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Chemawa Indian School.
8. The Domestic Science department
has a separate building especially adapt
Pd 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.
The school was established by Major
Wilkinson, February 25, 1880, being the
second oldest Non-reservation school in
the United States. From a small school
of twenty-five children it has grown step
by step from year to year. Last year
was the most prosperous in its history.
The total enrollment for the year being
775 pupils, having an average attend
ance 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 Chemawa..
Now a last word to the Indian parents
and Indian young men and women de
siring an industrial education at the
Chemawa school. If you desire admis
sion this term write at once to Supt.
Chalcraft, and fill in the following blank,
cut it out and send it fo Supt. Chal
craft, who will immediately end you
application blanks.
Name
Age
Tribe
Father...
Mother
P- 0. ....
LEARNING HOUSECRAFT.
Students at the College of housecraft,
London, rise at 6:30 and attend to all
che work of the establishment. The steps
have to be brushed and whitened, the
hall door brasses polished, the kitchen
grate is cleaned and the fire laid; break
fast has to be prepared and the dining
room put in order by 8 o'clock. The
bedrooms next occupy attention, beds
being made and rooms dusted and ar
ranged for the day. On certain days
laundrv work occupies the students, the
certified teacher giving exhibitions of
household washing of every description,
including washing and making up of fine
laces, silks and woolens.
In the cooking class special attention
is devoted to the planning of menus ac
cording to the season of the year and to
the requirements of particular house
holds. The making of cake and bread,
jams and pickles is also taught, and the
students are initiated into the mysteries
of marketing how to buy meat, fish,,
vegetables and fruit, and how to discern"
the quality of any particular commodity.
Simple renovations in upholstery,
mending of household linen, use of the
sewing machine, the making of polishes
and cleaning pastes, the right way of
carrying out spring cleaning with a min
imum of discomfort to the household,
are but a few of the items included in
the curriculum at the college. Chicago
Post.
RESIGNS IMPERIAL RANK.
Japanese newspapers devoted much
space lately to the resignation of imperial
rank by Prince Terhisa, son of Prince
Kitashirakawa. He was divested for
mally of his rank on July 20, and is to
enter the navy as a midshipman. This
is theonlv instance of the kind in mod
ern Japan. Exchange.