The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 126, Apr. 1881, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers The Arizonas work in the forenoon and attend school in the afternoon. In school they are just making a beginning. They are now learning to count as far as twenty, and to pronounce such sentences as ''I write.'' ''I want to write.'' In the Indian' study hour, from seven till eight, P.M. they do real earnest work. Two nights in the week they have a prayer meeting from eight to nirle. Wednesday evening they have a prayer meeting of their own, which is pretty well attended. Besides these meetings, they attend church, Sunday School, and a Sunday evening lecture. Recently a morning inspection has been instituted for the Indian girls. With their dish washing, cooking, washing and ironing, and sewing school, in the afternoon, the girls are kept almost as busy as the boys. It is pleasant to make a visit in the afternoon to the different work departments. In the training shop, we find one boy fitting a pair of shoes on the last, one patching a pair; over there, another making a lamp, and another a dish-pan; here, another boy making a table, and another one repairing a bench. On the farm, they are more scattered. Here we find two boys preparing a hot bed, yonder a squad cleaning off some ground, two or three repairing a fence, one boy plowing with a two horse plow. At the barn, one boy is preparing cow feed, while another is milking. At the wheel-wright shop one boy is making spokes, and another is painting a cart just finished. In the blacksmith's shop, one boy is blowing the bellows, while another is making a horse shoe, or shoeing a mule. At the engine room, we find the two engineers either firing up the engine or cutting pipe, while, at the printing office, we see a Shawnee and Pawnee hard at work setting up ''Incidents of Indian Life.'' Our only Indian tailor, we find hemming a towed or repairing a pair of pants. Take it all in all, from morning till night, we have a pretty busy set, and the progress in study and work is steady and encouraging. B. T. W. Southern Workman, lo (Apr. 18 ), 43. ~ Probably Annie Lyman and Carrie Anderson, both Sioux. 2 Antonito Azul was thirty years old and remained slightly over a year at Hampton (~88~-82), studying the adaptability of Hampton-type industry to the circumstances of his tribe. I 2 6