Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1927, Page 45

T HE'RUNDAY STAR!' WASHINGTON,' D.’ The Santa Claus of Laurel Forks By Rowena Anne Halbert Uncle Ebe Had No Regular Money, but a Mine of Wealth Was in His Heart and He Tried to Coin Some of It Into Sil LL thinzs come to Cox Coun: in their season. Oncg a_yean peace comes. It fe at Christ mas Then Kentucky hill pen Dl un hands holding them to a ha to step up inte their own. Amity comforts the hearis searred by the bawling passions of the vear. Peovle rest. Tt vot that Sheriff Corns falls short cf duty that the little il in back of thel courthonse in Thomas is empty during this season. Moonshine, which usmally flls it is drunk—plenty of it—but for the courage to he friendly with en emics, net for the strength to fight and, perhaps, kill them. | Cox County children can be for given. if they smear this seasonable saintliness with selfinterest. Chri mas at home is ton often an excuse for buying necessities, while to the Laurel Forks Baptist Church Sunda school on Christmas Eve there comes a Santa Claus who presents toys, candy, popcorn on strings and some times apples to all the good little boys and girls. Children accepted the Christmas Eve antics of this old man like a parent tolerates the mischievousness of fts offspring. It had to be. But Cox County children suffer 100 many grim | realitibs to believe long in the magic. | He couldn't fool them! Sometimes they accepted his gifts and said:| “Trank ye. Uncle Ebel” but because he was deaf he went on, season after | season, stripped of any unhappiness | bitter knowledze can bring. Why couldn’t he fool them? they knew that crooked leg that had man walked. ... They he which was =a straggly they eould al. most eount the wiry, white hairs in it. | Seed N e they knew the bulging jaw of Punkea | dreatagof ckaboy Uncle Ebe wi hut one of SOy the oneroomed cabin standing up Salt Lick Creek where low came down to the soft, b tomiand -and _the road soparated make Laurel Forks. hollow,” U'ncle Ehe’ and treacheron tales of explorer it but never returned. Ebe had traversed it upon vounds dreadful O Uncle Ehe! Hiz home ding many ghost B he use U'nele it afraid of the mysterious. “ON A THRONE OF HARD SHOUL. DERS. THEY CARRIED THE OLD MAN." On the knob beside hix ¢ re From this he derived enough to the mack He was very much alone His small And what §s more, and greater proof.|gray eyes had still a touch of toe | ye only a xon of Cox.|call him to preack wis | hoped some earthly” volce would. | no one At times his daily would be missed and interested people | wonld go up the eveek to his o wn bot- [ It was a strange | looking for him would appear ¢ his smiling countenance rev vard, deep who ventured into was looked | < heing part of the mystery sur- | the null ¢ ‘ox County people are bin he till- | ed on hands and knees the short s Ob. | of bottomland which belonged to no @ one. a way of swinging out when the old|pay for his meager wants and huy new the heard | zifts which filled his Christmas every year. for he was a devout porson. ing only Unele h d S h 2 s youth fa them. F vs he bad waited fo: the Lord he But which meant trips to Thomas No sign. Then he 2l half a secret, enough to e cite those who xaw him. e would quiry impatientl, Uncle Fhe? ut looking for v ve away the in Kent 1 hev no pri- Had Hain't my doin's all my own?" | hore they be, but yore gittin' on ome day yvew won't be ashowin’ up [and weuns'll go up an' dig a zra fer ye. 