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gsr m vtmmmtmm jjjhgj t ok- r-"s-fi; ' 'STr''''-7 mMM- ).kr fit MY JflDAM A I .A nl T7 i liiKr woArt am -) '- "'V, Jk ' . Ks-.. r "Wf ttnti0L LeA?ff7 V V V V HE Indian' girl la progressing In accordance with tie example set by ner wbite sisters, indeed, it la a question whetner tbe Indian girls are not. In many respects, ad vancing more rapidly than their prototypes among the paletacea. However, It must not be Inferred that the present-day trend of cul ture and education and progress among the Indian girls la a paral lel as to alms and purposes with that which prevails among her lalr- ' complexioned cousins. Quite the contrary, as- a matter of (act. For Instance, It may be cited that, generally apeaklng, the Indian girls of the present give tar lest thought to fashions In dress than do feminine members of the white race. Similarly they are not exercised over suffrage and they do not place such stress op the development of musical accomplishments. But, on the contrary, the twentieth century In dian girls are devoting their energies to a mas tery of cookery and sewing and the other essen tials of successful home-making to which. In the , estimation of some old-fashioned folks, the white girls of the period are giving all too little atten tion. At the same time, many of the red-skin belles are not content to Ignore the social accom- pusnments wnicn are supposed to ennauce mo at tractiveness of jnodern young women. Accord ingly at the Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., and other large Institutions of this kind we Und the ' daughters or the forest crowding the classes In ) music, painting, drawing, dancing, modern ath letlcs, etc., and even behold these descendants of the savages developing marked dramatic ability ' in amateur theatrical entertainments of various kinds, v.'." ;-., Every person is forced to admit of the wisdom and benefits of the "white man's education" for some Indiana. The remarkable life stories of some of the self-made Indians who have, after acquiring the white man's book learning, adopted the white man's mode of life, amply attest the t. tianafivmaMnii In InHlvHri itO I nn flAa There is. however, and perhaps always will be - k iUffnritnce of onlnlon as to the wisdom of at tempting to fix the Anglo-Saxon standards for the entire rising generation of America's native tribes. Oddly enough there seems to be more widespread belief In such a policy for the Indian girls than for the young men of the tepeea. " We say, oddly, because when new conditions have confronted an uncivilised or seml-clvlllxed people It has usually been the men who have ac- - customed themselves to the new order of things - more readily than the women. In the case of most Indian clans, however, . the women have . proven more amenable to the exactions of the new life wherein seems to lie the only salvation - oi me enure luuiau mo. tub imwui been advanced In explanation of this, one of the most plausible being that It has not been as dif ficult for the Indian girl to forego such pleasures , aa she enjoyed in her old life as it has been for the young brave to foresake the excitement of the chase and the care-free nomadic lite and to settle down In a fixed habitation with the Irksome monotony of the wbite man's life. Also, it Is im possible to overlook the Influence exerted by the ' example of the considerable number of Indian women who have married white settlers in Okla homa and other parts of the west.. Even at the outset of her career In the conven tional environment of the age the Indian gtrl has many advantages over her brother who com pletes hla education at the same time. It not in- ' frequently happens that a young man of Indian blood graduates with honors from some Indian school only to find no opportunities awaiting him commensurate with bia afiillty. Small wonder that In some Instances the young men re vert to the ideals and mode of life of their fore fathers. The Indian girl, on the other hand, can be sure that when she finishes a school course' that Includes domestic economy there is a place "MAf3f3 Or Tif fiCHfjr OF awaiting her. She wllf never have any difficulty In obtaining a well-paid position In domestic serv ice, for the instructors at our Indian schools have Wore applications than they can accept from re sponsible families eager to secure competent In dian gfrla as houaeboid helpers. Some of the ap plicants even suggest the pqeslblllty or adopting a young Indian girl If one be found to fulfil ex pectations. Or, If the Indian girl of the present day, upon completing ber education, elect to try tor a live-. Ibood In some one of the artistic pursuits she seems to have advantages over her brother fully as marked aa under the circumstances above men- ' tloned. The Indian brave, in hla native state, does not show aptitude for any form of artistic handicraft unless it be the fashioning of bows and arrows. But the Indian women- have tradi tional skill in bead work, in feather work and In leather work and the Indian women of the south west have for countless generations excelled In pottery manufacture. In rug weaving and in basket manufacture. When an Indian girl la enabled to use such talents in accordance with the knowl edge of modern art Ideals which a school educa- s Hon gives her. H goes without saying that she : has ready to hand a very agreeable and very re munerative means of livelihood. M School teaching la another vocation which opens , to the educated Indian girls a future that Is vir tually closed to the redskins of the sterner sex. There are in the United States a large and con- ' stantly Increasing number or Indian schools, that is, primary grade schools for the education of