Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-14

under the watchful criticism of Miss Lyman.
Finally we pass to the industrial rooms,
where we find Mics Milton instructing classes
in sneedlework, ETC., and with great interest
observe the instruction and practice of the
class of girls in the art of cooking, the SUBJ
ject to-day being cream cake, which is pre-
pared and baked under the direction of the
teacher. The MUSHROOM we must pass by,
and we can but glance into the vocal class Of
fifty from the normal department TO notice
that they are reading music quite readily
under the very successful instruction of the
music teacher.
NEW ORLEANS AND SAN FRANCISCO.
The reports are devoted to labors among
the negro and Chinese races, and are most
encouraging, as showing that progress, though
sometimes painfully slow, is made even in
and through the slums.
HAMPTON. VA.
There are to-day at Hampton eighty-fve
Indian students, fifty-seven boys and twenty
tribes. Saturday is a holiday for most of the
Indians, but the rising bell sounds loud as
usual, TO call the scholars to their early
breakfast, and the meal we'll over the work
call is given at quarter to seven. Most of
the Indian boys who have had their five half
days of school and I've half days at their
trades feel that they lave earned good hol-
iday, and are not disturbed by it. Eleven
who are in the advanced classes hurry off TO
the shops. Wildcat and Murie go 10 the
printing office to set up type tor the Southern
Workman; five are carpenters, and work on
the new desks and benches for the school.
Chisholm fits uppers on shoe-lasts to help fill
a government contract. Robbie C9nalez goes
to the big barn to put it in order and feed
the cattle. Peters works in the blacksmith
shop, and Maquimeius fits the spokes in a
new set of wheels, ard earns an extra
afternoon hour for himself by his good work.
Meanwhile the girls have gone to their
rooms and begun the weeks cleaning. The
floors are scrubbed, and the wardrobes and
bureau drawers put in order. Some
of them have cedar boughs, the
boys have cut for them, and they fasien
them upon the walls in pretty and fantastic
designs, tieing them with ribbons and hang
ing Christmas cards and bright papers from
them. A few make pretty bowers for their
dollies, and perch them in a cunning way
among the branches, where they get loving
and sdmiring glances from the little girls
below. Then the clothes which have been
washed and iroDed during the week are
laid out, and the room is ready for the
teachers visit. Nobody knows when the
Indian girls would think it worth while to
change their garments, or how they would
be laundried, il it were not for the weeks
luSpcCllOn AS IL pttts are AHoSt Ol
them full and white and neatly folded, and
the rather stolid faces grow eager as they
look over the teachers shoulder TO see
whether n zero or FIVE on the record is to
reward the work. Soon the matron's room
ia busy place. Girls in all the chairs and
girls on the floor, all manner of rents and
rips and holes to be repaired, and the
motherly ledy who has done the work many
times for her own children and grand
children, goes among them busy and patient,
finds patches and pieces, gives a hint here
and lesson there, till the garments are
whole again. When the mornings work is
done, the lawn in front of Virginia Hall be-
COMES gay playground. See-saw and jump
ropes, balls and croquet mallets are kept busy
all the afternoon. A few fortunate girls bor-
row a boat from one of the teachers and row
in the pretty creek. The boys come now and
then to the edge of the ground and look
rather longinsly over the boundaries, but
turn back and find q vent for their spirits in
football and leap-frog and the parallel bars,
remembering that Washington's birthday
comes next week and it will all be common
ground. The games last till the sun sends
It's last slanting beams over the creek and
the lawn, and the o'clock bell announces
that the day of work and pleasure is over
Before the shadows of night fall heavily, the
school assemblies in the chapel. The hush of
worship comes upon the crowded room. The
song of praise and voice of petition rise, and
then while all heads bow in silent prayer the
burden and pain and desire OF 500 hearts are
told to Him who understands. So another
week ends; its record is made OF success and
failure of work aud sacrifice.