'Sides, all the youngens tear. in ind here like time fer ye." Upon hearing that he would go in !search of the children. * ok ok ok | TN Laur Wi Hollow Unele Ebe had dis- | d a hed of soft, white metal, Wlthough he wax no metallur: it looked to him like the stuff | coine were made of. Coing, The kind | | which paid him for his xeanty crop and bought the toys every year. Ama- |teurishly he gathered samples and slyly | ventured into Thomas to seek Informa- tion about the ore. It was not safa to {divulge his secret to a native, so he chose a traveling man, knowing that even If he had the heart he would not the time to betray him Uncle Ebe followed the generously given instructions and sent samples awny 1o be assayed Soon a very in. terested stranger came to Thomas yseciing Ebenezer Jonathan Mackeboy. the mun who nad discovered siiver in Cox. The news swelled the town Into ';\ turmoil of citement. A body of citizens escorted the stranger to Uncle i Ebe's cabin, | Laurel Hollow to see the waste. lup.” just as it had eves | He carried the ¢ ver Dollars for the Kiddies’ Christmas :.Run Fiction. such luek—1uck that founded a new re. speet for Uncle Ebe. But the expert's opinion, after spending many days up the hollow, turned this resnact to quiet laughter on the old man. The ore was not_in large enough quantities, was too impure to mine successfully, There were, he_said, some lean samples vielding 70 per tent, but not enough to pay. The light In Uncle Fbe' not die when the stranger left. He etired to tilling his knob, dreaming meanwhile of silver, the kind from which coins were made. When the rows of seed had all been carefully covered over by hand he raised his body proudly to view his work, to look beyond to the Christmas the little patch would bring to Laurel Folks, A pecullar stiffness in his joints stopped him when only half erect as he could stand—forehodings of a “‘quar se son.” He trembled.” His nervous eyes went up to the northeast sky ques- tionablys Tt was thick black. Uncle be sought solace, help in prayer. Tt was not for himself that he asked 1 to keep backwaters out of Salt Lick. Surely He knew that there were children, always children, to think of on the hirthday of his Son. Uncle Ehe's God, if he heard him, ald not stay the clements. They bat. tled high above and way heyond the hills of Cox and swiftly the refuse of tha heavens came sweeping down a black and mad Ohio River, crowding into the small streams, which emptied into it, it angry overflow, dread back- waters. 1'p Salt Lick Creek they rushed, rising, rising, and no force, no means to turn them bhack until they covered Uncle Ebe's tilled acre. There they staved to wait for the owner of their mother river to be dimmed: until she called for them to return to her, Tha flood sent Uncle Ebe up Laurel e, He went with tears and stinging in his heart, The backwaters did subside—sneaked down the creck like thieves, taking thel loot along. leaving the hottom land a naked, plundered strip of muddy earth. Unele Ebe did not come out_of He eyes did stayed hidden, indignantly injured. * X ¥ % 'OX became accustomed to missing him. The children gave up in despair. Laurel Hollow had “et him ¢ other fool who went Into it. Hadn't he moved his board-and-pex cahin up there with all the “fixin’s"? _Of course he would never come out. Who wanted to xhare his fate by following him? They dis. cussed him 5o until the end of Autumn and then one day he appeared, like a ghost, to startle them. He ‘was a little older, graver, and more bent that day in early December | proudly. It throbbed against his deaf- | when he came to Thomas, but he swung his crooked leg out in the same important manner. Children looked on curiously and silently retreated, afraid. istmas sack, knot- ted in the middle, something weighting the bottom of it. Questions, hundreds, were hurled by the inquisitive who | followed him, but Uncle Ebe had not learned a new way of answering those | who_displeased him. “Kent 1 hev no piracy? doin’s all my own After his usual manner he went to Pugh's store and gave part of hix Covstinas order. A lictio timidly and iclously Jamie adaed the bill and its total. Uncle Kbe had baen a little more extravagant and gen erous this year, did he know it? But Haint my '0. DECEMBER ' 25. 1927--PART' ‘5. - V2% “HF. CAME 'TODDLING ON THE PLATFORM, HIS LOSTUME. NOW BIT TOO LARGE FOR HIM-—" carelossly, opened hiz sack and count ed out the silver dollars which would &0 to pay his bill and leave some be. hind they “Why, Uncle Ebe! Whar in time'd vye git 'em? All new and bright!