Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — A Maori Fast Woman. [ARTICLE]

A Maori Fast Woman.

She wore a tall, black hat and dark veil, a dark-blue well-fitting riding habit, a dainty pink and white necktie; I afterward saw she wore a pair of French-looking boots and black and white stockings. She was, in fact, a “real dark swell.” She talked a little English, and, after hearingof my plight, she made the third rider, an ordinarylooking native, dismount, and give me his horse, he remaining to do what he could for mine. We rode on to a native village, and there had some boiled potatoes and dried peaches for lunch. My fair riding companion soon afterward appeared without the riding habit, but with a dirty clay pipe in her mouth. I fear her civilization, like her dress, was only a new habit, whose greatest charm was the ease with which it could be discarded .—Trazer's Magazine,