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VOL. 28. NO.4.
HE Indian girl is progressing in
accordance with the example set
by her white sisters. Indeed, it Is
a question whether the Indian girls
are not, in many respects, ad
vancing more rapidly than their
prototypes among the palefaces
However, it must not be inferred
that the present-day trend of cul
ture and education and progress
among the Indian girls is a paral
lel as to aims and purposes with
that which prevails among her air
complexioned cousins. Quite the
contrary, as a matter of fact. For instance, it
may be cited that, generally speaking, the Indian
girls of the present give far less thought to
fashions in dress than do teminine members ol
the white race. Similarly they are not exercised
over suffrage and they do not place such stress
on 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 succebsful home making to which, in the
estimation of some old-fashioned iolks, the white
giils of the period are giving all too little atten
tion At the same time, many of the red-skm
belles are not content to ignore the social accom
plishnients which are supposed to enhance the at
tractiveness of modern young women. Accord
ingly at the Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., and
other large Institutions of this kind we find the
daughters of the torest crowding the classes In
music, painting, drawing, dancing, modern ath
letics, etc, and even behold these descendants of
the savages developing marked dramatic ability
In amateur theatrical entertainments of various
kinds
Every person is forced to admit of the wisdom
and benefits of the "white man's education" for
some Indians. 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
success of the transformation in individual cases
There is, however, and perhaps always will be
a difference of opinion 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 tepees.
We say, oddly, because when new conditions
have confronted an uncivilized or semi-civilized
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 ot
most Indian clans, however, the women have
proven more amenable to the exactions of the
new life wherein seems to lie the only salvation
of the entire Indian life. Various reasons have
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
as 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 life and to
settle down in a fixed habitation with the irksome
monotony of the white 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 girl has
many advantages over her brother who com
pletes his 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 his ability. 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
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awaiting her. She will never have any difficulty
in obtaining a well-paid position in domestic serv
ice, for the instructors at our Indian schools have
more applications than they can accept from re
sponsible families eager to secure competent In
dian girls as household helpers. Some ot the ap
plicants even suggest the possibility of adopting
a young Indian girl If one be tound to fulfil ex
pectations.
Or, if the Indian girl of the present day, upon
completing her education, elect to try for a live
lhood in some one of the artistic pursuits she
seems to have advantages over her brother fully
as marked as under the circumstances above men
tioned. The Indian brave, in his native state,
does not show aptitude tor any form of artistic
handicraft unless it be the fashioning ot bows
and arrows. But the Indian women have tradi
tional skill in bead work, in feather work and
leather work and the Indian women of the south
west have tor countless generations excelled in
pottery manufacture, in rug weaving and in basket
manufacture. When an Indian girl is enabled to
use such talents in accordance with the knowl
edge of modern art Ideals which a school educa
tion gives her, it goes without saying that she
has ready to hand a very agreeable and very re
munerative means of livelihood.
School teaching is 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 of 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 teachers 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 emphasizes
as does nothing else the change that has come
about in the status of Indian women. It is, 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
hap, devoted themselves exclusively to warfare
and the chase.
There is little doubt that one explanation of
the success which so many twentieth century In-
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dian girls are making various fields of en
deavor is found in the heritage of good health
which has come to them from generations of
healthful ancestors, and the influence of their
own early training and out-door lite. 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 of most 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 tar-reaching in its
effect in later life. Similarly is there no danger
that the child will attempt to walk at an earlier
age than is desirable. From earliest childhood
the average Indian girl has been subjected to that
rigorous outdoor life 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 is
lifted from the water and, instead of being ten
derly dried with soft linen, Is simply hung to the
bough of some convenient tree, by means of a
cloth tied around the waist, and there dries in the
air and the sunshine while the mother stands by,
looking with approving eyes upon the progress of
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 unusuai
in the average Indian camp to see wee girls toll
ing along with bundles of wood,I etc.. almost as
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 daily ex
emplification in every walk of life which they
have entered. Ineldentry, 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 that 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.
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QUEENLOUISELOVED
She .Was Never Bitter in Grief
Over Roverses.
A Century After Her Death Her Tomb
at Potsdam Was Covered With
Fragrant Flowers by
Loving Hands.
Berlin.Sentiment is an important
part ot the German tempeiament and
Germans are not ashamed to show it.
That may help to explain why, more
than a century alter her death, the
memory ot Queen LouiFe ot Prussia is
ept fragrant and living by constant
gitts ot flowers placed upon her tomb
at Potsdam. But that characteristic
oi the Germans does not serve wholly
to explain the flowers that are kept
always iresh. Other German kings
and queens have died and been tor
gotten almost before the official court
mourning ceased. It must indeed
have been a very rare and charming
personality that made its owner so
loved by her subjects that they pre
served a tender, reverent memory of
her in their hearts and handed down
that memory to their children and
their children's children.