™ “Don’ wor-rie 'hout whar I got 'em, thar's plenty more! They are all right, 100, o'ny not made whar other money is! ' Git my things ready so's I ken tote ‘em home by evenun! * k% x PBACE. The Christmas season once again, bringing its cold, bleak Christmas Fve, Children coated and muffed, crowding into the small church at Laurel Forks; even grown- ups this time, anxiously awaiting the Santa Claus of Laurel Forks. Hard, {1y, unkept pledge. Impatient heads | howed while Preacher Helm prays for | their souls. And then the excitement of quieting down for Santa Claus, He | Who Had Never Failed! | dling on the platform, his costume now A bit too large for him, dragging a | sack o laden it pulled his arm down {and interfered with his crooked leg. It was a reception any man would live |for. Uncle Ebe reddened modestly but ness—his heart. The children formed a line to march by the platform, shake Santa’'s hand and receive his gifts. The hand of line and given it the sign to go for- | ward when the ehurch door opened nd a tall man, foreigner to Cox. wthoritatively wa'ked up the ai up his hand in a way that he meant to stop ater pu A hush—the sor Cox. “I'm looking for Ebenezer Jonathan 2 They told me in Thomas « here.” The voice wus so loud Uncle Ebe heard it. Al eyes cause in | see them. He was measuring the trag- They had heard of just | the old man waved away the warning | edy to come if the children discovered | derstand. chapped little hands lifted for the vear- | He came tod- | | Preacher Helm had straightened this| festivities | Z A | | his identity. He did not know they | knew, | “Is he here?" | A a ilence filled the room. v shifted to Preacher Helm. Children in Cox have a way of know- . ing when trouble is near. | “Ax a Federal officer I demand to | know if Ehenezer Jonathan Mackaboy is here | | The eyes which made Preacher Helm the spokesman also kept him | from Iving. He pointed unwillingly to Uncle Ebe, who stood up at the | sizn and tremulously satd: “Yes, sir. |1 he Ebenezer Jonathan Mackaboy! “Well, you come with me. You are | anted on a Federal charg: | what?" demanded Preacher | Helm. | | _“On the charge of counterfeiting | Government money. The fake dollars | he’s been putting ‘in circulation.” Uncle Ebe heard that, too, and nerv- | ously stepped down from the platform. | | He turned the officer around so his | back faced the line of children. “Now, | 1 hain't make no fuss to stay, but | kent I stay hyur till I make the | youngens’ Christmas?" The officer did not respect Uncle | Ebe’s confidential tone. He pushed him from the church with a hand | | clutching the soiled eotton, imitating white fur, costume collar. k% % | GHERIFF CORNS opencd up the | jail to receive the prisoner. ! Opened it reluctantly as he cursed the | man who made him do it. Uncle Ebe | was the first Yuletide guest it had had for so long Cox Countians termed it ‘never.” Kentuecky men, in Cox at least, .| are phlesmatic, even in trouble, but | the fate of Uncle Ebe that Christmas eve quickened the anger which is usually slow in coming. They stormed | down upon the little jail with hot| bload and high words to demand the 1 isoner’s freedom. Sheriff Corns | knew better than to fesist that angry | | mob. He gave them Uncle Ebe while | with phases of law he could not un- | On ’ ‘throne of hard| Nunivak, Mysterious BY JAMES NEVIN MILLER. | NIKDUK! ANIKBL A ver-| table fyenzy enveloped all hu- | man and canine creatures on | the isie. Dogs barked. Chil- dren screeched. All hastened to the erude dock. For a boat was| arriving. No doubt with white men aboard—bhearing new trinkets from the fascinating outside world so far away. Such was the greeting on a clam. my, cloudy day jast Summer that was sccorded Henry B. Colling, ir.. and T. Dale Btewar: of the Division of Ethnology, Emithsonian Institution, as they arrived on strange Nunivak Is ! Jand, aboard the Aluska Bureau of Fducation hoat. the Hoxer, Pioneers in a genuine sense they were, for their purpose was to begin