THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS, 55

simple proposition, that man, as a reasonable being
must work if he would live, is both sentimental
and useless. Methods of work must then be laid
before the subject for civilization; and avenues
toward trades of all sorts, freely opened as to any
other specimen of humanity in our land, with a right
to practice such wherever he please, and the most of
our part in the matter will have been accomplished.
The Indian will take care of himself, We shall
hear very little of the terrible atmosphere now
clinging to him. To thoughtful minds who have
most broadly and conscientiously grasped the
situation, the “terrible classes” now swarming in
communistic secret strougholds throughout our
great city-centres, are infinitely more to be dreaded
than the educated Indian.

Here are some of the faces of “our boys and
girls,” as they lovingly call them at Carlisle. Most
of them have probably been but a few months
surrounded by the atmosphere of happy home and
school life; many probably first entering in the
abject state of terror before described; now in
greater terror at the prospect of being recalled
to their reservations when school-life ends. They
do not look very dangerous, do they? Ah! could
you see and talk with them, and watch the bright
expression, the earnest purpose, the pathetic grati-
tude, it might enlighten you a bit, and thereby
cause a wholesome revolution in your pet theory
on the subject.

The bakery at Carlisle affords a most interest-

 

THE INDIAN BAKERS,

ing practical refutation of the statement that the
Indian is incapable of using knowledge to any

benefit to his fellows. Whoever can turn out such
good bread as we saw with our own eyes, and

 

“OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.”

tasted and enjoyed with our own mouths, is a
real benefactor to the human race. It shamed
much that we put on our family
tables as the best result of Dinah’s
or Norah’s kitchen administration.
It was so pure and white and
sweet — well-baked and conscien-
tiously kneaded ; truly a most im-
portant proof of the Indian’s
adaptability to domestic duties,
Does it not make you want some
to see it in the picture?

An Arapahoe boy has charge
of the bakery; and assisted by a
Sioux and a Pawnee, bakes nearly
two barrels of flour into the loaves,
as you see in accompanying cut,
every forenoon of the week, with
the exception of Sunday. After-
noons these boys spend in the schoolroom.

Mental discipline and manual labor are given