The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-08-04
race, and the making going on under
their eyes.
Industrial Department

Inc NOTudl SCHOOL CLOSES az oilo
o'clock every day In addition to 10
a year for board and education, ev-
cry student engages, at entrance, to
work two and half hours day.
Some 500 acres of land were granted
by the Government in early days to
the Mission, as was done to all mis-
sions. The pupils put in their two
and half hours largely on the farm;
the boys in ploughing and harrow
ing, and the girls in gathering weeds
and keeping things snug generally
Near the boys dormitories, down In
the bottom of the basin by the river
side, are a number of interesting gar
dens. Every boy has a garden OF his
own, in which he cultivates vegetables
and flowers. The vegetables come IN
handy for the table. Girls and boys we
with one another in having the snug
gest and most productive gardens.
may mention that the food pro-
vided in the dormitories is no bet
ter than they have in the kraals; por-
ridge and a spoonful Of sugar for
breakfast; rice, potatoes, and other
vegetables for dinner; and porridge
with a spoonful of sugar for supper
again. On Sundays they have meat
for dinner and bread for supper, but
no other delicacies. They are told
what their fare will be when they
come, but the invariable answer is
at is food for the mind we come to
get"
In the industrial department there
is a carpenters shop, well equipped
with all the tools of the white-man
carpenter, and under the guidance OF
Mr.. Brueckner, it is marvellous what
good work is turned out. The I'M
taught natives Of the countryside are
learning to use such things as tables
and chairs, windows and doors. !
asked Mr.. lie Roy if it was the in
tention of mission stations to have the
natives to compete with the white
man in carpentry.
"No, no. he said; "our one inten-
ton is to train the natives to make
things for their own race, which will
raise them in the scale of civiliza-
tion."
There is a bootmaking industry go
ing on all the time. 1t is in charge OF
native. There is more bootmending
than bootmaking done. The bootmend-
ing Of many of the natives all around
is done in the Mission shop. They do
good work. had pair of boots
heeled as neatly as it could have been
done in Durham, and the same price
as in Durham was charged me. | had
slight scruple about this, because
i thought / was just encouraging the
white man to say, as he often says:
"They are training them to compete
with the European tradesman, to
drive him out of the country" My
conscience was solaced when found
he charged me the white mans price.
Maybe the native had an eye to the
white mans argument when he did
this.
There has been printing industry
connected with the station in former
times, which did all the printing of
the mission except the printing Of
books. For some reason or other it
has fallen into allegiance for some
years, but Mr.. LIE Roy is having it
revived again.
When the boys have put in their
days time on the farm, in the car
penter's shop, the bootmending shop,
or on housebuilding, they take to
games. heard their voices ringing
in glee on the other side of the river.
could see them too, from the door
step where / sat writing, large
bunch of them in heap, wriggling
and pulling and shouting.
And the girls; do they play games?
Yes, they do, as vigorously as the
boys. What games? Oh, just girls
games.
BY Miss Griffiths, who is an expert
in dressmaking as well as an excel
lent teacher, the girls are taught to
make their own dresses.
The games of boys and girls are,
of course, side issue, but the work
on the farm and in the shops, Mr..
lie Roy says, lis the only way to
progress and happiness. Without a
right attitude to labour, they will not
get very far" When they go away
for the holidays, he gives them seeds
to take home to their kraals and trees
to plant.
(Cnnfinnad NoYf Week \