Chemawa Indian School. 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. 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 Siipt Chalcraft, and fill in the following blank, cut it out and send it fo Supt. Chal craft, who will immediately send you application blanks. .Name 'Age.... Tribe.. iFather. Mother . - - U. iv. ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPELLED. The struggles of foreigners with our anomalous language often seen amusing, and yet it is perfectly natural that one should look for infants in an infantry, for steers in the steerage, connect pork with porcupine, and assume that boughs of the trees are so named because they bow in the wind, or that a lady's gallant has some relation of thought of the rain bow. Write and right, red and read, reed and read, through and though, plow and know, all these simple words are mastered with difficulty by people in whose own language the sounds are con stant, and however delicately differen tiated, as the French ai and ais are prac tically unvaying and always to be ac counted for by rule. For all this one hates to think of the sturdy English pages being planed down to the uniform look which French has to the English reading eyes. If the boughs of the trees become bows, they would verily seem stripped of their branches and twigs, yes oft heir very leaves, for does not ofib feej the wind breathing through that "ough"? To be sure the soughing of the wind is, dictionary-wise, called suffing, but nobody ever reads it that way. The "ow" sound must moan there to give the proper melancholy. "Use, unite, urn, up, circus, menu," here is a hint of the foreigner's difficul ties, with these six u's, which are taken from the table of sounds in the new Webster's international dictionary which by the way has the most con venient and complete way of enabling one to get at authorities for various pronunciations among its many other excellencies. To be sure, certain of the authorities prefer that sound "ow" for the word "sough" but who even so, would wish to see that deeplj7 poetical word spelled sow? Ex.