The sun., 1899-04-30
world outside their tribal reservations Tho

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room older boys S and 50 sts sV4 We're y xraSt%a rnS
rat and tho dog The tcacherr herself was "a a
EradhHlate oi the indian school and was born
many Classes II roctSe & H't in arthmetis tS WHi and
geography. One Pima Indian girl was explain
| Ing on wall map the course, OF Magellan In
| big Hunlpi Indian girl with tattooed chin
| Ia fact that makes her heartsick since she has
teIligcntly why the lines Of Longitude, and par:
nllels OF latitude were adopted for the use OF
The young men and women who will finish
their course next juno werc In the midst OF q
history recitation when the reporter entered
their classroom. The class was at Tint moment
discussing the Norman invasion aud the events
leading W % to the battle battle OF Hastings, One Pima
modest. hcsitating speech q, brief description
Ct Magma Charta. lie said King John was
oil the time and let him be rich man" Then
he told how everybody but tho rich barons
got mad and said they would KIN the rich un-
less the rights were given in black and white,
which paper was tho Magma Chartn." One girl
said she thought the Magma Charta looked like
change in her serious face. that the NOrmans
made war on the Anglo-Saxons just as the
white people did later on the Indians. to got
The class IN music was n the midst Of learn
nn G foe9e ne S ngdh Rc
So their songs were in shrilI cultural. The
sTanrnestness Tn OF the singers was imnres'iye:
doing his best to sing well The teacher
raped again and again to ston the song when
singers would have been weary and vcxcd at
the countless vain attempts to get ahead. But
4 the Indians were tired mono of them showed
class was wrestling with the famous old COL
!cge song having tho chorus: In the morn
Ing they were seen Rolling down the bowling
Promptly at noon electric bells were rung in
all the buildings and tho students in single
iSSupl doors
buildings and wound their way to the further
fmd OF III the sch1ol grounds, TRSre RS arc at t
girls were on one walk and the boys on another
across the way. The school band of Indian
tSyveed y to tn Tie ana '" of cnp
march, by cIrcMitous route across tho plaza
shops. and fields and brickynrd during the
Imorning had their hours Of study and reeta.
taken by the students 81 tho morning. Tho
older girls busted themselves at their several
and went and worked in the Kitchens Others
took up their sowing and knitting. Tho small;
est est CIR girls went and romped on the grass. and
would do under the same circumstances In
the evening the smaller children We're marched
The older ones studied. read newspapers and
magazines and drew pictures.
Very human are these aboriginal children Mt
Ihrnix. trimming with good nature. Little
girls went ahout the college grounds with their
arms twined about one, agothcr's backs, The
have fierce. impetuous love for one another
Sometimes for dnvs two black eyed little tots
viii have such love for each other that each
is melancholy unless the other Is near Then
suddenly some trivial thing will happcn and
t%ach"rs in the in the the optnon % thnt @
these descendants Of savage warriors are most
amennbIG to discirlinc. The teacher who Is
seldom restore herself In their confidence. On
stories illustrative Of the devotion to their
tenchcrS OF Indian youths.
Indian boys DO not possess the germ Of re-
heiii9p nGainst lay or authority like their pale
rer-coored sweetness personiticd. During
study hours they sit in school dcmuro and neat
throat and another TT tying u their % dusky % braids i'i
but when they are not studying. when they are
sewing sewing or washing dishes or making beds or
national dress of shirtwaist and skirt and are
S mSpry ana c"mp,niGp8imiio ii and very interesting
The !oye Of homo that throbs within the In
dian girls heart is as great as that felt by any
White, white GiT cir, Long HGo nce S9ms 1nhinn
especially n, girl. loves her home. No matter
how squnlid. how primitive, and poor the old
w T"W fhS "uf hn may
pulsivc the crooked. wrnk lIed-faced old squaw
no, mother her or how utterly useless ard abandoned
loses her desire to be- there once more at
Lea least for a short visit; The rules Of the
woni bo b imrossiTIe s'' to Ss,nd condact toF the
TGe bos hH!a ove foTA for homo Hf9g'G HnsH Gmt
it wears away IN time by living in the white
man. fine 6u,,ldngs sleeping in good bEhs ard
longing for the freedom Of the reservation. the
lazy IN. in the wirkiup ,scizes an Indian boy or
the first opportunity. In tn" spring months.
when tn" memory Of early childhood roamings
hardest keen n a hnyS 20
tho Institution. But nowadays the demand tor
admission TO the school and the zeal Of stu
that few desertons OF pupils each year are
no, considered serious, matter,
Mile. lo seldom gets above her lovo for her
parents particularly for her sluaw mother
Any deGrce, q education does not make her
ASHAMED Of her mother. and years OF living
her birthplace. True. she will probably never
be rnntcnted to live in savagc,ry again. and she
that they We're not favored as She has been.
hermother r"speciaiIy Whsmovert he % cd sanaw mH'S
mother comes trudglng forty and even sixty
ths Hn1 5%t 5Sy'.y rs r" the
alwovs wolc9mci bv MS fo TRe TiR,' teaeSors sse
Eowncd aud attractive Indian school girl ana
hoI her rspnlsyc, n Erimy. rodor1erous mother is
may be wrarncd in the traditional Blanket. n
nnrniH handkrrchiGf tied about her walnut,
WrIHhIrI. cyhl'a D!l .hc", ner worn mOccaSinS
dusty. h"r gn0rled. knottcd hands gra.piug
IN" Stnif that helps her over the road her pa
tient. bowed head bearing still the burden Of
the panooSe bask ket whore the youngest of tho
Los wrGglrs and sleeps: vet She is received
hy her ,well-dress"d Intelligent. faced dauCh-
ter with open arms. with the fullest Of wei
.t,n1 comes; with q heart and lips. buhhllng oyer
with the love terms learned in the old. familiar
tongue which she. Ike others. falls back upon
Whenever real emotion Seizes her.
But what Of the results ?" Is natural
remark at the tale Of the wonderful work oi
converting fierce Apaches into useful men and
women. " II is all very well to educate these In
dians. and 70 treat them like fine boys and
girls hut will they stay educated? viii they
not go back to blankets and barbarism 2"
There are scotfcrs ut the work Of this Gov
eminent school in, Phrnix. The record at
Carlisle shows that less than ! . per cent of tho
graduates haye apsod into any degree Of
shvagcry, while more than 80 per cent. Of the
graduates hay" led useful. moral and Jealous
lives. About 20 per cent have occupied places
that white men fill ut good salaries. Tho
lhuniN school is too young to have so COM
nIcte . table Of statistics as that at Carlisle
Superintendent MCGOWAN therefore can speak
only generally and cite Individual eases
graduates from the PhrniN school several have
become small farmers and are. prospnrlng.
They have married girls they met in the school,
ana they live in little wooden houses as thou