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serious work. Our chief aim along this method of designing is to work them out in rugs. We are using both the Navajo and the Persian methods of weaving. The Persian method allows them more freedom to carry out their intricate designs.

The work is slowly but steadily increasing in both interest and importance.

Loyalty of Students and Ex-students

No other school in the Indian Service can muster such a band of loyal students and ex-students as can Carlisle.

No doubt age and special opportunities as regards environments have been potent factors in the development of this loyal band, but the additional fact that the school has reached it present position after years of sacrifice and toil on the part of its employees, aided in their labors by special help and facilities granted by the Indian Office, has also left its imprint on the minds and hearts of these students.

The greatest advantage however that the school possesses is to be found in the special opportunities afforded for carrying out Commissioner Leupp's idea in regard to the "Outing System."

A better class of people, both from an industrial and moral standpoint, than that with which the Carlisle outing students make their homes cannot be found anywhere, and it is safe to say that to these same people is largely due the credit for the loyalty which is everywhere manifest on the part of students and ex-students.

These students and ex-students (many of the latter class are not sending their children to Carlisle) realize that the school, in bringing them in close contact with the everyday life of these people, has thereby laid the foundation and provided the opportunity for a noble and useful life

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The Outing System

As many of our pupils as can be spared from the work of the school are placed in families in April, from the lower grades. Others from the medium grades in May, and the most advanced when our academic sessions close the middle our end of June.

Those in the higher grades return to the school the first of September, unless arrangements are made for some to remain out and attend schools equal to our junior and senior grades. Some of these in the lower grades remain out during the winter and attend school with white children.

The first summer of the school we placed 19 pupils in families. The second year 104 of which 23 remained out to attend school during the winter. The number increased until we have had 893 who had outing privileges during a year, with about 400 in the public schools of the country. The pupils receive such wages as are paid for the like services in the locality where they are placed.

The earnings are theirs. From them they pay their railroad fare and buy what clothing they need in addition to the fitting out they get when starting out, but they are required to deposit one-half of their earnings at the school, to remain to their credit until they sever their connection with the school.

A thorough and careful system of investigation determines the desirability of each family before arrangments are made for placing the pupils and monthly reports are received from each patron, giving health, conduct, ability, habits and also a statement of finances. Their earning amount to from $21,000 to $27,000 a year.

It is in these families that the Indian girls get their instruction in housework and especially in cooking, and a large number come back to the school with a better knowledge of cooking that can be obtained at the best cooking schools.

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