The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 7, July, 1883Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 7, July, 1883
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The under classes had their customary reviews. The Indian classes
were special attractions, as usual, particularly the division of
latest comers, in which some tiny girls and solemn braves emulated
each other in telling, in unexceptionable English, what went
into and out of a remarkably omnivorous bag, and what evolutions
were performed by its various contents; their teacher winning
Dr. Eliot’s enthusiastic declaration that “her praises ought to
be sounded from the gutter to the university.” The Indians also
did well in geography, history, arithmetic and an elementary
botany class. The little kitchen-gardeners from the Butler School
were as captivating as usual in their white pinafores and red
turbans and housekeeping accomplishments. The center of the
industrial exhibition was the Stone Memorial building; handsome
wood work, turned moldings, flooring, doors, sashes, etc., from
the “Huntington Industrial Works;” shoes ready for filling the
contract for agency supplies; shining tinware from the “Indian
Training Shop,” sets of harness from the same; desks, settees,
tables and cupboards made for the school, and a neatly painted
sign—all the work of Indian and colored apprentices, whose names,
with the period of their training, from five months to three years,
were indicated on cards affixed to their respective productions.
The wheelwright and blacksmith shops showed similarly ax-helves,
wheels and iron work, and outside the door two gaily painted farm
carts proclaimed the skill of Indian and Negro mechanics. The
tailoring department showed suits of clothes made by colored and
Indian hands. The girls of both races were represented by very neat
sewing and inviting-looking cake. The farm products had a table to
themselves; early vegetables, grains and grasses. An interesting
exhibit was that of the little carpenters from the Butler School,
a couple of miniature frame houses, clap-boarded and painted, with
sets of tables, desks and chairs for furnishing.
The Normal School Press office had its own exhibit of printing and
book binding. The press was running, the student compositors, boys
and girls at their cases, and the veteran United States soldier at
his book-binder’s table.
The various shops were all in operation through part of the
morning, and many visitors walked through them to see the
Afric-American, native African and Indian apprentices working side
by side at their various trades in the commodious quarters in which
most are at last accommodated. Some extended their walk to the barn
to visit the stock.
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