university for orphan children and those without a name, and from it all
the departments of the government are supplied with secretaries, clerks,
typewriters and messengers, and as they are physically, mentally and
morally trained for the duties of life, they are highly prized in the
matrimonial market. All our common schools have a gymnasium and swimming
tank annexed to the study room; the gymnasium being divided into two
compartments, one for boys and one for girls, with a door from each
communicating with the study room and also with the swimming tank." The
tank was only four feet deep so as to remove as much as possible the
chance for a child being drowned, and no little children were allowed
in the tank without two or more boys and girls of fourteen years of age
being present.

The doors leading into the tank room were kept under lock and key and
were only opened once a day and that at the noon hour. The youngest
children, up to the age of twelve years, when they had learned their
lessons both in the forenoon and afternoon went into the gymnasium to
play, and by those means the children are physically well developed and
knowing how to swim are not liable to become frightened if thrown into
the water and know what to do to save others from drowning. They are
taught reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, typewriting, typesetting
and practical geometry, so as to draw lines, angles and circles and find
their volumes and areas, but algebra, astronomy, grammar, geology,
physiology, biology and metaphysics are reserved for the high schools,
where every boy and girl is sent when they are fifteen years of age and
kept there for three years at the expense of the government. The high
school is located in the district reserve as near the center of the
district as conditions will permit in the vicinity of the court house
and the Governor's residence and has adjoining it not less than one
thousand acres, according to the population of the district, so as to