INDIAN GIRLS AT HAMPTON.
From Harper’s Monthly.
The accompanying cuts were published in Harper’s Monthly, April, 1881. The improvement made in the appearance of Indian students, boys and girls, by a three years’ course of study at Hampton has convinced more than one observer from the Western frontier that there is something better to do for the red man than to shoot him on sight. Miss Helen W. Ludlow, one of their teachers, says of the two older girls that appear in the picture: “They have been among the farmers of Berkshire County, Mass., working for their board, sharing the home life and improving in health, English and general tone; they have won a good report from the families which have taken them, even better this year than last, and have done much to increase public sympathy for their race. The Indian girls’ improvement has been as marked as the boys’. Their early inuring to labor has its compensation in a better physical condition apparently, and their uplifting may prove the most important of factors in the salvation of their race.”
From Harper’s Monthly.