the younger Indian children on the reservations, and it Is coming about that almost all of the teachers In these schools are Indian young women who have qualified for the work at Carlisle or other schools and by courses in normal schools. Indeed the success of great numbers of these young Indian women school teacbera in. earning their livelihood by brain work while so many of the Indian young men of the period must depend upon manual labor for their earnings emphasises as does nothing else the change that has come about In the status of Indian women, it la, un der such circumstances, a complete reversal of conditions over those that obtained in the long ago when the Indian women were compelled to do all of the hard labor, whereas the men were responsible only for the lighter tasks, or, may--bap, devoted themselves exclusively to warfare and the chane. ;.i'--.v ::-. '" There la little doubt that one explanation of the Buocess which so many twentieth century In dian girls are making In various fields of ei deavor Is found In the heritage ot good beaiu which has come to them from generations of healthful ancestors, and the influence of their own early training and out-door life. Particularly would this explanation account for the splendid constitutions possessed by so many Indian girls and which have stood them in good stead In many exacting vocations, for instance, in nursing. Great numbers of Indian girls have qualified as trained nurses and the services ot moBt of them are In constant demand at $100 a month. The Indian baby, strapped to a board or se curely packed In an elongated basket woven for the purpose, can neither kick nor squirm and this proves an advantage which is far-reaching in Ita effect In later lire. Similarly is there no danger that the child will attempt to walk at an earlier age than is desirable. Krom earliest childhood the average Indian girl has been subjected to that rigorous outdoor lire which, results in making them almost perfect physically. For Instance, there may be cited the method followed In giving an Indian child a bath, a weekly event The mother visits some convenient pool or stream and the young member of the household, after being loosened from her odd cradle. Is placed In shal low water to kick and splash to her heart's con tent. In due course the dripping youngster la lifted from the water and, instead of being ten derly dried with sort linen, is simply bung to the bough of some convenient tree, by means of a cloth tied around the waistand there dries In the air and the sunshine while the mother stands by, looking with approving eyes upon the progress ot this heroic hardening process. In the old days the Indian girls accepted at tender age the traditional lot of Indian women that of pack horse, and It was nothing unusual in the average Indian camp to see wee girls toll ing along with bundles of wood, etc., almost aa large as themselves. This condition yet obtains to a considerable extent, although It is not so universal as formerly. The capacity of the In dian girls for hard work, however, finds dally ex emplification In every walk of life which they have entered. InclHently. It may be mentioned that whatever Influence civilization may exert up on the young woman In whose veins courses In dian blood she never seems to lose t,hat love of ornaments and bright colors which characterizes all children of the wilderness and which the In dian girl will let crop out In her latter-day cos tumes, even though they be fashioned In accord ance with the most conventional modes. Brought Them Together -One Subject for Which Body of Wom en Readily Abandoned Other Tep- lea of Conversation. Elisabeth Jordan, who has Just fin ished a play, the second act of which Is laid In a beauty parlor, was talk ing the other day about women beauty parlors, and conversation. "There are a good many things that good many women are Interested in," she said. "But there la Just one universally appealing topic - "There la one subject ot conversa tion that will draw every woman's at tention. She'll forget everything else in the world to. discuss It. ' "It la the problem Of how to lose weight! "To Illustrate my conviction, I'll tell yott a story. This actually happened: "One day last winter I was at a din ner where there were fifteen or twen ty other women guests. ' When we went to the drawing room after din ner, leaving the men to their cigars. It happened that all the women but myself and one other got Into one cor ner of the room, and I and one fellow guest were left alone. I've forgotten why. but that's the way It was. . -"We were talking of a subject In which we were both Interested, and were were having a beautiful time. But It occurred to the hostess that one or both of us might feel neglected. So she called out, from the other side ol the room: i " 'Why. Hiss Jordan, what are you and Mrs. Blank talking about all by yourselves T " 'Mrs. Blank Is telling me bow aha lost ten pounds,' I railed. - "Well, you ought, to have aeen the center rush! ' Every woman In . the room made a wild dash for us 'The eyes of every woman were all alight with eagerness. Aad from every wom an's throat burst the one Impassion, ed-word: "'Howf" ODD FACTS OF TEMPERANCE Definition Is Moderate Use of Thing' That Are Useful and Total Omis sion of Harmful Ones. One ot the most pointed and effec tive temperance addresses delivered by men of science In the United States was given recently at the Teachers Institute of Delaware county, Ohio, by Prof. Thomas C. lilalsdeil ot Lan sing His definition of temperance is especially striking He aays: "Tern perance is the moderate use ot those things that are helprul, and the totui omission of those things that are harmful." The professor declares