People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — RED GIRLS IN BLOOMERS. [ARTICLE]

RED GIRLS IN BLOOMERS.

Squaws Take Up the New Woman Idea-oi Their Paleface Sisters. A band of 15 or 20 North Carolina fall blood Cherokee Indians passed through Mansfield, Mo., the other day en route to the Indian Territory, where they expect to spend the winter visiting among their western brothers and in trying to induce some friendly tribe to sell them .a body of land that they can hold in oommon, as they have become dissatisfied with their allotments back east and desire a change. Some of the red men were afoot, some on ponies and others on bicycles. A novel feature of the bicycle brigade was two old squaws, one in the very latest out bloomers, and the other wearing only a breechcibth. Each carried a little black eyed papoose strapped strongly to its mother’s back, and although the thermometer was hovering between the freezing and zero mark it had no apparent effect upon their good nature, for all the while the little fellows were busily jabbering at each other in their native tongue.—Kansas City Times. The crown of Rudolpn li, bhlefly remarkable for the lavisbness with whioh it is adorned with uncut diamonds and other jewels, is preserved in the imperial trsaßur^honseat^yiemia.