow-men
A human flower that will live
And bloom a perfect citizen.
John Kendrick Bangs.
UNDERSTANDING
No! Right can never wrong!
No! Truth can never lie!
No! Love can never hate!
No! Life can never die!
For right is Truth maintained
Till evil is destroyed;
And God's great law of Love
Shown T, if a is unalloyed.
By M. G. Kains