that every man should beware ot even the mod eate uae of liquor for five principal reasons: First It threatens the physical structure ol the body. Second It decreases the capacity for work. Third It lowers the mental ability and degenerates the morals. Fourth It greatly lessens the chance tor health and long Hie Filth It causes a man's sins to be visited on his children and his grandchildren. The professor asked this question. Why are the working men who drinK discriminated against by employers? He then proceeded to answer bis own question. He said that alcohol, eveo in moderate quantities, decreases the capacity for muscular and mental work, obliterating part ot tbe field of consciousness, and abolishing a certain collateral train of thought. Ex periments In committing lines from Shakespeare sbows tbat two glasses of beer each day lor two years results In a loss of working capacity ot tbe mind from 25 to 40 per cent, and les sens tbe capacity ot tbe memory to about 70 per cent. In New Orleans, when tbe last cholera epidemic broke out, there were 6.00U cases reported beiore a single man of temperance habits took the disease. In France, In sections where there are no vineyards, there are 'i'i out of every 1,000 who die ot tuberculosis. In tbe sections where tbe vineyards are plentiful, 108 out or every 1,000 die of tuberculosis Ten alcoholic families were taken account of producing 57 children. On ly ten ot tbe number were normal. Ten non-alcoholic families were taken, producing 61 children. Fllty-iour of the number were normal, a proportion of 89 to 17. The entire address of Prof. Blais dell forms a valuable addition to the many pronouncements of science on the alcohol evil. NEW MAYOR ON THE LID "Corrupt and contented" no longer describes the condition of Philadel phia. The new administration of May or Blankenburg la purifying tbe city and vice la already on the run, seek ing cover. Th other Sunday for the first time In 30 years the saloons ot the city were closed and all of Philadelphia from center to circumference was aa dry as a bone. Not only were the sa loons closed, but even the unincorpo rated clubs shut their doors, and the varioua speak-easlea, of which there are more than 1,000 In the city, were In the main as quiet as a graveyard. The few that opened were promptly raided. Tbe doom ot the speak-easlea has ben sounded In Philadelphia, for not only la the administration opposed to their existence", but the brewers and licensed saloonkeepers are also, mak ing war on them and soon their namea will be only a memory. Put the reform administration of Mayor Blankenburg has gone further, and disreputable resorts of all kinds are under the ban. Fully 600 of these vile dens have already closed their doors and their proprietor are looking for quarters In other cities. The gambling Joints also have put up their ahutters, and the man has to be well posted to find a place where he can buck the tiger. The closing of saloons, however, on Sunday has given offense to a Iarg German element, which consider the use of beer aa much a right on Sunday as upon week days, and they feel particularly displeased because It Is a Ger man who Is depriving them of what they consider their rights. But th mayor's position has been taken, and irom now until the end of his adminis tration It Is his determination to make Philadelphia one of the best governed cltlea In the land and one of the cleanest morally. FRENCH CHIEF WITH TAFT WHY. SOME MEN SEE DOUBLE Muscles of the Eyeballs of Drunkard Are Temporarily Paralyzed, 8ays a Scientific Writer. A scientific' writer has given bis pinlon why drunken men see double. In the first place it is essential tbat tbe "elevated" party must have two good eyes. No amount of liquor would make a oneeyed man see two halt dollars where only one exists. When we wish to see distinctly we adjust the eyes by converging them more or less so tbat the Image tails upon the sensitive point of tbe retina. If the object is too far off to enable us to get a distinct image in either eye tbe eyes are so constructed that they can tiring the object nearer, or we can, by contracting the eye mus cles, bring the retina nearer tbe lens, thus getting a clear sight of tbe object. Both eyes may be moved either upward or downward or to the right or to the left, but It la Impossible to direct one of them upward and tbe other downward. If we converge the eyes so that the two images tall on the sensitive point or the correspond ing retinas we get in tbe brain a sharp image. It, however, from any cause we are not able to move tbe eyeballs so as to have this Image fall squarely on the retina we see double This seeing double can be caused by temporary or permanent paralysis of the muscles of the eyeballs. 'or permanent paralysis there may be any one of several causes. Excessive use ot alcohol or tobacco will produce temporary paralysis. Under the In fluence of strong drink the controlling muscles of the eye, like others ot the body, are not under command, hence some drunken men stammer in their speech, others stagger In their walk and others see double. WILBUR WRIGHT ON ALCOHOL Does Not Use It Himself and Believes That Other People Could Dispense With Its Use. Another testimony added to the many given in favor of temperance by the world's efficient men, cornea trom Wilbur Wright, the aviator, who, for his wonderful success In aerial navigation, has - been called "Tbe King of the Air." The editor of L'Etoile Bleu, as anti-alcohol paper published In Paris, recently asked the great air navigator to state bis atti tude towards alcoholic drinks. Be cause a man has need of all his self- control and of all his mental clear ness in the management of such a complicated machine as an