The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1901, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL. OoOToe TNV SN SN SIS BNT . 5 CHICKASANY GIRL_ ?:;;FK:NGDE,WAMaNb INGS., PE DRE - TRIMM\NARL'BEADb elo 8. . The n shape of . comm ¥ X . a 1 we of el ’ Gecorative A wo-Kiitu buckskir wit ! f I satin 18 & great favorite for drews lin and shirt wals mong the Indian w men. Yellow silk in u er of their vorites, t was the prevafiin color this year. Next year the Jndian woman who leads the f 1 deored . new n | up-t date thing f course all of the won Boclety as we name It Is a th m known among the reservation dudian wo men, but the sve & certain of { 5o clal standing he wame. When (hoy come to the small towns or there may be assembled woveral hundred of the women from varlous parts of ti country they gather in the "y and talk over events among themseis gossip upon the scandals und rall agulnst the whites for hours t time It s during this func be seen In their best tion that they muy Iroms, and each « tries to outdo her nelghbor In ornamen s The more elk teeth one hus on her drows F, the néxt time Il “trtend's garden he you go exclaime, into your | don't wake the geraniums!" don't be 8 Lurprised. Botanists are just now insisting uppn the necessity of slecp for flowers and plants and trees, A well known botanist who has been investigat- Ing the causes which retard the growth of trees and flowers in cities has laid e al stress upon the fact that the main reason that they do not flourish as they do in the country is that they are kept awake too much at night. The smoke and dust, of course, have something to do with it, but one of the principal causes of thelr lack of vigor is want of proper sleep. All forms of vegetable life must, at regular intervals, be allowed to relapse into & condition of repose or some radical change will result in the form of the plant. A geranium cannot be out all night with the larkspur and look bright and fresh the next morning. Neither can the Gr tree neglect its proper sleep to sit up GARDEN PLANTS MUST HAVE Two ARAPAHOE GIR ONE DRESS COVERED wWiTH ELK TEETH PoncA \Wome N ONE SEATER \ WEARS #4400 WorTH OF FINGER RINGS HA 2 GoLd BELLS AROUOND BorTom oF PRESS ‘oNE STANDING HADYD #3300 RINGS AND P175 BEAD NECKLACE. the more popular she is at these weekly meetings at the ugency bulldings, Th exumiy wh 1 r curefu 1 freely expross to the wearer opinion upor 1 q Ul " If n dross meets with the disapproval of one, she es It Sometimes opfn quarrel Before they go hor tuke n vole on the dre und the awier of the hest In crowned leader of fushior the t week, and all must refrain from critl clging her dress, Durlng the envuing we there In # great race o outshine her g mente and this s genernlly accom plished, no matter how hard vhe ma have steiven to hold her pluce in the Jeund 1o not have to work They ® hard do litule The squaws ax In generally supposed SLEEP. » ash without raining its 1€ 1o look a demoralized old tree long before its yuntry the trees and the bed with the chickens, but e most moral and well in- , the most circumspect and staid trees, will be kept awake by a variety of causes; while an immoral holly- hock or a dissipated elm tree has a short life and a merry one in the great city. Of the causes which keep the trees and flowers awake nights the botanist sa) that, in the first place, there is the matt of noise in all its forms and the vibration which goes with the constant activity of city life. Plants and flowers of all kinds sleep best away from the glare; so the lights of a city, which shine all through the night, must contribute to this inter- ference with vegetable sleep. Electricity, independent of its use for lighting pur- poses, has a bad effect upon plant life. seeming to make trees and flowers irritable and nervous and to break up their consti- tution. But, above all, a piant must have sleep; so don't wake the geraniums or disturb the slumbers of the sunflower. tentioned LS ~r =] outside thelr houses, as the . adians who buve an Income from the United States do not farm All of the money due the women tn pafd diveet to them, and they wrend It to thelr own tastes, which menny for dresy The wwellest gowns are made from tunned buffalo hides, which at this time arc very wearce, The lenther in soft and durable. It & made up Into a comfort ably fitting wliet and loowe walst, AJl dresxor mre cut In about the sume style They cost very lttle until the decorntions ndded, Thix & where the extrava- gance beging, Not leaw than a hundred elk teeth # the bosom of a dreus, | and sometimes two hundred are used. | They cun be #old at from £ to $10 aplece, | Then a row of gold braid must go around | the bottom of the skjr(, and a string of pearl beads should adorn every bull, With additions cf elk teeth, pearls and oyster shells the dress soon becomes very valu- able, As the Comanches and thelr nelghbors the Kiowas were great hunters they have the most elk teeth and buffalo hides; | hence in Indian circles the women of these two tribes arc supposed to be the best dressed. Not until last Easter did the squaws intfoduce the wearing of hats, but they spent money freely for headpleces when they once began. They all had their hats trimmed with red roses and violets. Some of the hats were as large as a bushel basket. The fashions they follow'are very amusing to the white people, but / gl etir orn [l i L with them it ¢ a serfuus business, and the women are as much interested in thelr shopping as a white woman would be in front of the counter of one of the largest millinery houses In New York. Civilization J& steadily growing with these people, und the ways of the whites show In many matters besides those of dress. Most of the young married couples of the Kiowa ard Comanche tribes have comfortable houses instead of tepees. They are well educated, having been forced to attend the Government schools. fo these new manners of life the young mcen and women take kindly, but the old- er class will have none of them. They continue to live in tents, as do full-bloods of other Southwest tribes. The young Indian wife of to-day” is clean, a fairly good cook and tidy with her house. She iz not vet well versed in the art of decoration and red and green are predominating colors in all of her rooms, whether in harmony or not. The house has good furniture, but it Is str ranged. The lounge is a favorite plece of furni- ture, and one sees it in every Indian