Show TEACH IN FAR NORTH I MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ONLY WHITE RESIDENTS They Tutor In I Old RussIan Settlement I at Afognak AlaskaAre Well I Treated by Natives of Unique I Little Island I Mrs C W WIlnmnmnnd Hammond and hc laugh or are teaching In what Is Per UPS the most Interesting school linden the stars and stripes They are till teachers appointed by the government tu conduct the native school lit Afog unIt Allslm Afognnk Alaska Is but little known to the people of the United States yet It was the thIrd town started by the Itusslans In the early part of the last century on the Pacific It would nave little reason to demand even the attention of the government today were It not for the fact that one oi the best Indian schools conducted In the tetiltoiy of Alaska Is maintained there Afognak Is on an island of the same name in southwestern Alaska Mrs C W Hammond and hOI daughter are registered at the Dlllci hotel They have the task of teaching the El pupils who are enrolled at the Afognak school and It Is not likely that In all the possessions of the United States Is there such a varlet of color or Intelligence among the mi thes who ate being educated On one thing the natives horn tho Aleuts to the Russian octoroons are a unit Every one Is the most devout of Greek Catholics on Sunday On other dare they are slmplj natives It was last year that Mrs Hammond who formerly lived at San Juan Island In Washington state was appointed teacher at Afognak When she ar lived there she found u school which had been established 20 years It wis rearranged to conform to modem Ideas and In a few weeks Mrs Hammond Ham-mond will with her daughter beglr the fall term I enjoy the work said Mrs Hammond Ham-mond for I find a great study In the natives It would surprise people tc know that of tho 81 pupils In the school there Is hardly one who does not take naturally to drawIng hIt h-It Is astonishing to find that little tots who are just able to toddle to the schoolhouse when furnished with a lencll and paper begin drawing 1 have fostered and encouraged this trait and there ao several of the old ei children who are really clever Music however Is tho one thing that wins them from the old gray haired men and women to the little boys and girls They love music They can sing far better than an equal I number of country children In the states They have their favorite Instruments In-struments too mandolins and accordions ac-cordions Do they have phonographs Why there Is not a popular air that has been sung In the United States In the last ten years that Is not common In Afognak within three months after the record Is made I am taking a trunk full of records un with me And among I tho records I had a demand for some real classical music So far ns the studies go I cannot Bay that the natives are anxious te learn English in Its higher branches There are some who are quite well advanced but there are also nanny I who attend school only by compulsion although they are very pioud of what education they possess after leaching maturity Afognnk shows that tho white Hood must predominate There are two villages One Is the real native Aleuts town the other the half castes I have noticed that any native who has a drop of white blood in his or her veins looks down on the full blooded native There ate no white men stationed at Afognnk A few prospectors and nun tcis call there occasionally so Mrs Hammond and her daughter ate alone nmong the natives They say they get along splendidly with them |