El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-05

ing his own way by waiting on tables
and delivering "Princetonians" each
morning.
Not only in the school room Is effort
directed to training the mind of the
young Indian. At Carlisle they have
reading rooms. and the boys and girls
are encouraged to do outside reading
and study. There are also literary So
cieties for both boys and girls. An ides
of the effectiveness of the work of these
societies can be gained by the fact that
q team of three debaters from the boys
debating society defeated the represent
tatives of Dickinson in a public debate
at which an ex-congressnan. judge
and an eminent minister were judges.
The social life of the pupils is not
neglected. The Carlisle school is CO.
cationsl, and of course the manage
ment of boys and girls who have had
no home training is somewhat more
difficult than is the case in collegiate
Institutions having co-sducatior. But
the boys are imbued with the proper
ideas as to their bearing toward young
veloped by monthly rece ptions held in
Assembly hall, where the boys and
girls are thrown together under the
supervision Of teachers and instructors.
All this has to do with the mental de-
velopment of the young Indian. But
just as much Importance ia placed upon
practical training at Carlisle, and it ia
the work done in the shops and on the
farms that excites the most interest
self-supporting.
Half day in school and half q day
at work is the program for every pupil.
The boys are allowed to choose in which
of the various shops they will work,
and then they must be found regularly
at their bench. The principal mocha
nicsl arts, such as tailoring, shoemsk-
ing, carpenterinR, DISCRIMINATING,
harness-meking e, tin-smithipg, printing,
etc., are taught. It is a revelation to
visit this school at Carlisle and be
shown through the different shops. In
one you will see fifteen or twenty boys
working with saw and plane. making
doors or windows; in the next
about about the same number OF
making coats, vests and trousers;
and 30 through all the shops you will
find the Indian boys working with a
skill and industry that speaks we'll for
their native ability. Not only do these
shops furnish an opportunity for the
boys to learn themselves trade, SO as
to be in a position to take care of them
selves after leaving school, but their
existence also materially cuts down
The tailor shop has furnished all the
clothing for the boys since the school
was first established, twenty years ago.
The carpenter shop take caresof all re-
pairs and improvements. In q similar
manner the other shops make unneces-
sary the employment of any outside
labor to do work around the school
buildings.
There are two farms, and those who |
wish are taught the arts of farming
and the care of stock.
For the girls there is sewing school |
in which they are taught all kinds of |
needlework; q laundry in which all |
the laundry of all the pupils is done,
unless some of the boys wish to have /
their shirt bosoms immaculate, when /
they send them to the town laundry
The girls are also taught how to cook |
and are expected to take care of the
and other rooms.
The printing Office is one of the most /
helpful Institutions of the school. The
training in the Office, even If it does
not fit the boys to become expert COM
positors and pressmep, gives them q
of English and quickness
and aptness that are of incalculab BILE |
value in after life.
The most charac terietic feature of |
the school is what is known as THE /
Carlisle Outing System" 1t is fur
ther carrying out OF Major Pratt's idea
th at the ''best way to get civilization
in to the Indian is to get the Indian in
to civilization 1t means the placing
of the pupils of the school among farm
ers and others during vacation in
those lessons of civilized life which can
only be taught theoretically at school,
and Incidentally to earn some money |
for themselves. During the first vsca-
ton QS00) places we're thus found for
six girls and eighteen boys; this
number has steadily increased
until last year six hundred
we're out. If the conditions are such
ss to warrant it the pupils are en-
ter. and this year about two hundred
and fifty did 80. 1t ia stipulated, how
ever, in the agreement that they be al
lowed to attend the public schools in
the locality in which they are placed.
No pupil is sent unless he first volun
terily expresses wish SO to do, and
when he goes he signs an agreement
TO work faithfully, to be sober and in-
1ustriOus, to spend his evenings st
home and to attend church OF Sunday.
Practically the ''outing system" Is
means of the pupils earning money for
Last year the boys made
BIB, 541 30, of which they saved SR08 81;
and the girls earnings amounted to
of which they saved S3098 so;
ind total earning of S21 1926 so and q
,otsl saving of S83S711. The earnings
belong to the Garner individually.
Through saving system established
Sc the school each pupil has bank
Ind account-book, and by supervision
n its use the pupils are taught the
value of money.
Major Pratt holds it to be essential
hat ell prejudice of the white man
against the red man must be removed
before the Indian can measure up to