sclentific hix tory there. ¥ar from the haunts of the white man Is Nunivak. One hundred and fifty miles south of the mouth of mighty Yuken: not so far from Cape Romanzef, one of the most exposed places 10 wind and tide in the treach erous Bering: with a coust more rock bound than that of vur own New Eng Jand; with waterways unchgried and so shallow throughout as to ma steamer n: jon a liferisking tempt at best. white man had ra Yy trod her shores. No wonder tiat science, with #1) its vaunted trappings, had never before veniured into i nysterious recesses. “Tiny is Nunivak Bbout 45 10 50 miles wide and perhap 76 miles with @ population somewhat short of 00 xouls, Never theless it in the w st inland in the Bering the big wteamers from Keuttle thers | with safety, they wouid not, mercially speaking, tre isle speck on the vast northern lsndscag Fovery reputable map of the wor bears the location dot of Nuni And yet, when vou weck itx name in| Yawime lterature, nowhere 1o he found, ¥oven the encyclopedian, welf styied purvesors of all manner of jim portant facts, give it but 4 line or s irne wuen Gescrives 3 ax “timbered in the sheltered cover v e thiere » no Himber st all unless e | o3 Lnber 8 1w Berubby willows shoit five feet high Al of which illustra of general B Epecific ko ledge nrding general conditions 1hers Neine, therefore, tie ent the two ploncers in e pes foOU S8 the first tim Nunivak { “aphe BHEDOWN quaniity in S entture” hin een i an Tropological the bap Jazard Aata availubic ) been sun as o indicats the Bmith Yopian, which siwsye bis " Yo penstrate tre farihest Hung roys of the earth. thist here wis a worthy of #tudy Vhereupon st | Kommer's expedition was formed umder the combined suspices of 1he Sthaonian, he Amerian Associa Tiom for the Advancement of Scien-e wnd the American Council of Lesined Soriets ';:n. Jark Loud: e the 1iyeer was his pletire ive son, 8 Nunivaker S erne of he Blo1y Lime, B striphng yuars dueller i the villawe 4f eark ':lh'»n, (0 the segn of Acakkookls he ABtninn Aud § tremble, | 1 porihern wind §hat wtrikee me pitilessiy in it might o o i wsbasm of | he on curivns | tith st 1o greut Wit ae sul o W orcamined for a nn 10 it The ver) akkookls In his ” comer blowing | nible t 1he hatsh | The Ve [N b b NUNIVAK HONEYMOONERS, While the [ my k Auturn comes hlowing Al 3 tremble, | tremble, storm wnd the mes nd e down 1o e o The depths of the w Parely | see the waley waves cast me nb) And | wemble, 1 tre of the hour When the gulls shal) huck at my desd body” vem threaten up Jest " niny soze in at thought Pai anmit thin worthy mesters, 1he whivism Bnd ww elements you'll and er fine, for o younghing With Auent spontineit wurely of tad huw enught ot the venseluped feur ctesistie of hiw i r s vhiis P LA exaguerated the stormi i imle, We have the American welentisty 1o uth of that, Becaune the 1o the fuyaway Novih Jand. the scientisis bad their shure wnd more of the cyuel blasts that lash s of word of the s for (he Yankee | | of | pny the fare ninst Quickly we i i mashen un with threaten at ull t the fury wnd ak u vessel ving Houn cunhiell ntlesy w o b rock e gl of e b MHowey thelr po winfe und wound the Amerlcans veiched ekily e Ing able to wecure the services of the [ au of Education hont which con veyw supplies (o the American schools n the reglon Only 1t tution to Nunivak ar in throngh o tradey fves on hears () mereinl i wome 8 Triyel pith e well known Lol of A ocenslonnlly Tinik w 1o hears other means of tanspor uvallahle, One Paul Ivanoff. wha and who rightly e of univak's com veler," for he now uwnd supplies from Nome " y The other the steamers of n Prading Com The In dlire with gifts v by P civiizmtion's maris, “The ooy coveted yesearch center wanted 1ypes i id ' il planecrs n e Nunivak divent anthrn o thely Mi, Callins determine the physical Burrounding reions, and the white tissel on his cap stand- ing out in the hiack n They car- ried him up Main street, out the pi Laurel Forks, velling praise threatening to kill tha man who had