Fame Giveth [pp. 39]

The Indian in Transition
Indian transition to speak of the faults of
the reservation system other than to show
that, considering the circumstances and
environments of the Indian pupils prior
to school life and their return thereto,
they are making the best of existing conditions, and whether on reservations or
scattered among whites, are doing as well,
man for man, as the same number of
average scholars of our public schools. It
is not so wonderful that seventy-five per
cent. of the present generation of Indians
make use of the teaching given them, as
that the figures are not reversed.
Pondering the situation, giving credit
for what he has accomplished, remembering from what he came and what he
has to overcome in his transition from
savagery to civilization, is not the Indian
advancing as rapidly as we could expect?
Apaches (same group as on page 37), after One Year at School
FAME GIVETH
AME giveth, when the lips that would answer are dumb:
Light and warmth-when the heart they would quicken is numb;
Bright laurels to lay on a gray, drooping head;
Shining gold —when the soul'twould have ransomed is dead;
Brave medals-to wear o'er a breast in its pall;
Giveth all things but love-when't is learned love is all.
Sadie Bowman Meicalfe.
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