The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1901, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. pre— N = . \ AT SOMEOY\ | { \ —~— . - SO s ¢ AN ! g I \\:\\'\ ™ 77 U ; e Lol g \ N 5 r ‘ EEAT:X Tox TA = my use I'll drive him or't with a broom- of “I shall he n housekeeyer.” says littic gr Casey. Eittle Margaret, by A way, lives in one of the most luxurious San Francisco. Her mother is 1 < Casey < ki ttle son of the Harry Sherwoods t " m Al ambit He loves church | horisters ir r I us parents. He is . wil . he W. H o i 2 house on Jackson ing the winter = Sl = t at his parents’ . : Redwood City— g TR . SR MARTARET TADEY . -‘ d he is s A AN A FLEN 4 enjovment and luxury And Willie wants to be ” of W. H. = ® M of Hon. W * most dis- f = 1s ely littlo & 1@ out-of-door Sports. pioneer 1 want to be a ecircus r M Dore id Arabelle. “There are lots of - r satlor 1 like » be, but that seems (o s rmy . nicest. 1 shali turn bars,,walk » - T he lale qight ropes and all that.” .. tin son «f Mr. and Mrs. 5 . will be an electriclan. s all about electrics and gy r run by electricity in the 2 nt of his home which iz his pride - ov. He fixes lights for his mother s E € i and all that. Elmer's litte g r & > = sing and play. She in enjo ne ms of . opera singer when she 8 children of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick of on, g tilidren of Charles 7 sic s the ploneer, rave different ambi- average juvenile. tions from those of t¥ Helen will be a profossional nurse or a tor, she says. Her brother Fred wiil i naturalist, 1 ssiz or Thoreau. a den off his ¢ » in redwood oom which is all which containz ios from all over ‘iie world. He takes t in his rhells,birds’ cggs and nests. also a splendid collection of ola queer people, Py westward along the taking the cld Yuma trail, highway of communication,be Me nd California. We w now faced by a ninety-mile jaunt withour pot which offered Half the dis nce was over excecdir heavy sand d a quarter was over volcanic flows. next struck v line, Colo tween w We had three successive dry camps and = - it was noon of the fourth day before we r r b ck water. It hanvened to be bumid sor and stormy and our Dlankets were wet 'Cros, the whole distance. Two days and an- Dor - other dry camp brought us to Yuma, at mig for the affluence of the Coiorado and «.la. W + outfitted and went down the Colorado sever ¥ miles by road to a ~lace some- times called Colonia Letdo, where the Co- copa people live. “The Cocopas greativ surprised me. Living so near to the gulf I supposed, of course, that they ware fishing people. T Then we found them essentiallv :gricul'ural. They b were cultivating corp, beans, peas and t squashes: they were narvesting uve dt- e ferent of grasses for their seed.. ed their:little farms ac- to the caprice of the floods fre occurring in this valley. They rnla coast quently w pushed down into thelr alleged Drofessed to be strongly inimical to Ahe P i four days’ journey. I founi Mexican Government and to be anxious to rem s of their huts and some accumula- emigrate to the United States. t shells and from what I saw “The Cocopas are geperally of fine physique. The men are tall and robust. I measured one and fourd him to stand six feet three. Thelr skirs are dark. They have very large feet, rotable for i.e fact v estimated that been extinct or have years 2go Do Tepokas must devarted ten We then 1eturned to Saato zo. R i o e T armor, swords, pistols and Tndian curios. Little Miss Balayed, whose parents own one of the largest anéd most magnificent that the middle toes are invariably the longest. 1 saw the big fellow whom I measured ran barefoatca over a patch of sharp stubble left by staiks of the eat tail flag, which had been burned. He was hunting wild hogs and his feet —ere noi hurt in the least. It common to s the men comeé to our camp fire and poxe the coals with their naked toes. One fel- low had thus burned all of his toe nails black, although his icet were otherwise uninjured. The toes «f these peovle ars 150 on account of their nim- W one max pick up a red not coal with his foot to light his cigarette. Another, ‘walking aloag a road, thus clutched a stick which he wanted to us for a cane, He raised it to his hand a continued on his way lump of sugs he Giopped it, but the nimble toes calight 1t and brought it to his hand. aQ 1 gave a’chiid a ““The burial customs of the Cocopas are very interesting. Uson the death of one of the tribe his kinsmen cut thelr long hair {0 a shortness proportionate to the closeness of the relailonship of each 12 the deceased. If the dead should be pos- sessed of property it is given agay to the different miembers of the tribe, but ne: to his relatives. This is a clever dev. to prevent a family dispute as to owner- ship of any of the property. Many primi- tive people have taken such precaution against the possible civision of a house- hold against itself, us, for Instance, the mother-in-law taboo of certain Indian tribes. This prevents any exchange of country places in San Mateo, already dls- plays artistic talent and intends to o o Paris and study art. L T e e S i . ) Whe Pick Up Kot Cozls With Their Togs and Who Bury Their Marriafeable Wermen Tn the Earth Over Night. wordd and any e association whatever be- 'n mother-in-law anc child-in-law 'hese people ‘are ostengibly mo: mous. Of their polygamy, in which they formerly lived ogenly. there are traces, kept in the background out of ference to the Mexican .aw. “They have prescribed a strange ordeal which must be undergone by every Coco- pa girl before she can be considered to be marriageable, When she Is ready to take a husband a hole is dux in the ground and in it is built a fire, kept burning until the surrounding earth has been thoroughly warmed. The fire is then extinguished and the bride-elect placed In the pit. She is buried to her neck and in this condi- tion iseleft standing over night. After be- Ing dug out the next morning she is ready for the connubial state “Bach Cecopa famiiy is bound by a strict law perta'ning to property rights . Strictly domestic property belongs to the woman, farmstead property to the man “During my stay among them the Co- copas had a great feast, out In the ex- treme northwestern part of their terri- tory, at 4 point seventy-five miles from Colonia Lerdo. 1 contemplated attending this jollification, but changsd my mind and later bad reason to be thankful that I had thus reconsidered. One of the tribe committed a depredation, for which three of the Mexican rural pulice undertook to arrest him. His comvaualons rescued him and tore the police utterly to pleces. The Mexicans will, of course, punish the Co- covas for this, althouzh the latter are A ———— JRICE DOREY) | e Lot many hundreds of miies distant from cly- flization. The penalty for their crime will vrobably be the further reduction of their . ECYE b PABLNICAT Pre Ll TALBLT sutoer by from a auzen to a score ot souls. And so it is that I am glad that I did not attend their banquet, for be- 5 TLE LT FRTEC BALAIRD || T RORD OIS tween the Mexicans and the Indians thers might have been very little left of me te return to civilization.”