Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — THE NEW INDIAN FAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW INDIAN FAD.

Artistic Stage Women Make Barbaric Costumes the Fashion. Two clever women of the stage. Miss Mary Garden, the prima donna, and Miss Ethel Wynne Matthison. the actress who appears in “The Arrow Maker,” have succeeded in so adapting the inharmonies of the redskin costume that they appeal to the eye of the paleface. In both these plays the pic-

turesque possibilities of Indian life are made the most of. Not only are the costumes singularly pleasing and graceful, but the stage fittings are so artistic as to insure Indian decorations becoming a fad. Indian baskets, robes. Indian ’pottery, tomahawks, quivers, bunches of arrows, beadwork, feather headdresses, all may be made to play 8 part in designing an Indian decoration. A well known literary woman whose husbands business takes him frequently through the west and into the reservation country has had her hall fixed up with the various Indian souvenirs which he has gathered. Recently she gave an Indian luncheon in which a miniature tepee made of bark was set on a b;/nk of moss in the center of the table. Over it vines were trailed, and the edge was set off with a rather flat arrangement of low growing ferns. The place cards and souvenirs carried out the Indian idea.

MISS MARY GARDEN AS NATOMA.