| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. 'x':e3::e ssrozRTiEa: id.s.ikio'T’.s. :B.a.:t>T:isr:E:E2. 3 qualified for their duty as those of the literary departments and admitting them to membership in the tenehers' as" soeiations of the schools, and by in-troduciug into the above mentioned departments the most modern methods and appliances for both manual trainimr and trade teaching.” One thing of importance not embodied in this resolution, and to which it seems eminently proper to call attention, is the fact that next to the preparation for employment is the means of securing it. The abilities of the deaf are best known to those who have had charge of their education during the most formative period of their lives, and such persons would bo best qualified to secure for those who need it a chance to start in life. Industrial bureaus established and maintained at the different schools might best accomplish this purpose, and would be a means of assistance in many other ways. To the end these desirable features may be brought about as speedily as possible, the Committee on Industrial Affairs of the National Association of the Deaf offers to co-operate with the management of each school for the deaf in the country and work with a common end in view, i. c., the betterment of the industrial condition of the deaf. To your kindly and thoughtful consideration the above is respectfully submitted. Warren Robinson, Chairman, Dela-vuu. Wis.: Alex. L. Paeh, and Phil. L. Axling, Committee on Industrial Status of the National Association of the Deaf. We are in hearty sympathy with industrial training: and while we have not much to show along that lino in our school as yet. the fault is not ours. c have tried to get funds from the State Legislature to erect a suitable building and to provide) for the teaching of trades. Our State is young, so are we as a school, and we cannot expect to have every need provided for at once. We hope the Legislature next winter will recognize this branch of work and make provision for it. Local Items. Next Sunday is Master. Lydia Wiese is expecting a package from home soon. Some of the little girls will have new dresses for Master. The gymnastic exercises have been stopped for the present. Jumping the rope is all the rage among the girls nowadays. Willie. Mcssner now rides his wheel back and forth to get the mail. The yard has been cleaned and we hope to see green grass very soon. Hattie Graavcn received nice letters and a photograph of her papa not long ago. A friend of Lydia Wiese sent her a very pretty silk handkerchief a short time ago. Grace Ziegler will be able to be out next week. All will be glad to see her up again. Miss McGowan took some very good pictures of the older girls in gymnasum suits recently. Elmer Stearns has been showing a picture of himself and his folks, which he received last week. Gilbert Isackson wonders why he does not hear from home: he has not gotten a letter for some time. The pupils’ delight in the pleasant weather is very noticeable. They stay out in the yard as long as it is light. On Saturday last Annie Miller bought a new ball. She and her playmates are seen playing ball these day. Several days ago Oscar Twcto received a package from home containing some colored pencils and a nice box of writing-paper. April first was Peder I Icon's seventeenth birthday and he received a package containing thirty cents and useful articles from home. Not long ago Birth Hanson’s mother and sister called at the institution. They remembered some of the boys with photographs of Birth. If you see William Weber’s lingers Hying in an incomprehensible fashion, you must remember that he has mastered the Italian alphabet. Trustee Boynton gave Grace Ziegler a copy of the “ Scarlet Letter” and a box of candy when lie attended the meeting of the Board this week. An uncle of Leister Williams is in Seattle, Wash., preparatory to going to Cape Nome, Alaska. Leister hopes that he will return with great riches. George Kreidt has secured a job near Moorhead, Minn., for the summer. This will be his first experience away from home for more than a year at one time. Lindcman Bull's sister writes that a new store will be built at Mandan the coming summer, lie hopes that his home will become a large city in a few years. Inga Anderson is authority for the statement that " March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. Lorents Larson says that Roberts went into the Transvaal like a lion and will go out like a lamb. Lulu Helms’ brother has returned home after a visit to relatives in Michigan for several months. He brought a bride home with him and surprised the folks. Through the Montana correspondence to Ome n Week we learn that John Clarke is at a school in Milwaukee, Wis., to learn art. We presume that he is now preparing himself for something to make his living at, Grace Ziegler had a letter from Ida Carlson last week, saying that she hoped she would be able to see the incomparable Admiral Dewey in St. Paul next summer when he makes his promised trip. Ida seems to make a favorable impression on all her new friends in the Minnesota School. Mr. Kilpatrick's sister, who is a teacher there, spoke in a recent letter of a pleasant call she had just enjoyed in her room from Ida. On the 30th of March the Wade Literary Society held a melting. The program was as follows: 1. Essay—“Joan of Arc." by Mffie Smith. '1. Debate—Resol red that traveling by rail is better than traveling by boat. Christopher Anderson and Bertha Kiriksson were on the affirmative side, and Mabel Sharp and Murdoch McMurehy on the negative. The judges—Leister Williams. George Kreidt and Inga Anderson—awarded the victory to the negative side. 3. A story by Kthel Grady. 4. Topics of the day. by William Weber. r>. A dialogue by Mabel Grady. Lorents Larson, Lindeman Bull and Martin Kngcn. 15. A declamation by Clarence Sharp. Mr. Kilpatrick acted as critic in place of Mr. Seaton as the latter was busy with the dialogue. A motion was made that the society hold one more meeting and then suspend until fall. There! there! it's just as we feared. A long residence in Devils Lake has told on our friend, C. D. Seaton, '!>3, and he has taken to the Black Art. We read of wonderful exhibitions by him before the innocents of North Dakota and tremble in propcct of 12 o'clock midnight on the accounting day. — Buff and lil nr.
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