airship, the editor was curious to know what he drank. The following statement forwarded In reply by Mr. Wright, shows his uncompromising attitude to ward the use ot alcohol: "in answer to your letter ot the 11th, It Is true that I never make uae of alcohol, be cause I believe that it can do me no good, and I believe that moat people would find themselves better off it they did not take It," , "It Is to be noted," says the Parisian editor, In reporting this .Incident, "that, according to American usage, Mr. Wright means by alcohol' all al coholic drlnka, distilled, liquors, wine and beer. He has many times refused gifts ot Bordeaux wln from the pro orletors ot French vlneyarda." President Taft'a efforts to aecure the ratification of arbitration treatiea with France and Great Britain waa the spe cial theme of an official speech made recently by President Fallleres at the New Year's reception to the diplomat ic corps at the Elysee palace In Paris. There waa a large attendance of dip lomats at the function, among them being Robert Bacon, the American ambassador Sir Francis U Bertie, the British ambassador and dean of the diplomat ic corps, presented to the French ex ecutive the New Year felicitations of the foreign representatives. He de clared that he and the other members of tbe corps felt certain tbat France would continue to be a powerful aid in every work having In view the progress of civilization. He added thai this permitted the hope that the gen erous initiative ot the president of the United States In favor of the exten sion of arbitration to international questions would be productive of larger 'results during the coming year. "The countries we represent," continued Sir Francis, "know tbat they are sure to find In France a powerful auxiliary with which to obtain these results." . Responding, President Fallleres assured the diplomats that France would labor In behalf of progress. France, he said, already could with . modesty claim her part In the initiatives that have been taken and from which civili zation is reaping benefita. "Like you, Mr. Ambassador," tbe President continued, "we congratulate ourselves that we have seen during the past year the president ot the United States give bia precious adhesion to the principle of arbitration. - It may .be repeated that the application of this principle will determine for men and things a decisive method for the pacific solution ot international differences." IS HEAD OF POSTAL BANKS Theodore L. Weed, chief clerk of the postoffice department and Postmaster General Hitchcock's principal execu tive assistant In the management of the department, has been appointed director of the postal savings system at $5,000 a year. He will assume hla duties Immediately. - The extraordinary development of the postal savings system caused Mr Hitchcock to organize a speclrl bureau to take up the work. Mr. Weed was appointed to the gov ernment service from Connecticut In 1898. . ,. Mr. Hitchcock predicts that before) tbe end of the current fiscal year the postal savings deposits will exceed $50,000,000 and that the system not only will be self-sustaining but a source of profit to the government Already the deposits have reached a total In excess of $15,000,000. Of the four Important offices that opened for business August 1 last, Chi cago on November 30, the date of the last available statistics, led with depos its of $577,842, New York being second with $411,769. Boston third with $16. 464 and St. Louis fourth with $119,606. Preparations now are being made to establish postal banka in about 40,000 fourth-class postofnees that do a money-order business. GOVERNOR ENGAGED TO MARRY Robert Perkins Bass, governor of Hampshire, Is engaged to be married to Miss Edith Bird, daughter of Charles S. Bird of East Walpole, and a granddaughter of the late Francis W. Bird. She Is well known In the Norfolk Hunt club and for her exploits In the hunting field. For the last two or three years she has made ber home In New York. She is a brilliant con versationalist and a young woman of striking personality. , Mr. Bass is the first public primary governor of New HampsDlre. He was nominated In 1910 over Bertram Ellis of Keene In a state-wide primary in which the old organization supported Ellis and the so-called Progressives, who had grown up around the Win ston Churchill candidacy, voted for Bass. He was elected In November, 1910. He was one of the speakers at the recent meeting of Progressive Re publicans In Tremont Temple, In Bos-- ton, with George I Record of New .;- . . Jersey and Glfford Plnchot of New York. It Is understood that Governor Bass is likely to represent the east aa the vice-presidential nominee on the ticket In the event the Progressives control the next Republican convention. Mr. Bass has long been Interested In forestry and is president of the New Hampshire Forestry association. ' Through hia efforts In no small part la due the acquisition by the state of the Crawford Notch.' He is a brother of John Foster Bass, tbe celebrated war correspondent. Robert P. Bass was born In Chicago September 1, 1873; graduated trom Harvard In the class of 1896, nd from the Harvard law school two years later. His home la at Peter oro. N. H. - :!; : ; V"' - --"V--;-..- -"l ';i.t. 8trange. ' Mrs. Hlghup How was the charity allT Mrs. Blase All right, but It's a wonder they made anything when you sonalder the small amount they apent M ft. Their expenses were actually M than their receipts. Puck. Aai-Md mt Last. "" ' , ' "I wish 1 were : an -ostrich," said Hicks angrily, as he tried to eat one of his wife's biscuits, . and couldn't. "I wish you were," returned Hlcka. "I'd get a few feathers I - hat" ,
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