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 .
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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.