Queen Louise was more than a
ruler's witeshe was a charming,
brave, womanly woman and, more
over, she was beautiful. Although a
princess of Mecklenburg, she was
brought up with much less ot formal
ity and more ot home life than is con
tained in the curriculum ot a large
number of American debutantes to
day.
The Princess Louise at sixteen was
good to look upon. She was tall and
slender, her eyes deep blue and her
hair brown, with glints of sunlight
in it. Her skin was clear and trans
parent and her exquisite coloring did
not need the aid of rouge pot or pow
der. And ihen there came into her
life her Piince Charming. He wa3
Queen Louise.
To Use Motor Field Guns.
Detroit, Mich.The government of
Guatemala has ordered from a motor
car company of this city through its
New York agency, three motor cars to
be equipped with machine guns and
wireless apparatus for use in war. The
cars will be the standard 1912 chassis,
with a pony tonneau body.
The armament win be Colt rapid fire
guns with a capacity of 600 shots a
minute. They will be mounted in
front of the driver's seat. The wire
less will have a 35-foot mast. It will
be operated with the regular dynamo
used for lighting and starting and
will be good for communication at a
distance of 50 miles. Each car will
have a balloon to fake the wireless rig
higher, when necessary, and thud in
crease its efficiency. The cars, equip
ped, will cost in tb* neighborhood Of
H.000 each.
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DATE GROWING IN TEXAS
Federal Government Aiding Develop*
ment of Fruit in Southern Part
of Lone Star State.
Fort Brown, Tex.The federal gov
ernment is lending valuable assist
ance to the development of the date
growing industry in South Texas In
the government plant testing gardens
at Fort Brown are a number of va
rieties of date palms which are said
to be doing as well as the coun
tries where these fruit bearing trees
are native.
There are already many rroducing
date palms in the lower border re
gion of Texas, but it was not until
the last few years that steps began to
be taken to placo the industry on a
Texas Date Tree.
Frederick William, son of the king ol
Piussia and heir to the throne of
that country.
In 1793, when the Princess Louise
was only seventeen years old, she was
married to the crown prince.
It was in a troubled time that New York.It took Lincoln Steffens
Louise had come to be the wite of the a long time to find out what he was
future king ot Prussia. The French good for. He spent his youth in Cali-
revolution had already broken out and fornia hunting and having a good time
the propagandists of France were generally He was graduated from
sending out armies ot conquest into the University of California and then
Europe to spread the doctrines of lib- he went to Europe, where he studied
erty, equality and fraternity
Prussia, temporized and delayed,
made an alliance with France, dis
carded it, and finally joined the ene
mies of Napoleon.
The queen spent much of her time
with her husband in camp and her
courage in that time of national cala
mity had made her doubly dear to the
soldiers. It is said that it was her
advice that led Frederick to make war
on France. It Is certain that she
hated Napoleon most cordially then,
and he seems to have returned the
compliment But when the country
had been overwhelmed by the French
the king believed that Louise might
be able to induce the French emperor
to grant easier terms to Prussia than
he was at first inclined to. With that
end In view Queen Louise consented?
to an interview with Napoleon at Til
sit. The French emperor's estimate
of Prussia's queen was altered by that
interview, but his intentions regard
ing her country were inexorable.
Soon after that interview Napoleon
overwhelmed Austria and Prussia's
last forlorn hope of rescue was gone.
But Queen Louise was not bitter in
her grief and disappointment.
MAN WHO SUGGESTED PEACE
Was Long Time Finding Out What He
Was Good For, But Finally
Landed High.
in the Universities of Heidelberg,
Leipzig, Berlin and the Sorbonne He
topped that study off by marrying a
fellow tstudent at Sorbonne and going
to London, where he spent much time
In research work in the British mu
seum. Then he considered himself
ready to enter the field of letters. He
Lincoln 8teffens.
was made editor of McClure's after
several years of newspaper work.
One day Mr. McClure, just back
from abroad, entered Steffens' office
and said without preamble: "Stef
fens, you're getting out a rotten mag
azine. You. don't know anything
about the country. Don't you realize
you are living in the United States?
Go out and see something*"
Steffens did. He had imagination
and enthusiasm and had at last be
come limbered up mentally after his
long years of academic study. He
had ^energy and an unlimited supply
of questions. The result of that trip
was "The Shame of the Cities," a se
ries of exposures of municipal graft
that made him famous.
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KIN W CHEN
Spanish Monarch Acts Like Or
dinary Man Occasionally.
When on Vacations at His Summer
Residence Alfonso Talks, Walks,
Rides and Mingles Generally
With the People.
