The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-08-04

before. They were unable to attack
the words at sight, but sang the sol
ia accurately and unhesitatingly with
out the slightest bashfulness. In adj
dition to the school work under a
teacher, they have religious exercises
of their own several times in the
week, most of them either of di-
rectly Christian character or having
a tendency that way, so that the en-
tire education from $50 in the morn
ing till 8.45 at night is largely in
the Christian groove.
The Normal pupils are all boarders.
They pay 96 year for boarl and
educa, ion. They pay for books out
side of that. In all the schools of the
American Board put togethe- in this
district, the natives buy $4,000 Of
books a year. Such is the rush for
Christian education at the present
time that it is difficult to find room
for all the boys and girls who want
to come, but the missions are all
lengthening their cords and strength
ing their stakes as fast as ever they
can. All told, there are 5000 pupils
| in the American Board school in this
district just now, and it is anticipated
by the missionaries that in very
few wears there will be twice that
number calling for the Christian ed
ucation.
Mr.. LIE Roy says that the time has
come in the evolution of things when
the natives must have some kind of
education. If the missionaries can
not give them Christian education,
4 they will have some kind of educa-
ton from boy or girl who has got
a few scraps of it in primary school,
and it can be seen what kind of or
der or morals would pervade such a
school as that. The question might
have been raised SO years ago, SHOULD
we educate the natives ?" That is no
longer question that need be raised.
The natives have come to see for
themselves that education, and es-
pecially Christian education, is the
one thing to give the race a place in
the sun. The burden is laid on the
white man to provide Christian ed
ucation.
The Girls At Home
| IL l,..l of
ternoon, and found everything spick
and span. In a building which was
once the home of the Seamens' In
stitute at the Point, and bought by
the Adams people when it was dis
carded. the girls of the School have
their dining hall, library, and two
small dormitories. The other dormi-
tories stand at right angles, and the
house of the teachers at the top of
the enclosure, forming another side
of a parallelogram. Miss Frost and
Miss Clarke are in charge of the girls,
and live on the premises. The build
ings are hedged in by high barbed
wire iron fence, which, Miss Frost
said, "Gives them sense of security
at night" One of the days | was at
the Mission, baboon was seen tear
ing around the grounds in the after
noon. From the knoll on which the
buildings are situated, the ground
slopes abruptly to the south. They
are more neatly kept than the boys
gardens, which says good deal, and
many of them have flowers growing
in them which the boys do not have,
to any extent, in theirs. In one garden
there were a number Of strawberry
plants.
i On the opposite slope all the girls
were busy hoeing weeds in prepara-
ton for ploughing. A native teacher
was in charge. The work seemed to
be great fun to them. They were keep
ing up a conversation with each 9TH
er, and having a hearty laugh now
and again. When their two and a
half hours were in, they repaired to
the dormitories for little while, and
then began to file out to the water
. tank, where there were two fires of
wood burning. Around those fires
were standing II fatirons. Round
tables with a cloth cover on each
stood near For bathing purposes they
have bathhouse attached to the dor
, mitories, but for washing clothes they
! go to the river every Monday. The
day / refer to was ironing day. The
. ironing was done very neatly.
: / wanted to hear the girls sing
, alone. Miss Clarke took me into the
dining hall as they were sitting down
| to supper, and asked them to sing a
. hymn or two. was startled to hear
the four parts of the music, and the
, bass the most pronounced Of any. ]
lfo,,rI +Lo4 al nrxf a dnzon nf tho Girl q