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3httoana JJaily STimrs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. * . * - (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices (yew York, Boston, Payne, Burns A: Sniirh, Inu SUSPENDED sentences are becoming as numerous in the Criminal Court as paroles were in the Goodrich days! BUT is a lawyer who says he would rather cut off his right hand than give an opinion against a friend always a safe guide for the school board-' EX-GOVERNOR GOODRICH doubtless experienced the same feeling that some of his former constituents experienced as he cooled his heels outside the office of Governor McCray! NO ONE should be surprised over the purchase of road oil by “verbal contract” in Marion County, as revealed by the board of accounts That is the way our county commissioners transacted most of their official business. RESIDENTS of Woodruff Place, who have no vote in the primaries, are included in the original 100 Howe-for-Mayor Club. Now it is asserted that names were used without authority In the list of sponsors of the Robison meeting. Sounds almost like General Vood is running again. The Shame of It! Disclosure that the Indiana University School of Medicine numbers among its “dog snatchers’’ a Rushville youth with a record of delinquency in the courts of that city is not calculated to inspire much faith in the contention of the medical college that “only stray dogs” are obtained by It for dissection at the college. A 16-year-old boy with a monetary reward before him for obtaining dogs and a record of disrespect for the property rights of others behind him is hardly to be regarded as a reliable secret agent for the procurement of dogs for any purpose. When these circumstances are combined with the very evident desire of the college authorities to keep their traffic in dogs a deep secret, the general tendency will be to believe that there are great possibilit.es for the ultimate arrival at the dog kennels of animals that were not astray but stolen. One depravity generally leads directly to another. Operations such as are reported at the medical college constitute what many persons regard as depravity. Certainly the inducement of a 16-year-old boy to undertake the work of procuring, secretly, dogs under conditions that put a premium on theft, falls under the broad definition of depravity. There can hardly be any dispute over the extreme impropriety of in ducing such a youth as Thomas Kemp to become a “dog snatcher” for the college. Nor can any great amount of credence attach to the declarations of college authorities that pets are never molested when it is shown that no safeguards are thrown around the collecting of these dogs, but the whole procedure is masked in the secrecy that the college seems to think so essential to its affairs. It is unfortunate, indeed, that there is no agency either of a public or a quasi-public nature that has either the ability or the courage to bring the authorities of the medical college to a realization of the offenses thev are committing against the community under the guise of "science It has been disclosed and never disputed that dogs undergo experimental surgery at the college in direct violation of the law concerning the mutilation of animals. It has been disclosed and never disputed that the authorities of the college have failed to pay State taxes on dogs which they harbor and are thereby violating the State law'. It has been disclosed and never disputed that the college authorities are harboring unlicensed dogs in direct violation of the municipal code of Indianapolis. Now it has been disclosed that the college attaches are placing extreme temptation in the way of a youth whose resistance to temptation is known to be bad and are cloaking their connections with him in deep secrecy, the only purpose of which is their own protection. Yet none of the agencies which are supported by the taxpayers of Indianapolis have seen fit to exercise the power conferred upon them by the law to prevent these practices. Here is an example of how our system of government breaks down when influential and active proponents of lax law enforcement interest themselves in causing it to collapse. The next step is. of course, the instigation of legal processes by citizens who are not amenable to the same influence that have caused public officials to neglect their duties. Certainly those persons against whom such processes are eventually issued cannot complain that they have not been sufficiently warned or that sufficient opportunity has not been given them to comply with the statutes. McCray Falls When Governor McCray voluntarily and publicly announced that all applications for executive elemency would be handled through the board of paroles and pardons during his administration those persons who had looked upon the disruption of law enforcement by the Goodrich leniency breathed with relief and were quick to applaud the wisdom of the incoming official. Now that it has developed that the announcement was not a true statement of intention, but a mask to cover executive clemency extended in direct contravention of the public announcement of Governor McCray there is a great deal of surprise and some consternation. No explanation of the Governor’s reversal of position has been ad. vanced by Miss Bush, his secretary, who has apparently been entrusted with the power to say whether public matters shall be brought to the attention of the Governor or not, and in the absence of any such explanation it is reasonable to believe that Governor McCray has found the members of Governor Goodrich’s "parole-bund” too powerful politically to be ignored. even in the interests of good government and law enforcement. The first and foremost example of the abuse of the executive power to extend clemency comes in the relief of Maurice Bleiweiss of the necessity of serving a thirty-day sentence in Jail, which the Supreme Court of Indiana decreed he should serve. Bleiweiss seems to be possessed of some remarkable pull with the law enforcement agencies of Indiana. First, he escaped prosecution on a charge of manslaughter when a car he was driving caused the death of a man. Then he appealed a sentence to Jail to the Supreme Court and escaped serving it when the sentence was affirmed through the action of one Governor of Indiana Now, according to the statement of Miss Bush, who as the Governor’s secretary appears to have all the powers of the Governor, he has been unconditionally pardoned by the second Indiana Governor to handle his case. This announcement of unconditional pardon comes before the secretary to the Governor makes public the recommendation of the pardon board, so it is Impossible to Judge whether the pardon board took the same view of the case as the Governor. But this we do know —Bleiweiss appealed directly to McCray and came away from his conference with the Governor assured of ultimate release from a sentence sustained by the Supreme Court. And this, in spite of the fact that the Governor had previously publicly announced that he would consider paroles and pardons only on the recommendation of the board! The responsibility for the release from prison of men sent there by the courts of Indiana is the Governor's. He may interpose the parole board if he pleases or he may deal with the criminals directly if he pleases. But he will not long retain the confidence of the people of Indiana if he announces one day his intention of submitting such cases to the board ind the next day deals directly with the criminal. Equal rights and Justice to all cannot be done under such circum-

