Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — PREFERS BLUBBER AND OIL [ARTICLE]

PREFERS BLUBBER AND OIL

Eskimo Woman Quits Children to Return to Old Life—Couldn’t, Prove Her Marriage. Seattle. Wash. —American food and the ways of civilization pleased an Eskimo woman but a short time. When she first struck these shores with her white husband and children the contrast to her own Ice-bound home was attractive, but soon she tired of our ways and sighed for the snow-covered plains of her native land, for the luscious seal oil and the succulent blubber. She arrived here for the recent exposition. and her mate decided to make his home once more among his own race, purchasing a ranch on Vashon island. His wife learned a little English from neighbors, but American ways did not appeal to her and her temper suffered. Hubby traded his ranch and wished to establish near Springfield, Mo. Wifey, however, would have none of it, and learning that it was the white custom to settle matrimonial troubles in a law court applied for assistance to attorneys. Her native land, however, was far away, and she had no evidence of being married, so she contented herself by just embarking upon the first steamer bound for the Arctic regions, and our great civilisation knows her no more.