arrested him. To many men in that mob Uncle Bhe had hnce been San Claus, and they remembered with & slight touch nf shame that in all the vears he had given them and their ldren the Christmases they might otherwise not have had. they had given him nothing in return. He had eaten his Christmas dinners in his cabin alone, and how did they know he had not eaten them sadly? It was the eve of Christ's hirthday. Tomo mow would he Christmas. and this time Uncle E “hristmas! * e T!IH charge against the old man was not dropped. During a more fitting s.2s0on he was rearrested. His defense was an explanation whispered in his counsel's ear. “If your honor please.” his attorney announced, “the defendant pleads not guilty to the charge of counterfeiting, | for the dollars he made are not eoun- terfeit. They in no_way resemble Governmes: money. They are made of pure silver, without alloy, each worth more than one dollar. Nor has he attempted to imitate our national coin—for this old man had no money to copy. On one side he has engraved the figure of an owl, on the other a five-pointed star. figures, your honmor, we see stuck in plug chewing tobacco. The adzes are smooth and the coins are larger than Government mone: Uncle Ebe told every one to whom he gave them: “They all right, only not made where other money is." The dollar that informed on him might not have got outside the county had the person to whom he gave it taken the time to examine it closely. Rut folks were too busy examining the | mentality of this old man. “Why did he make this dollar? He created it in order to bring another Christmas te Cox County. Up in Laurel Hollow he hid himself for nearly a whole year with hardly enough to eat, because he knew ti pain in disappointment. Could he have plaved his role of Santa Clous any better? He had no tools but the rough ones he invented. It was a bit of genius. Your Honor™ And later: “Ebenezer Jonathan turned to him, but he did not seem to | the stranger stood by threatening him | Mackaboy, vou are acquitted.” (Copvrieht. 1027,) THE END. sle, Visited by Smithsonian Scientists a8 to he able to form a better hasis of comparis with those on Nunivak. | Consequently, the Hoxer stopped at fvarious points from the Aleutian Is- fland chain northward, where less than a dozen white men are to be | | found throughout the 500-mlle stretch and where the entire coastal region gave evidence of an exceedingly primi- | tive oulture. Skeletal material wax collected, the people were measured, and villige sites observed and photo- | kraphed. |'* optimistic indeed wan the Summer | cimate impression the travelers gain- | led about the ixland from wiseacres |at Seattle. No doubt, they were told, the temperature range would be Laround 40 degrees above, perhaps even warmer, and certainly more pleasant than Washington's ordinary mild | But the newcomers, once on the rocky, treeless, | Wintors,. lunde | | v | droary fsle, waited in vain for the | gentle awaying of the balmy breeres | predicted by the weather prophets. Itain and mist and fog were the order ’nf virtually the entire Bummer. Mr. i, with just pride, that d occaslon to wear " | many clothes in hix life as during his | wojourn ut Nunivak. Tut it was some satisfaction to the Amerleans that two of their own kind gular dwellers on the Inle— . und Mrx, I, 1. Bird, teachers un- the United’ States Hoard of Edu tion. The couple had been there four yearn TTAIL the martyrs to education have I not been given their due, necording ta Mr. {'oliins. To say that the teach er and his wife have done a monumen tal job in their brief stay and at untold | suerifce and monotony 1o themaelves, i to express the situation mildly. Ple | ture them at the outset, landing on an ixland on which not one soul knew a word of English, where no white people had ever lived, where no en- tertainment win o be had, wher |itation and leat wers unknown where throngs of liee frolleked on the ent populace. Hut n schoolhouse had to pe bulit, along with decent v Ing quarters