Considering the purpose of the education of the Indian which is to make him self-supporting as speedily as possible the opportunities and environment at Carlisle seem favorable. Effort is made to arouse in the Indian youth interest and ambition in life, and the courage and ability to compete in civilized industries. One half-day is spent in school, the other half in the various shops and workrooms. The boys learn the trades, and the girls are taught laundry work and sewing. Boys are given a choice of the trade they wish to learn, and are placed in the shops under competent instructors. The trades represented in the school are carpentry, wagonmaking, blacksmithing, harnessmaking, printing, tailoring, painting, tinsmithing, and shoemaking. The sewing for over nine hundred students is done by the girls. Beginners are placed in the darning class. From there they are advanced to the mending-room, where they are taught to do repairing and plain sewing. Each class does its own cutting. The dresses for the four hundred girls are made by the pupils in the dressmaking class. During the finishing year special training is given in drafting and fitting. It is observed that Indian girls are especially skilful with the needle, as were their mothers before them. The girls also receive instruction in cooking. A system of placing pupils out in families was conceived by the founder, General R. H. Pratt, and was adopted from the beginning. The girls work in the house, the boys in the field and shop. People thus receiving pupils from Carlisle must sign an agreement to send them to school a stated number of days, and to see that their habits are what they should be. Students employed received such remuneration as their services warrant. Two outing agents are employed by the school-one for the girls,