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pealed to. A conscientious, humane, capable 

 Christian trader, with a wife thoroughly skilled 

 in household manufactures and handicrafts, 

 each speaking the language of the tribe with 

 whom they take up their residence, can do 

 [incalculable] good. Let them keep and sell 

 whatever articles are adapted to the Indians' 

 needs . . . and maintain an industrial school 

 for Indian women and children, which, though 

 primarily industrial, should impart intellectual 

 and religious instruction also, wisely adapted 

 in character and season to the needs of the 

 pupils. . . . Such an enterprise would grad- 

 ually'' [the italics here are mine] "mould a gen- 

 eration after its own spirit. . . . The Indian 

 likes bread as well as the white; he must be 

 taught to prefer the toil of producing it to the 

 privation of lacking it." Mrs. Wetherill is do- 

 ing, and striving to do, much more than Horace 

 Greeley held up as an ideal. One of her hopes 

 is to establish a "model hogan," an Indian 

 home, both advanced and possible for the Nav- 

 ajos now to live up to — a half-way house on 

 the road to higher civilization, a house in which, 

 for instance, the Indian girl will be taught to 

 wash in a tub with a pail of water heated at 

 the fire; it is utterly useless to teach her to 

 wash in a laundry with steam and cement bath- 