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By W. D. BOYCE.

OTORUA, New ■JI U* though they have JSf yielded to civiliE'f'L zation better ; i than any native Bca race 1 know and in spit 6 of the H fact that they have adopted J most of the white (3 m a n’s good things without ■ succumbing to y jjpjajy all his vices except the booze, less than 50,000 Maoris remain in New Zealand, the country where once they were supreme. Like which once were savage, the Maoris have not benefited by taking to European garb but they have withstood disease better. The government takes more than passing interest in them and insists that sanitary conditions in the villages shall be of the best. Add to this the fact that the country naturally js well drained and that the fresh sea pir reaches to all parts of it and that it is as far south of the equator as the northern part of the United States is north of it and it is not surprising to find that. In the last few years the birth rate among the Maoris has crept slightly ahead of the death rate. It may be, as some say, that the decline of the race has been checked and a steady increase may be expected. I hope so, for the Maoris are lovable, grown-up children and it would be a pity to see them wiped out. Captain Conklin In 1771. when he circled the islands, estimated the number of natives that he saw on the shores at 2.V>.o<io and figured that as many more lived in the interior, junking 500.000 all told. All but 100.000 of them perished in one. epidemic ns a result of some disease contracted from eating the sailors from a wrecked ship. It was Susan, venerable grandmother, who hears her years well and who is Immensely proud of the. fact that her three sons fought < n the side of Croat Britain In tlie late war, who piloted us around an 1 explained what we saw. She was eind In a calico dress, covered by a linen duster and was surmounted by a wide brimmed white hat. Years of guiding strangers from fir lands has given Susan a polish and a speech and a smile that would grace the halls of society She I Is extremely polite and nffuht. she does net play you for a gullible fool and she d'a-s her best to satisfy your every wish it was early the morning after our; arriva’l that Susan having been hired the night before, telephoned that ttie geysers > in the village of Whaka were staging one of their Infrequent displays and Insisted that we hurry out before tliey quit. I tried mv best r„ enthuse over the oolumn of boiling water, but It was throwing only about fifty feet while our Yet low-stone geysers shoot up over twice that height HOMES TO It \ V MICH LIKE ANCIENT ONES. Except that many of tic !r homes to day are little houses of wood with tin roofs Tistead of the thatched grass huts of old. a Maori “whan*," or home. Is j tilth'll Mke that of their forefathers, .lust ns their mothers did before them the Maori women around Rotorua wash and cook In the boiling springs. A kindly government tuts built concrete ledges around >he pools and placed Iron gratings inside of them, but otherwise they are used as they were In the days of can nibalistn. Food Is washed and lowered In'o them In woven baskets of flax ana left there, covered by mats until the steam has thoroughly cooked it. I saw tine old dame standing with the edge of her f etj in a little stream of running water, beating her day s washing with a flat paddle. I stooped and stm k one finger in the wafer and found It unbearably hot. but the old woman an pnrenfly did not mind it. In nearby concrete pools a group of boys were taking an “oil” bath. In water ttiaf was quite warm and quite soapy to tiie touch. Near the village stands an ancient pa. or fortress*, and It was mv privilege to s<-e some of the native dances, both of war and peace, which are so Infrequent now that main tribes have abandoned them almost altogether The pa 'lands Just ns so many of them stood when the but war was fought about fifty years ago Us sides or palisades are made of stout stb ks, lashed together anti coming together at the top In the point of a V which made them difficult to scale and at intervals poles stood up above the barricade with the carved figures of human beings with gargoyle fares which the simple Maori once believed would frighten his foes. In ohlen days human ; heads would have graced the poles. I