household, always in the parlor. If the Indlans have a plano or organ it goes into the bedroom. The young buck's best sad- dle also goes into the parlor and in many houses it i& hung upon the wall. Red rib- bons are tled to everything, even the tall of the cat. For no Indian household is complete without & cat and a dog. I"ew books are found In the houses, but newspapers and magazines are common. One may spend a week in an Indian home and every day he will get the news of the outside world by the daily paper just the same as at his home in the East. The young men are very fond of yellow-back novels, esgpecially those dealing with so- clety. Translations of French novels are their boon companions in the book line. The young wife has been trained to look well to the ways of her household. For D) COMANCHE. GI ELk TEETH DECORATL BUCK SEIN WORTH Al hot corn cakes, mush, hominy and br with eorn wyrup. For dinner, ronst meats, hominy, pota and rice, r, hot biscult, fried me t and A roticeable thing i that coffee |4 only used ut the ning meal The renson for this fu thut Indiang belleve If taken in the morning or ut noon ft sets their braing in . whirl, while ut dvening it enuson them to wleep well und scundly, There 18 a wuperstition, too, that coffee ts the drink of the evil one und sheuld be taken only “hotit hen ho can rid himuelf of 1ty avil affects, Customs, of courtship und murrluge are very different™rom what they wero yeurs ago. It used to be thut the betrothed HBwoot Water looked forward with dread to a life of wedded slavery Rolling Pony. The wedding would wenl her fate to a lfe of drudgery. Nowudayy Inde when one fs to wleep. to pondence {3 coming to Indian women aw well as white ones. The division of labor 18 about the same as In familles of our own people, The man of the family goos forth to enrn the brend while the womhan stays at home to bake it The courtehip of an Indlan s brief and 10 the point, It used to be that the young buck was foreed to buy his bride from her earth which stands in need of a great~ er populution Is the one which puts the most obstacles in the way of mar- | rlage. A while ago a workman sged 30 wanted to marry a woman aged 25, who was divorced and an orphan. Armed with every document bearing on his identity he could think of, the workman repaired to the town hall of his district. His cer- tificate of birth was pounced on at once by a clerk. It was out of date, a recent law requiring that all such documents to be valid must have been delivered within the previous three months. To obtain a fresh certificate the workman had to write to the village where he was born. The delay was fatal. While he was walt- ing for a reply his parents unexp:ctedly came in for a little money and In their altered circumstances their prospective daughter-in-law ceased to find favor in their eyes. In France, whatever one's age, one cannot marry without the con- sent of parents until after the accom- H T {8 0dd that the nation of all on the WHEN A FRENCHMAN BRIDE AND GQRooM — BRIDES cLoA. - TRIMMeEp WITH E=< Wit -7 { a girl that house. The her to marry h her. There is t refuse. Thae flirting will nd he will ban- he refuses her as many girl if she accepts to announce ver time he ement of a betrothal an the girl may be the shade of her lodge f Indlans passes before her, one's head howed. They are clad in gay colcrs and she wears a head= 1ress that wou do honor to a South Sea qucen. Her pec ire honoring her as befits one of her statio Whether ¢ t the groom be a great man, the marr s always celebrated &t his hous The girl Is © rought there by her mother, who gives her away at the minfster must be an educated be fashion= tan it the ceremony Is te able. No white people are allowed to ate tend. All the Indlans wear blankets dur- Ing the ceremony. After it is over they throw off the blankets and are found to be dress In up-to-date Oklahoma fashe Tte bride stands behind the minister and the groom in front. He takes the glrl by the right hand and the young man by the left, Then he says “Do you take t! mun (giving name) to be your huse band until the Great Spirit shall call you, to huve no other husband but him, to love and obey him Ehe nnwwers In the afMirmative, Then the young mun s, asked if he loves the girl and If Ae will support her. After his reply the minister places the right hand of the girl in the left hund of the young man, kisses both of them, and the ceree mony wd. Every mun In the house may kiss the bride on the right cheels und the women cach embruce her. Then the groom brings forth hig wedding pres ent, which may be u sewing machine of A gold watgh, and before the assemblage makes hiw first @it to his wife, A wede aing teasd follows: It 1s held ut the new home of the young people There are many young Indlan couples Hving In the Klowa and Comunche reser vatfon. Of course, & great many of them ure not full-blood Indlans. It 18 surprise Ing to wee the number of Indlan families who live happlly and thus overthrow tra- ditlonal fiction, The young man usually loves the girl he weds und would not hesi. tate to kill any ofie who would seek to break up the family eire Indfan wives are seldom untrue to thelr husbunds, and It does not go well with them If they are found to be so. They love thelr children, and wome of the mest congenlal family circles in the world may be found among the tribes of the Bouthe wost. WILLIAM R, DRAPER. ------ — WANTS TO MARRY. plishment of certain formalities. His family remaining obdurate, the workman duly had them served at the appointed intervals with the prescribed number of ‘“respectful notices at the cost of $13 e operation over, he re- turned to the town ball, where the clerk poitted out to him that he was just a week too late. Kvery one of the baker's dozen of docume he bad to produce wus now more than three months old and as worthless as waste paper. He possesséd his soul in such patience as he was able, did as he was bid and re- appeared, before the registrar with his batch of newly delivered and attested “‘papiers.” Then he was asked to produce a copy of the sentence pronounced by the divorce court. He had not got it, being igaorant that it was necessary. However, he was rather comf:rted on hearing that nothing was easier thaa to procure it, ard he hur- ried off to the palais de justice for the purpose. There he learned that he must pay $40 for the required document. The sum exceeded his means and he is sull unmarried.