. Annals of Iowa . ng light by gas, water supplied bythe city water works and a steam plant for heat, gymnasiumand play room, where white games will be played. Thereare no bowls in the wash rooms and no tubs in the bathrooms. The faucet runs open in the wash room, and theneedle bath showers the bather as he stands under it, thusin both cases avoiding the second use of the water, so dan-gerous in the case of the skin-diseased Indian. There isalso a laundry building twenty by thirty-eight feet and twostories high, a barn thirty-five by fifty-five feet, three storieshigh, a work shop and other su
. Annals of Iowa . ng light by gas, water supplied bythe city water works and a steam plant for heat, gymnasiumand play room, where white games will be played. Thereare no bowls in the wash rooms and no tubs in the bathrooms. The faucet runs open in the wash room, and theneedle bath showers the bather as he stands under it, thusin both cases avoiding the second use of the water, so dan-gerous in the case of the skin-diseased Indian. There isalso a laundry building twenty by thirty-eight feet and twostories high, a barn thirty-five by fifty-five feet, three storieshigh, a work shop and other suitable buildings. It is hoped that this school will start the children arightand so restrain them through the years that after anothergeneration they will avoid most of the barbarisms of theirparents and develop into as good citizens as James Powe-shiek, Sam Lincoln and John Canoe, above named. Butwhether there will be one or fifty children in attendance, noone can guess. Attendance is optional, and the rash parent. THE TAMA COUNTY INDIANkS. 207 who thus gives up his child, must defy his own parents andall the wise men of his tribe, and worse than all else, he be-comes a hated infidel; and an Indian hates an infidel as thor-oughly as does his Christian brother. They do not takekindly to the mysteries of the Christian religion, but clingto the medicine man, the religious dance and much othersavage nonsense, with a sublime tenacity that cannot be ig-nored by those who would help them. One feature of their religion seems to be a pro-hibition of the attendance of girls at this school. Duringthe thirty or more years of the fertility of their women, theyare believed to be under an evil spell during the monthlyvisitation, and at such times, whether in the heat of summeror the cold of winter, they are religiously and cruelly ban-ished to a little six by eight tepee near the family hut, thereto remain in solitude till recovery restores them to the worldagain. During this mournful period
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