A. GIRL MARRIES A hew Serial of Young Married Life

•CHAPTER CLXXXI. Once I hail determined tbut this was the evening to discuss the question of ailowaui'e with Jiui, I decided also tliut I'd see that uiy little drama had the proper setting. We must eat at home, not dine out with the probable interruptions of meeting people we knew or drifting to a movie. So I stopped at a luxurious market and bought a tine, thick cut of steak, two artichokes, strawberries, rich cream and a salad of French endive. Needless to say that about emptied my pocket Jim couldn't call uiy dinner “miserly." I got everything in readiness ami popped the steak onto the grill the instant I heard his key in the lock. Then l hurried on to the living room. "Hello, Anne," said Jim in Ills usual off-hand mautier. “Where do we go from here ?" "flow'd you like to stay home and dine off steak and attiehokes?’’ i asked. “Dream on," murmured Jim at the mention of his favorite fare. “No—wake up and "a h up! The steak's on the tire already.” "Good girl!" cried Jim In high good nature. "I'm sick of running around after the eats. This a fine farewell to the little old place. We move tomorrow." At this my heart thumped a tattoo against my ribs. To move tomorrow. It had come, then the sti p forward toward riches and luxury, the step away from our first home together. It had come and I wasn't ready either spiritually—or as regards m.v trunks. I sent up a little plea that my accommodatnr might be efficient and my steak tender. Ten minutes later we sat down to a delightful repast, as the soeiety journals put it when -SMI eat together instead of two. And when the last strawberry had bee.n blanketed in sugar and drowned in cream ar.d lusciously devoured, we drank our amber coffee and stretched luxuri-

INDIAN 4 DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 7,1921.

U only 17 and ha, a wonderful smile. Vi ,*, ' MBff t S? Uihl says her name In English would gs?; j j -H- -—M

Meet Wilil, the belle of Whaka. She Is only 17 and has a wonderful smile. Wihl says tier inline In English would he ” 1 raldy Cut,” hut she doesn't think it tits. She Is a skillful pot dancer, pol being the name of the little halls mode of flax covered with the inner hnrk of the cocoanut, and which are swung in rhythmic movements and circles during the dance. There are many kinds of pol dances, each of them being Intended to represent some definite thing, such as the fluttering of a bntierily, the rowing of n canoe, the soaring of a bird, and so on.