for the eouple. And built Wowas hiendieaps notw ithstanding MWith gy gent, n highly ereditable | fenme edifice came fnto heing and 1t | monument to untiring Mishnens: a ter of Will, n never failing source of advice, n hamdet of vefuge to the slek o unfortunate L B WEPH fuctlities targely of thele own nvention, then, the couple set ot te teach the chlldren first, to penlc ind next to Weite, nnd finally, something of that fascinating land thet wars Anerh Twn makn fackn enter dominantly Into the educational experiment, Mr, Calling believes—first, the (eachers wern very much up to thele job, and second, the ehildren weve unusually ntelligent, Indecd such (n the gen aval nature of the tiny tribe that | habits (he island. Hesides, they w fuciedly friendly, chearful and help [rar in dimposition. — Huvline undue Iciam and_omshnoss —all (oo well HENRY R, coLl have learned them well. Seven to 15 I8 the age rangs among them. Mr. Collins recalls with amusement hix first Sunday at Nunivak. He was celebrating the occasion simultaneous. Iy with the day of rest hy washing garments on u erude washbo, Win quarters, aided and abetted by a ADPING BeNTY trickling from 2 hillslde, when little Jack, all of § years old frolicked along. Neeing the white man doing n Togleally alone, hix shrewd 1t face took A thoughtful exprossion, A e of witence, N he bt With this of phrasenloky Georke Washing o owashing. wash T, Wanshing A fow moments of “thix, combi With a lnukhin: spree that the Ial's frame aniver vi Iy, and the young seamp marched awny 1t the chillren did not stay away very lon from the interesting white men Two o three of the boyvs wnd Bl who served as interpretens he cuure the older folks knew no Englis were about ax live a group of wis chiet makers, Meo Colling vows, as ever bogged for candy or chewing Kum Ohmorving on ent forth Immediately that the White men wanted samples of their cultire they wera mota than wil g to help them out in the matter Rata, mice, vocks, shelln=they stopped at nothing, so that soon the sclentist’s aunrters toak on the uppearance of w Wnown amol the educated white men - seem (o be well nigh anknown o thesa primitive upholders of good wiln Today the bnker's doxen of youny wlevs v nhmoxt mnrvelons tn (el nowledga of the Enalish langiage and wundey Yankeolsmn, They seam per ahout, quoting poetry and chant g wnatehes of American songs at n grent vate He the Jatier sentimental patiiotie humorous, th or Aovint's shop in distress, - hug ex pert's hamb uneared w, nnd an antinue whop fallen Into disuae, all Jonbled tagother, Many were the loaghe the Amer feans derived from the juveniles' hnbit roapleling off big words, One lad frequently would repeat, entively with ont warning and with intense elvoum speation, the phiases, “Rilgadior Gon wral” and "Chiet Engineer Anothey children cheruh had a “lots of ‘em" complex, REAL ALAS OF THE ||:mv time he deemed It necessary to Kive vent ta his enthusiasm he would find & place somewhere in his wordy menologus for his pet phrase, “lots of k. Nor would he alwavs use it in Mrietly apropos fashion, as was evi. denced by the fact that it he saw Kreat main tuning he would exclaim, Jobh whieh he assochyted | With the lot of womankind | Donald, Jack, Albert, Dais: The Smithsonian's guess that the Nunivakers were virtually unadulter ated cuiturally was well borne out by the facts. Probably the best general ization that might be applied to them states that a peonle’s mental. mural Caroline and rand ceremonial life may be virtualty ITHSONIAN WITH A GROUP OF NUNIVAK YO | {for the benerit of all within possible | hearing nee. “Rain, lots of ‘em. {Or perhape. when he skinned an {ankle, he would hellow: “Outch! lots fof tem.