. Just boys in Sholapur. skill and knowledge of the game. Onlyrecently has a ball been provided for the American gameof basket ball. Fortunately the Mission compound isvery large and furnishes fields for a variety of out-doorgames. The boys need greatly gymnastic and athleticapparatus. They do not get enough exercise. They arejust as full of life as can be and are apt to get into mis-chief when they have no proper vent for their energies. The Indian boy likes music just as his father and motherand sisters do. The drum is the chief musical instrument,and it has a true fascination for him. At th
. Just boys in Sholapur. skill and knowledge of the game. Onlyrecently has a ball been provided for the American gameof basket ball. Fortunately the Mission compound isvery large and furnishes fields for a variety of out-doorgames. The boys need greatly gymnastic and athleticapparatus. They do not get enough exercise. They arejust as full of life as can be and are apt to get into mis-chief when they have no proper vent for their energies. The Indian boy likes music just as his father and motherand sisters do. The drum is the chief musical instrument,and it has a true fascination for him. At the time of a£j| kirtan or popular concert, v%^ two youths not more than seven years old have beenJ noticed beating and fingering their chests a la drumming intune with the drum that sup-plied music. There is noth-ing quite so popular in the:000 Boarding Department as the w little hand-organ or harmonica and the two drums, and theboys like nothing better thanto gather about these on aSunday afternoon or evening,14 pnr im-. when they have nothing else to do, and sing by thehour. The Indian boy is not like some American feels ashamed not to sing. You do not have tocoax him to sing in school. On Sundays these boyssing in Sunday School, at their noon Christian Endeavormeetings, and again at the afternoon church service; andthen they hurry through their evening meal in order tosit in the light of a poor oil lamp and sing for two hoursbefore bed-time. Some of the boys have become quite expert musicians ;and two or three times during the year they have prepared,practised and given musical entertainments, the proceedsof which were to go for the benefit of some religious ac-tivity. They not only enjoy music: music is such a part of theirevery day life that it is one of the best avenues for teach-ing them lessons of morality and religion. Their ownsaints instruct themthrough the medium ofsong. Coolies and burden-bearing women can be heardlustily singing tunes as theywalk along the
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