At euch corner of the fortress stands n great watch tower from which sentinels could look down upon the valleys and tetect the approach of an enemy when be still was a long ways off. The gates to the pa are so narrow that only one person could enter at a time and were adorned with the intricate carvings tor which the Maori is famous. The dancers were approaching now and It did not require much Imagination to believe that time had been set back a few decades and that these gaily garbed brown folk were the savages of their forefathers’* day. The men started off with a haka. a dunce that was both a war challenge and a ceremonial affair. Strange chnntings accompanied the movements of the body and the stamping of feet and a close observer would have discovered that almost every muscle of the body was brought into play, accompanied by horrible grim aces and the protruding of tongues which seem Inseparable from a Maori war dunce In direct contrast to this display of strength and bulk the girls staged [ml dances, graceful movements of the limbs and body to the haunting melody of a chant In a minor key, and nil the time they kept perfect rhythm with two pol balls, flax covered with the Inner hark of the cocoa nut tree, about the size of an orange, and held in the hands bymeans of short or long strings. Every pol dance has Its peculiar movements,

I \ \ The old and the new In Msoriland. ! Village meeting halt at Whnkarcwa- | simple Maori once believed vcoiili * If \ ' At the left stand Susan and Bella, j rctva, or U haka. as It Is called for frighten his foes. The fancy- and In • ..... ..I short-. At the peak of the roof ai:d tricate carving of llie Maoris Is th

t apt. Gilbert Mair of Rotorua, uho has spent sixty of his eighty years with Die Maoris, uml Is tlielr counselor, or “parent,” as they cull him. lie was a soldier In the wars which ended to IX7I, and in the day sos peace which followed he held many official positions, one of which was that of judge of the uulive land courts nt Rotorua. He believed the original Maoris were natives of India.

which are intended to represent something. For Instance, there was the but terfly dance. In which tlic fluttering of butterflies was shown in the swinging of the pots. And the canoe dance, in which the girls sat down and In perfect time pretended that they were rowing ouo of the old time war canoes. Then, too, I saw tho ceremonial with which the Maori received visitors. Although perfectly aware that company was coining, the family sat in front of

By Ann Lisle

ously, for all the world like purring cats. "And now to inter the bones and do the dishes for the last time," smiled Jim complacently. “We'll do them later. [ want to talk to you tirst," I replied. “You look darn serious. Fight with Jennie again ?’’ asked Jim, remaining good-natured even at that Idea. “No, but I am darn serious. It’s money I want to (alk about, Jim.” I said, feeling ail the old aversion toward accenting my financial dependence on him. “Money? Want as much as fifty tills 1 time?” "It Isn't what I want this time that counts, Jim. It’s what I can count on all the time.” “What you can count on? What d'you menu, Anne?" “I mean I suppose we’re partners, sort of. And this partner has to run the house and dress herself." “You’ll get all I have to give you. Surely you know that by this time, Anne,” said Jim gravely. “1 don't think I've ever begrudged you anything 1 could possibly make out to give you have I?’’ “No. Jim. you haven’t. You've been generosity itse'f. It isn’t that. But T don't want —presents. I want the right and the responsibility of handling a working share of our income.” Again Jim laughed, but a little bitterly this time. “The feminist again. Tho woman who kicked up such a row at her husband’s thinking he could—‘forbid’ her anything!" “Oh. Jim, it isn't that! .Listen and I'll explain. Only today I was in a shop and wanted to buy lace collars and cuffs to brighten up an old dress, and after I'd practically taken them I discovered that they were nine dollars, and I had only four or so in my purse."

Susan, the Maori who guided us at Rotorua and made friends of everyone In the party. Nile speaks beautiful English, and is as graciuus as a society leader. I.ike her white Misters, Susan declines to give tier age. but admits she is a grandmother. Thirty years ago she must have been a beauty.

their home until the visitors arrived. Then they intoned a chant, waved aloft green sprays in token that friendship was ever green, und solemnly rubbed noses with each visitor In turn, while at the same time they clasped bands. Kissing is unknown, or was until the white man Introduced It. The Maori of today Is living tinder the terms of the treaty of Waitangl, signed Feb. 6, 1840, by virtue of which the Maoris took the oath of allegiance to Kreat Britain and In return were promised protection and full possession of their lauds The New Zealand government docs not stteinpt to govern them except in the broadest sense. Village and tribal law still exist arid village councils of seven, elected by popular vote, say what shall and shall not be done by members of tbe tribe. Except In criminal cases, when the white courts step in, an offender Is tried before his village council and his punishment as sessed. Should he refuse to abide by If, the. case is certified to the white courts, where the accused has a chance for a n<*w trial, a privilege of which he is slow to avail himself Marriage customs are still primitive, al- . though betrothal rtf Infants is rare now. There la little courting ns we know It. The family of a hoy or girl picks out an eligible mate and makes overtures to the other family. Even if an agreement bo reached between the elders, the prospective husband and wife can decline to marry. Sometimes if the match is de-

