While taught to be neat, the
goal kept ever in sight has been, a happy usefulness in their own
homes, the elevation of the mass just as fast as was consistent with
mutual love and sympathy, the people not feeling that their
daughters were denationalized, and they not lifted out of sympathy
with the homes they were to bless. Hence, even in 1844, we find the
mud floor of the small school room covered with straw mats; one
window, of oiled paper, admitting the light; and a brick stove, with
a few rude benches, its only furniture. In the other room, where the
cooking was done, the pupils ate, and spent their time out of
school. Here were two windows of like material; and besides the
mats, the floor was covered with a thick felt, on which they spread
their beds at night. A table was provided, covered with a coarse
blue and white check. There were also a set of coarse plates and a,
few other dishes, but no knives nor forks. They eat their soup with
wooden spoons, and their other food with their hands. Their
clothing, like their cooking, was mostly in native style; and they
were taught to make it for themselves.
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