Arizona republican., 1903-05-11

umbrella tree, impresses one as being
 eminently practical in character. The
 educat tional ideals that are most inn pressed upon the students are those Of cleanliness, industry. patriotism, and
 ambition. Stress is laid on a thorough
 mastery of some trade, more than upon literary attainments, though the stu dent is given, too, n good working
 knowledge of the English language.
 He is fortunately spared an unsatis- factory smattering of Greek tragedy
 and the modern French novel. A thor
 ough understanding of the best
 method of irrigating a cornfield is felt to be more essential"
 An interesting feature of Indian school work is the great benefit which
 has been derived from the employment of Indian teachers. And, while MT. Raine does not, elaborate the idea, it
 is manifest that teaching opens an in
 viting and unlimited field for graduates from the schools.
 With a total enrolment of 359, the
 Santa Fe school has 46 quarter breed,
 AS half breed. quarter breed,
 and 26O full-bloOded Indian pupils. This is a percentage of PA of full -blOods. Out of total enrolment of 66S stu dents at the Phoenix school 4S3, or 72.3
 per cent. are full bloods. About twenty-five tribes are represented, but
 the Pimas, Papagoes, Maricopas and Yumas are the most numerous; the Pimas at Phoenix (273) outnumbering those in the large reservation board ing school at Sacaton. Each of these schools has full blooded Indian teach CTS, Miss Addie Beaver of the Phoenix school being a granddaughter of Te- cumseh.
 All the ordinary mechanical Occu- pations likely to be useful in the future life of the pupils are taught at the
 Phoenix 6ndian school. The girls learn
 housekeeping. cooking. sewing. dress
 making dairying and laundry work: the boys have ample chance to find their natural bent in the bakery, the
 machine or tailor shops, the engine room, or at printing, woodwork. car pentry, wheelwrighting, blacksmithing. | painting, shoemaking, timing, harness
 making, horticulture, or farm manage ment. The policy of the school is to
 rely, as far as possible, upon home in dustry. The students make all the
 furniture they can. Tables, desks, ice
 chests. revolving four bins. screens,
 and a hundred ether useful articles are manufactured at the school carpenter shop. Vegetables from the garden help supply the table. All the boys uni- forms are made at the school tailor
 shops under the eye of an experienced tailor; and they fit as snugly as could be desired. In the dressmaking de- pertinent all the girls clothing is made. One hundred skirts had been turned out in three days before the one on which the writer visited this room. The course extends through two years work, and is designed primarily for those intending to follow dressmaking for livelihood. This course is supple mentary to the department of sewing
 where all the girls are taught the lay
 ing of hems, basting, running, over
 casting, fitting, gathering, machine
 stitching, and alarming, as we'll as tho care and mending of clothes.
 "The weekly paper, a very creditablA
 journal, edited and printed exclusively
 at the school, is quite free from typo
 graphical errors and grammatical
 slips
 Tn addition to plain sewing. fancy
 work is also taught. One piece done by
 little lame girl, not yet 13 years old, is valued at s1OO. Cautiously enough,
 those most adept with the needle arz
 quite often not personally so neat as
 their less skillful companions. One
 could not watch these little dark -face1 Iearnest natives, ,arrayed in the trim blue ginghams of the school uniform and
 busy at their drawn work, without <,
 feeling that it was a waste of time and energy. Enough white women are
 spelling their eyes and nerves over
 fancy work without teaching it to the aborigines. The Jicarilla Apaches are notable basketmakers, as are also the
 Pimas and the Maricopas. The Nav ajos are famed for their blankets and the Hopis Casually miscalled Mokis: the name Mok was originally given in 1 derision by their enemies, the Navajos) for their pottery. The demand for these Indian wares is rapidly increasing, and it would seem the part of wisdom to teach them the art in which they have already proved their fitness and through which they may hope to make
 a living"
 MT. Raine was particularly pleased
 with tie discipline and intelligence
 shown by the pupils at the Phoenix
 school.
 Two government inspectors were at the school on the same day on which the writer first visited it. Everywhere
 was the busy hum of industry-in the. classroom, on the hay field, in the shops, in the steam laundry, and in the dining room, where girls were setting the tables for seven hundred hungry pupils. Suddenly, the fire-drill bugla rang out, and from every building poured the dusky students. Lithe broad-shouldered young men, with straight hair flying in the wind, came
 racing across the campus from the field and shop and dairy to the fire-house or to the buckets awaiting such an emer- gency. Every student had his work to do and did it, even if it were only keep ing out of the way of those more act