The old and the new In Msoriland. At the left stand Susan and Delhi, two of the old guides at Rotorua; the threw girls are belles of the jiresent day. w title the child Is tho little brother of one of them. The second girl from the right Is wearing a cloak that is source now. It Is made of the feathers of the kiwi bird, which is almost extinct, and is under tlic pro. tecton of the government, because the birds are being slaughtered to provide feathers for the cloths.

sirnble from a tribal standpoint to keep together large tracts of land tho tribe of the man or woman opposing marriage will unite In a massed effort to overcome all objections. The marriage ceremony Itself is very simple* being merely a statement that the man and woman have decided to live together, in olden days elaborate rituals preceded and followed tho ceremony. There was much giving of presents and one custom was to pick out two mountains, call one a man, the

“That's a darn shame! I suppose you told the clerk to send ’em up 0. O. D.” “1 was so ashamed I never thought of that,” I gasped. “And yet you want to handle big sums!" laughed Jim, and then at sight of my face he went on seriously. 'I ll establish charges for you In two or three of the big stores, Anne. And yon Just buy what you like and send the Dills to me. Same with the house. Think I'm going to pin my wife down to nil allowance? Not me! You just get whatever you want. I’m rich now. You're entitled to tlie best. And bore’s a little small change. Let me know when It's gone.” .Tim tossed me two twenty-dollar bills and a ten. Not often had I possessed so much money at one time. But It wasn’t what I wanted. Our entire marriage seemed somehow to have slipped beyond my guidance or control. —Copyright, 1921. (To he continued.)

PUSS IN HOOTS JR.

By David Cory.

Now you remember what happened in the last story. How the wicked giantess had put a sleeping powder in the milk, which made the little bear, the monkey and the pig fall asleep. And then how she had tried to kill Puss with her big knife, and she would have if he hadn't touched h--r with his magic feather and turned her into a statue. Well, there she sat at the head of the table, a great stone figure, with tlie big knife raised in her hand. And at tho other end of the table sat the Giant himself smoking his great pipe with his feet up on a chair. But he didn’t say a word to Puss. Perhaps he was afraid lie might tie changed Into a stone image, or perhaps It was the first time in his life that h> really felt at home in hts eastie. for a little bird who has her nest just under his window told me that his wife had always ruled him with a rod of iron ami had made his life perfectly miserable ever since he had slipped the gold wed-

On watch for an enemy In one of the towers of a pa. or fortress, one of the Maori strongholds before all fighting In New Zealand ended fifty years ago. When the tribes were engaged in warfare with each other these pas were found on the highest mountain tops, where a whole tribe could live in safety, because it

other a woman, and “marry" them to signify that tho lands of the contracting parties also were united. ATTENDED COLLEGE BEFORE HE WED. No Maori man was allowed to marry until he had been through the Maori college, called the red house, where for two or three years he underwent a rigorous education In the art of warfare geneology, astronomy and memory training. As an Instance of what resulted one old chief is said to know the words and tunes of nine hundred songs. It was a custom to require that n man should have killed another In a fight before he could marry. Marriage between cousins even second cousins, always has beejj forbidden by Maori law. Since I!H>9 the government has required that a minister or qualified official either perform the marriage ceremony or. if it he celebrated according to Maori c-uatom. to he present and record it in order to protect land titles. Divorce In other days was easy, being accomplished by a separation of man and wife and an announcement of their intention to live apart. Maori morals are simple. Before mar rlage a girl is not held In contempt If she does as she pleases. After marriage the lines are strict. Nearly ten thousand Maoris attend the native and public schools. There are 119 public and twelve private schools for Maori children exclusively, all free. Ic-ssons are in English, the Maori language not being taught in the schools.

