Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — SQUAWS FOR HIRED GIRLS. [ARTICLE]

SQUAWS FOR HIRED GIRLS.

Carson City, Nev., Likes Them, Though They Are Not Dependable. Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is probably the only city in the country where the hired girl is a squaw. To the Carson City housewife every Indian man is Jim and every Indian woman is Sally. Neither Jim nor Sally can ever be depended on to work regularly, but as other help Is scarce and high priced the occasional services which they deign to render are always welcome, an exchange says. When Sally wants to work she always opens the kitchen door without the formality of a knock and says: “Mahaylle (woman), you want work done?” Or simply, “Me which means that she is hungry and wants to work for a meal. An eastern woman is apt to be frightened the first time this happens or the first time she looks up and sees a buck’s swarthy face pressed against the outside of the window, but she soon learns that Jim and Sally are quite tame. Sometimes Sally comes shivering to the door In winter with a baby under her blanket. She is “heap cold” and wants to toast herself and the queer littljs morsel of humanity on her back at the kitchen fire. Sometimes Sally will bring an armful of baskets to sell at the door, and then the eastern woma.n x rejoices exceedingly, for she knows that she can pick up for a few cents baskets that she would have to pay dollars for in the Carson stores. The housewife likes to get a Piute Sally to work for her if possible, for she is cleaner, more industrious and more adaptable than the Shoshone or Washoe Sallies. The remnants of these three tribes have their homes up in the high hills above Carson, where no one else wants the land. They come down to the city every day, but they never stay there over night. ■ i ■_—