™ Like our own live-wire youngsters in America, the Nunivak hoys and girls are extremelv fand of comparing theiv | helghts awd weights, Every time the anthropolagists were ocoupied in sei | lontifle measurements, the yvoungsters would he clustered about nearby, mak I marks on doors te show thelr ve speetive heishis, or hragging ahout | their poundage (o & lesser welghted tellow, R many priwitive | dinarily have & ratsn detre, They | Ay arkse, perhaps, trom the fact that | brother soand so was o bhig w fsh man, sixters suchand-such A terror at humb O, apparentl mong the curious Nunivakers, They possess whoppers | of mames, but the fact doesn’t seem 10 have aiy relationshin with deeds of mighty valor, Where 15, 10 be sure this practice <when the fist ehilt | opens (ta eves to s windswept home, } PAPA therelpon assumes {ts name. 1ONG peeples nan Aty vational a Kreat was MONGOLOID IN FEATURE, RUT A AN ESKIMO MOTHER, throwing his own into the discard other word he thereafter is Knawn by R nelghhors as “Johnny's Papa.’ novelty, Certainly who have to mest hearing forever a prosai MR Rame wWould welewns wlfovding Americans Mroblems TR s shift, An for the chilklien, the fuct that they are supposed 1o ik about ey W UBDEORGIesR e (T W o WeNA, doesn‘t oo Whit, *ome forced to dub their chay fashioned Yankee titles, such as Ned, are used for a short t ally, thereby ever, much ples, Kinds of berries in some abundance— atuse an ini the ever served oil, few, one something hke our sp and ane with a tasty slons around Victually the goat mafor doctrines of Chr | aday Al noan elabovat clasely il | FACE SPems not <tvar el b i NG {f..\u.‘.x material Akl i adapting i Ing, because. as M O dintued thew o 4t Inthis they ave aited by the [fanee Paond teachers, wha veally have hewn | inthronalogist o8 By aldh | UM S\tmple of adherence to the untouched by outside ¢ the material life ma signs of the white man's culture. In- dsed, a curi paradox of these prim itive folk s that in the lesser matters of life newness is distinctly the order of the day. New wooden dishes, new Kayaks (crude - boats) are made afresh each season. Even the crude ditties compased b the men and surg in the ceremon: only. Sumg throughout one season, ‘hey ar: cast side for fresher melodies and are probably not heard at all in subse ilization, but bear strong nuent years. Though the matches. the guns and the metal cooking devices of the white nan are used abundantly and gener the Nunivak diet is unaffected To our way, of thinking, how current delicacies are not fed. Fish “wds are sta urse, and there are a few the div ot o ies and salmonberries colovedy salmonberries dtxagrecadle taste in mouth, Surprisingly soon, how & pleasint faver s forthegming. A typieal terry dis . is supposed to e respond rouzhly to our heloved foe cream. - But hearke the curious make-n Zen dessert—saal oil, s s ana snow! Those of us Who tRink Ash eaten With ioe cream is ruinous to t n would dalk at the dish, the nats W the skies Another d cy is herring eggs D seanwveds cooked in sea! As forr vegetadies. there are a celery Uke N Which thrives in the vich earth of re handoned housva, M our Christian sense s unk own thongh naturally teachers try to instill the nte & work onde for the natites. In the primitive conceptions of Ve Providence are wrapped v weries of coreme it With the seal like the To the unin Reltgion Mo enerat The £® When it is real nothe Bk that the seal ol o his envivenment. It skin s used for Kavaks, fish lnes, boots and VALious other materialy of leataer. We bl Portionsand there ave many For tood, and its ol for hight The ceremonials are Nighly tnterest Colling points o, the Nunivakers. from the standpes t In| O pPhvaical, material and sl cut e, prodabl [at at vather than, et us wev, Awatikivah | At least the practice has the vivtue of | ally are the moa® paimitive Alaskan Kshimos. ™ The tvpieal Nunivak hoad ts wnuse LS Ngh—With an extremen Droad face and tassive Mw and teeth lite's | develapment however, Broad hing of the same sort of pame | Iha adivining mainiand Thete aie on the hand SNE DNAplen A AR even headel type chavacteristie of The st *al hunt of the vear i ARt WA furmal ceremonies, P Which the entive vitlage partiob nates. DARRCAS AF® VOIY mueh in deder e The e Nunivak W ounfaiin W he hecan A sl L the (Cuntinued on Siath Pagey