Village meeting hall at Wtuvkarewarewa. or Whaka. as It is called for short. At Ihe peak of the roof ar.d also in the carved decorations at the sides are grotesque faces which the

but In some of the schools the pupils are taught trades and farming. The young Maoris show the effects of their school > lug. They talk excellently, they spell rapidly and they are quick to learn. I was having trouble with the spelling of a Maori word and a little chap took a peudl and my notebook and iu a very clear hand wrote the name I could not get. The land treaty of 1840 has been interpreted by different courts in various ways. The liter s complain that a great deal of land which they should be allowed to keep under the treaty has been taken away from them. However, the court decisions have been nil pretty well affirmed now and the Maoris are well paid for all the land which the government gets from them. When a Maori wants to sell land to another Maori he has very little trouble making title. But

ding ring, which was as big as a bracelet. ovrr her little linger. And now I'll tell you what Puss did after lie was certain that the giantess was really turned into stone, lie t over to the little bear and touched hint with his magic feather. But oh, dear ine! The little bear didn't wake up at all. He just kept on sleeping away as peacefully as you please. And when Puss touched the monkey, and the pig. they didn't .vake up either. You see the magic feather had only the power to turn people into stone or wood, and sometimes into ashes. But it couldn't bring them out of a spell. "Goodness me!" said Puss to himself, “what shat! 1 do?” And just then, all <f a sudden, the poll parrot, who had warned him of the wicked giantess in two or three stories ago, came into the (lining room. And when she saw what was the trouble she perched herself ou the head of the stone giantess and snid : "You must find a gold star flower In the fairies’ shady deli, With it touch your friends who slumber And they'll waken from the spell.” "Show me the way,” cried Puss. “Follow tue,” said the kind parrot, and they tiptoed ol.t of the castle, for the big giant had fallen asleep by this time. Well, by and by. not so very far. Puss and the parrot came to the fairy dell, atm after looking here and there and everywhere Puss suddenly spied the little gold star flower. And as soon as be find picked it. he started back for the castle as fast as he could run. But. oh. dear rue! Just as he entered the courtyard, he saw the giant carrying his wife In his arms over to the great fountain. But the giant paid no attention to Puss. He set his big stone wife down on the pavement close to the marble fountain where the little goldfish swam about all day long, and then he sat down on a bench and smoked another pipe of tobacco. So Puss ran into the castle and touched his little friends with the gold slat flower and immediately they awoke from their deep sleep. And next time I'll tell you what they did after that.— Copyright, 1021. (To be continued.)

was virtually Impossible to take them by assault. When tho white men came, however, the pa went into the discard, because cannon balls could be used to tear to pieces the wooden palisades. Ancient pas still are to he found in many places in New Zealand.

when he wishes to sell to a white man the government courts are called upon to straighten out the title. The land court consists of one white judge and two native assistants. Sometimes as many as twenty Maori appear as claimants to a single acre of land. 1 learned of one tract of 11,000 acres which was claimed by 2.186 Maoris. The court which was called upon to give a good title to the land required a year in which to do the work. 4,000,000 At RES LEET TO MAORIS. The Maoris still have left about 4.000,000 acres of laud out of the 66,000,000 acres in all New Zealand. When a Maori parts with his land the money Is paid directly to him and he soon spends it. Government regulations provide that the Maoris cannot separate from their lands below a point where they will retain an average of fifty acres apiece. Perhaps no man iu the world knows the Maoris better than (’apt. Gilbert M.tir of Rotorua. Born in New Zealand, he has spent sixty of his eighty years with the natives, first as a soldier In the wars which ended in 1871 and in which he commanded a contingent of 500, mostly friendly Maoris, In the chase after old Te Hoot!, the most notorious of all the rebel chiefs, who was hunted so hard and fast that his forces were finally dispersed. In tha days of peace which followed Captain Mair held many official positions, not the least of which was that of Judge of tho native land court at Roturua. lie Is au adopted chief of the

simple Maori once believed would frighten his foes. The fancy and intricate carving of the Maoris Is tlie admiration of visitors from all over the world.