San Sebastian, Spam.At this
beautiful northern coast resort of
Spain King Alfonso 'XIII enjoys lite
his boyish, tree iashion. Imagine
a great round bay so locked in that
its waters are a pond. High around
its edges circle the villas ot the rich,
while along the sandy shore the Royal
Yacht club and bath houses adjoin
puvate beaches next to the gieat
hotels and the public promenade.
-Along the sands the public bath
houses and gay tents flash all colors,
1 airly soaked sunlight, even late
1
commercial basis. As a result of th6
success that has been attained at
the Fort Brown reservation in glow
ing the palms many people of this
section have planted laige groves of
the trees and some of them have al
ready come into bearing. A coopei
ative date farm, conducted by the
United States department of agricul
tuie, was also established near
Laredo, Tex., a few years ago. Four
acres of the palms have been planted
and a large part of them are in bear
ing The yield of some of the trees
is enormous, often amounting to as
much as 500 pounds of the delicious
fruit.
One of the requirements of success
ful date growing is an abundance of
water and plenty of sunshine. There
must also be a minimum of cold
weather. Rich soil is, of course, nec
essary. All of these elements are
found in the region. Some of the
seeding date palms on the ranches
and farms of this section have been
producing abundant crops of fruit for
many years, but it was not until the
government took hold of the matter
and began to demonstrate the possi
bilities of the industry from a com
mercial standpoint that it was taken
hold of on a scale commensurate with
the profitable returns that it prom
ises to bring the growers.
autumn. The stone promenade, bor
dered by shade tiees and iorged iron
balustiades, continues round the bay,
through gorgeous paiks and gardens
to the public gambling halls, -with the
marble terraces and iioweis, restau
rants and cates of one ot the most
luxunous casinos of Em ope. Back of
all this is the modem built town of
wide, shady streets, parks and monu
ments in bionze and maible, lich
shops, cafe terraces and flaunting awn
ings, stieet sprinklers, gushing loun
tains and that mixed perlume ol or
ange peel, violets and tuberoses that
marks the south of Europe
Chief ot the villas perched high
around the bay is the king's Miramar
palace, halt hidden among its lorests
At night any traveler can lose him
self in its winding alleys, lighted by
900 electric lamps. Anjone who has
been there must have thought how
'easy It would be lor armed conspira
tors to enter the park and take the
palace by surprise. The guard at the
gate is composed of three men of the
Minarets corps. At the wide door ol
King Alfonso.
the palace the only sentry is an old
veteran, wearing many decorations,
but unarmed. The idea generally held
that the king of Spam lives surround
ed by an army to protect his lite is
absurd. The "Alabarderos"mounted
escortand the large military staff is
regularly invisible in its barracks be
hind the palace and e\ists merely to
satisfy court protocol. When the royal
family enjoys its home lite in the
evenings atter audience hours are
over, it is no more protected than any
other well-to-do family of San Sebas
tian.
Every day while in residence at
San Sebastian, the king, unaccom'
pamed by soldiers, on loot, on horse
back, or in auto or carriage, can be
seen going about. We met him once
in a lone spot of the Cormche, writes
a traveler, attempting to clean three
plugs that had got choked by soot.
My French friends stopped and askea
the customary, "Anything we can do?"
"These plugs are choked with soot,"
replied Alfonso. His chauffeur was
respectfully offering new ones, when
our French frienda pure automobile
crank like the kingexplained that he
could clean those plugs by backing
rapidly up the slope.
'That Is what I said," cried Alfonso.
'Oust! tumble in!" and, with a very
tricky swing, he got his weight on the
crank and started the heavy motor
before his chauffeur knew what he
was up to, jumped in beside his only
companion, a silent military man, an*
began backing up the slope at second
speed.
"Now that is just the type of auto
mobile crank who will not let his
chauffeur do a thing,' expained the
Frenchman. From this time Alfonso
nodded to us with a smile, content
that here were three men and a lady
who had seen him, Alfonso, acting as
man.
Pool Ball In His Mouth.
Philadelphia. Robert Wilson, a
youth living at 1330 North Eighth
street, made a bet with several com
panions that he had the largest mouth
in the crowd, and to prove his asser
tion thrust a pool ball between his
laws.
He won the wager, but lost several
teeth, for the ivory ball fitted his
mouth so well that it took two hours'
work on the part of physicians at the
Children's Homeopathic hospital to re
move the ball, and that was accom
plished only after the forceps had
been used.
Wilson walked to the hospital with
his friends. The physicians first told
him to force the ball out with his
tongue. His efforts were unavailing
and the pain from his distended jaws
so great that it was determined to
sacrifice five front teeth.