Show HOSIETRAINING OF INDIAN I GIRLS At a recent meeting of the Depart meat of Indian Education in Charleston ton S C 1 paper by Miss Josephine Richards of Hamplon institute was read She began by recalling th words of Sitting Bull Take pity on my women for they have no future The young men can belike be-like the white men till the soil supply the food and clothing they will take I the work out of the hands of the wo te men and the women to whom we have owed everything In the past will be stripped of all which gave them power ant position among the people Give a future to my women And she continued we are surely working along the line of the old chiefs appeal when we consider how the Indian In-dian woman as she ceases to set up tho tipi can beconie the true upllflor of the home Miss Richards claims that it is not enough to teach thoso girls how to sweep and scrub and wash and iron we must strive s to get them in the habit of being neat In person and surroundings sur-roundings that they really cannot be comfortable otherwise Perhaps nothing noth-ing docs this more effectually than the outing syhlem when the home to which the pupil is si nt Is of the right sort The living week after week in a quiet refined wellordered household Is of Inestimable value In fostering a noble no-ble discontent with dirt and disorder In addition to this wo have found a housekeeping cottage to bp a very helpful help-ful adjunct to the training in dormitories dormi-tories cooking classes laundry etc during tho school year |