Maori, their confidant and counselor or ‘parent.” as they call him, and he has tremendous influence with them. I asked him about the Maori of today. “The traits of nt}’ old friends have mostly been lost. - ' he said. "The white man introduced alcohol to the Maori and even today tourists delight In supplying drink to the natives in the hope that while drunk they will give a better •show' than they otherwise would do. although there is a fine of *250 for giving a Maori liquor. The Maoris, however. are trusting, lovable folk, and it is hard not to love them, especially the girls. There is one tendency which I regtvt that the natives are losing q most charming characteristic, the ability to tell the truth. The old Maori would not lie to you. Even today if you drive him into a corner a Maori will admit it if lie has been lying and be only too glad

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of live, living in a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the readers of the Daily Times how the many present-day problems of the home ure solved bv working on Ihe budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an interesting review of their home life anil learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) Mrs. Hooper, Auntie Belle and the children were gathered in the living room for afternoon tea. The two women were busy hemstitching Roger's new handkerchiefs while Helen busied herself with the tea things. “Making these handkerchiefs seems rather foolish to me.” volunteered Auntie Belle. "Isn't it cheaper to buy them all ready made?" “Oh, I don’t suppose 1 save much," said Mrs. Hooper, "as far as the outlay of money is concerned. I could have bought Roger two dollars' worth of handkerchiefs when I was in town the other day that would have done very well, but they would certainly not have been of this good quality of iinen. which with care last ever so long. You an 1 I are both foml of doing hemstitching and we might as 'well put our energy into handkerehi. fs this afternoon as into embroidering chair covers the way we used to do. “Well, I suppose you are right," agreed Auntie Belle biting off her thread a Hit vindictively, “but tin se lock altogether too fine for a schoolboy.” "Why I like nice things, Auntie Beile." protested Roger. "I’d hate Just an old rag f.>r a pocket handkerchief." ' "ThaUs Just it Belle," said Mrs. Hooper coming to Roger's defense, "there is nothing that means so much to a young man as a knowledge of the importance of clean, good looking linen. It has been known to almost make or mar his start in life. I want Roger to grow accustomed to the look and of things that have quality in the man r of his clothes, quite as much as r do Helen.” “Well, ion alwa.vs were queer about *''■ :M. a " '-f "iii-lied her -dst<-r-ln-

