Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 304, 9 September 1910 — Page 3

ME RICHMOND PAIAADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1910. PAGIlTZmES

mmw lives WITH PIMA INDIANS

Dr. Nelson D. Brayton Says These Indians Are True Children of Southwest. AGENCY AT PHOENIX, ARIZ.

ARE MODEL INDIANS, INDUSTRIOUS, PRIMITIVE AND PEACEABLE HAD SYSTEM OP IRRIGATION SCO YEARS AGO. Indianapolis, Sept. 9. Dr. Nelson D. Brayton of tola city. is here on vacation from his duties as physician at the Pima Indian agency near Phoenix, Aril. "The Pimai," said the doctor, who Is evidently in accord with tho red men with whom he has been associated for about a year, "are the true children of the desert, while the other tribes In Arizona the Apaches and the Navajos have been driven Into their present haunts by the advance of civilization. Including the Yuma tribes, there are about eight thousand of these peaceful, agricultural Indians In the valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers, which they and their ancestors Inhabited centuries before the advent of the white men. This racial type suggests an origin like to that of the Japanese. Perhaps they came over from Asia, crossing the eBring strait to Aalaska and then moving south, these Indians remaining as a remnant of the great body that continued south to Mexico. "In prehistoric times. It Is said, these Arizona Indians dwelt in pueblos village! made of cement and adobe. Their home were often three stories high, and remains of these anrlent villages are scattered all through the Salt river valley. The ruins of this ancient architecture shows a knowledge of reinforcing concrete. The floors and ceilings of the houses were made of native material called caliche, a kind of gypsum, reinforced by pine timbers brought from the mountain ranges, the nearest of which are at least one hundred miles away. Anelent Canal Still In Use. MtCavv" was taken by these old settlers from the rlvera by means of large canals and distributed by an extensive system of ditches. One of these old canals Is In uan today by the United States government In the irrigation of the Pima reservation. This canal Is fifteen feet deep, thirty feet wide and tea miles long. In the irrigation plan of the government at the present time for these Indians recouita has been had to an extension of the 14 prehistoric ditches. - "The Plmas have always beo agriculturists who have tried to live at poace with their neighbors. Originally they lived 'on mesqulte beans, corn and melons, but at the advent of the whites they began the cultivation of wheat and now grow about two million bushels of wheat a year, much of which they sell at Phoenix. They employ primitive methods of cutting and thrashing their grain, men and women using sickles In cutting it, and they thrash It out by means of the hoofs of horses and cattle. It is cleaned and rondered fit for use by throwing it Into the air from willow baskets, which the women are proficient in making. They grind their corn and wheat In metates, that Is between grinding atones. Their corn Is usually made into porridge. "The Pi mas are model Indians. They are peaceful and have assisted the United 8tates government in its warfare against the Apaches. The Apaches are warlike, given to gambling and have a fondness for bright colors In tbelr attire. The Plmas, on the other hand, tend to very aohber colors. There are about ten thousand Navajos in Arizona. They are In the northeast part of the territory, east of the region of the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert They are peaceful and Industrious, but are great gamblers. They make the famous Navajo blankets and one nation of the Navajos. the Hopl. makes the finest brand of Indian pottery on this continent"

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Boston Girl Stirs Social World by Athletic Stunts Goes Swimming in Mermaid Costume, , Wears Trousers, Boys' Coats and Collars and Even Plays Baseball.

Boston, Sept 9. If there is anything In the line of athletics that Miss Eleanor A. Sears, of the Boston society set, cannot do. her friends would like to know about it Here are a few of the stunts she does: Gets up at S o'clock in the morning and swims a couple of miles. . Plays tennis four hours at a stretch. Goes forty-five holes of golf in a day. Jumps in automobiles on the fly. - Rides horseback astride in trousers. Drives four-in-hand and tandem and plays polo. Wears boys' coats and collars and walks with a Harvard stride. Plays a game or two of baseball in a week and slides to the bases. Puts on corduroy trousers and boots and walks sixty-five miles at least once a month. . Wears mermaid's costume when swimming. Perhaps the greatest shock the extraordinary Miss Sears gave to Back bay aristocracy was when she discovered that she ought to wear trousers. One day she came riding into the polo grounds at Burllngame, Cal.. in riding breeches and a cutaway coat of thoroughly masculine style. A famous team of polo players from England had been visiting Burllngame, and Miss Sears wanted to play. "Come on, you fellows; let's have a practice game," she called to some men who were riding about the field. The first man she addressed happened to be Major Rotharan. of the English team. He stopped in amazement "Another of those extraordinary American girls." he thought to himself. "Ah, well; ah, Miss." stuttered the major. "I hardly know what to say, Tell me what to say. Gill," he continued, turning to another member of the English team. H. A. Gill. Gill hardly knew what to say either, and, after a glance of admiration at Miss Sear's breeches, he rode away. Then John Lawson. the manager of

