. Review of reviews and world's work. ry and the weaving ofstraw mats. There is a large and well-directedSloyd school, which turns out work of quite sur-prising excellence. The women patients aremostly engaged indoors, though some of themwork in the gardens and around the lawns. Theordinary housework is entirely in their are also employed in the kitchen and laun-dry, and the more intelligent among them drilledto be waitresses. The matrons reports showan almost appalling number of articles made,mended, and sewed. They run up into the thou-sands and include most imaginable things from
. Review of reviews and world's work. ry and the weaving ofstraw mats. There is a large and well-directedSloyd school, which turns out work of quite sur-prising excellence. The women patients aremostly engaged indoors, though some of themwork in the gardens and around the lawns. Theordinary housework is entirely in their are also employed in the kitchen and laun-dry, and the more intelligent among them drilledto be waitresses. The matrons reports showan almost appalling number of articles made,mended, and sewed. They run up into the thou-sands and include most imaginable things frompillows, bandages, and sheets down to towelsand coat straps. The greatest care is given to the training andeducation of the children, for it is on them thatthe colony relies to prove its final usefulness. Alittle old Shaker schoolhouse was made ready forthem in the first year of the colonys life, andthere with infinite patience they are taught toread and write and work the simplest sums in 316 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF DINNER-TIME AT THE CRAIG LUMBER CAMP. arithmetic. Even when tlie effects of their earlyyears of neglect have been partially overcome,the residuum left to work upon is, after all, apeiverted and unfinislied product. It is not pos-sible to supply what is lacking ; all that is aimedat is to make tlie best use of what there is, in thehope that gentle discipline in tlie supervision ofwhat is found to interest them may gradual-ly lead to tlie forming of those qualities of ap-plication and self-control which will fit themfor a useful after life. As a rule, it is foundthat the children take more readily to manualwork—such as clay-modeling, basket-weaving,sewing, and drawing—tiian to purely mental ex-ercises. A layman cannot pass upon tlie scientific treat-ment of the patients at Craig Colony ; but it ishardly possible to read the reports of the medicalsuperintendent without findmg in them a grow-ing conviction that the usefulness of drugs is ofseconda
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