to tell tho facts. His conscience seems to hurt him If ho tells an nntrnth and. at best, ho Is such a poor liar that you can detect It almost at once.” HE THTNKS INDIA ORIGINAL HOME. Captain Malr leans to tho belief tlart tbe original Maoris were native of India j that gradually they drifted lDto tho Pacific and that other Polymoslan races are merely offshoots of tho main body ; which came to New Zealand and that ; they found there a large tribe of meek, ! Inoffensive savages whom they first conquered, then assimilated. He points out that the Maori excels In the water; that he is a sailor and not a landsman and J that, of all savage races, the Maori of ; old best understood navigation and coaid j guide his canoe by the stars and by th* I sun. Only such a people could haro , made In safety the rough voyage of many months to New Zealand In frail I outrigger canoes, as did the original ■ settlers. The Maori never was skillful In ! tracking or In woodcraft, as were the American Indians. He made paths' , through the bush and undergrowth and left them only In emergency. His habits were slmplo and in a land like New Zealand where nature did not supply him with a great variety of wild fruits or vegetable foods, his diet was very plain. That he won through In spite of his lack of ability to make the most of tbos* things which were at hand was reraark- ' able. Among the old customs which remain, the ceremonies are most interesting. A funeral 1* a prolonged affair of several days in which the mourners gather about j the home of the dead, whose family must : feed them. It is customary also to bring to the funeral all of the gifts which had i bpen given by the deceased to friends or relatives and, after carefully wrapping them in mats to show they had been ’ treasured, to pdle them about the body. Later the relatives return them to the I owners and after that the gifts are theirs to do with as they please. To give away a present during the lifetime of the donor—-in other words, to Indicate that it was not appreciated—is unthought of. Quito often I have heard a man say In the United States that he was glad that he had not married his wife's family when he wed. A Maori cannot say that, for, in effect, he does that very thing. His wife’s relatives are at all times privileged to make themselves at home in his house and he Is under obligations to feed them. It Is an expensive thine and I Imagine that a Maori, working for about $3 a day for about two days a week, in the government forest service, thinks the same thing. INTELLIGENT AS A RACE. That the Maoris are Intelligent people is quite evident from the success of many of them, and they are quite proud of the fact that they are represented by four elective members of the Dominion House of Representatives and two appointive members of the Legislative Connell, which corresponds to our Senate. Several members of the race have risen to high positions. One. Sir James Carroll, has been knighted and made a member of the Dominion cabinet, and others have held high offices in tbe government. They are well represented among the professions and several have become millionaires in agricultural pursuits. llow far the new generation, educated in the public schools and instilled with the high ideals of the white man, will go is hard to forecast. For those who desire to go farther than the ordinary school, the government maintains six large boarding schools, for which scholarships are issued and are much sought after. Before we parted I obtained from Susan one of the native skirts, made from flax and requiring long and tedious work to produce. The skirt consists of pendants of flax, iu which the hemp is ravelled .out in sections and dyed with mud which has been cooked with the leaves of a poisonous tree. Were the curse of drink eliminated altogether the Maori probably would hold his own as New Zealand progresses. As it is, Maori men are permitted to have drinks served over the bar but cannot take a bottle home. The women supposedly cannot have a drink at all. as they are not permitted In the bars. But the “scallwag,” or New Zealand bootlogger, Is ever nt work, and for a few dollars will sell to the natives a rile concoction almost ns terrible in Its effects as wood alcohol. The Maori language is not harsh, neither is it liquid or musical, as spoken by those who know how, but it Is a stumbling block for the beginner. Every vowel must be sounded in order to pronounce words correctly, every word ends in a vowel and no consonants ever come together. Names of places and things often are long and involved, having been given to places or objects as the result of the most trivial incidents. The natives themselves have made no effort to preserve original spelling or pronunciation and tliey copy the white man’s methods of shortening lengthy words, of misspelling them and mispronouncing them. 1 am sorry that I am leaving the Maoris. It would be a pleasure to stay among them, to listen to their beautiful love stories and legends Indefinitely, and I am sure that nowhere in the world would It be possible to find a race of natives that would not grow tiresome long before one would be willing to tear himself away from the Maoris.

!aw, putting down her sewing to take her tea, “at any rate 1 don't see how Roger could have anything but respect for handkerchiefs that he sees us putting so much work into." “Os course I do, Aunt Belle," said Roger preparing to leave the group for a game of baseball before dinner. "Do you suppose I'd mop up the ink or wipe out my dusty desk with, one of these?" “You see.” added Mrs. Hooper triumphantly, as Helen and Roger raced down the stairs, “it really makes the children careful to give them nice things." “But, you are always economising so, 1 don't see how you can afford what you call nice things," argued Belle, resuming her sewing. "By nice tilings I don’t mejin extravagantly expensive ones," continued Mrs. Hooper, “and it is only because 1 do economize about everything in general that I can manage, to give the children little tilings that insidiously suggest refinement to them.” "I suppose your neighbors think you are snobby, don’t they?" inquired Bello. “They are divided in their approval of me, I believe," smiled Mrs. Hooper, “hut they always come to Heury or me if they are in trouble or are faced with an emergency that they can't handle." “Well, I don't know as I'd be so set up oter that," was her sister-in-law's sarcastic remark. Mrs. Hooper's menu for Friday is: BREAKFAST. Apple Same Cereal Griddle Cakes and Syrup Coffee. LUNCHEON. Bean Soup Lettuce Sandwiches Apple Cake Cocoa. DINNER. Cream of Celery Soup Baked Stuffed Smelts Vegetable Salad Baked Potatoes Sliced Oranges and Bananas. —Copyright, 1921.