the Burllngame team, told Miss Sears that she could not play. "Why can't I play, Mr. Lawson? she shouted. "I can play as well as any of you. "No, no; we would be afraid of hurting you. Miss Sears. She had nothing to do but stay off the field. She was very Indignant, and could hardly control herself as she commented on the men players. "I suppose they think that I can't do anything because I am a girl. Wei, I can play as well as any of them, and better than most of them. Gee! Look at that duffer! If I couldn't play better than that I should want to wear skirts. "Will you tell me why a girl shouldn't wear anything she pleases, as long as It's decent? No man has a right to compel us to wear a dress that endangers our lives and prevents us from doing anything useful, and makes it impossible for us to be healthy. "And then, why should anybody tell women they mustn't play polo. It's simply Impossible to play it in a sidesaddle, but riding astride they can do it perfectly well." So Miss Sears went right on wearing her trousers. Last season she organized walking clubs of women and girls at Burlingamt. Her strong lieutenant was Miss Jennie Crocker, heiress to millions, who appeared in the same daring clothes that Miss Sears affected. Shortly they had many converts, and the California roads were dotted with

"Sears clubs," all composed of jaunty charming, unembarrassed young women in tight-fitting knickerbockers and loose coats that came down halt way

to the knee.

. It is Mise Sears' greatest disappointment that she has not yet been able

to organize these walking clubs in Boston, but soon she may succeed, and the classic streets of the Hub will be shocked by young women in the clothes their brothers used to wear.

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Kansas Biddies Meet the Trolley Cars Regularly and Get Their Reward.

GRASSHOPPERS THE BAIT

Topeka, Nan., Sept 9. An unusual sight In Kansas towns these days is hundreds of chickens running and flying, and many squawks and cackles, to meet incoming passenger trains, or rather trolley trains. At every station where trolley cars are operated the chickens have learned to hike with all their might to the depot whenever they hear the sharp blast of the siren whistle of the motorcars. Chickens usually run away from trainb, but they do run for the trolley cars. Traveling men and the newspapers of the small towns are still talking about the unusual sight The chickens are as regular about meeting the cars as the driver and the postmanster. There is something in it for them. Every old hen, pullet or rooster that is not penned up answers the call of the motorcar siren. In some of the large villages the chickens are becoming a nuisance to passengers, as the hiddies hike across the platforms, tripping the passengers, fluttering and squawking as they hurry to meet the front end of the motorcar. What's the answer? 1 Grasshoppers, just plain, old, ordinary, tobacco chewing, green, red, yel

low, streaked, striped and spotted grasshoppers. Millions of them in a. bunch, anil fat and juicy from feed

ing in Kansas corn and wheat fields. All of the motorcars have fenders

of a big scooplike pattern. As the

cars go hiking through the country these fenders gather up thousands of grasshoppers that are struck by the car as . they are . flying across the tracks. - Going the six or seven miles between stations a motorcar will gather from one to two bushels of grasshoppers. . They are the porterhouse and sirloin suts of the hopper family, and they make a very delectable repast for the chickens. The chickens cannot catch very many of them in the fields and gardens, as the hoppers are quick and are able to make long flights. But the chickens have learned of the thousands of grasshoppers on the motorcar fenders, and they never overlook any bets when it comes to eating. The grasshoppers are not any more plentiful this year than in formen years, but the chickens never had a way of catching them as they have this year, this being the first season of the motorcars on most of the lines. The chickens never mistake the whistle of the freight trains for that of the siren of the motorcars.

- London's Dig Bell. "Big Beu." the belt in Westminster clock .tower, Londou. is known the world over, but it is iucerrectly named. Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commissioner of works, during whose tenure of office the clock was erected, had far less to do with it than Lord Grimthorpe. who designed it and was the moving spirit in its erection. In justice to him it should be known as "Old Grim."

CLOTHES SHOCKED

Shelby ville, Ind, Sept 9. An elec

trical storm visited Boggstown last

night Mrs. Johnson had hung newly washed clothes on a wire line in the

kitchen and they lino. Two boles

roof, but no one

cows were killed.

said an Irishman. "What a

choir sight ft would be if all the pie la the world were bllndr

were lwur 1 X tbe were toraVl the rata In inrrl I 'sasI..1 'v

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