Show mani A AP P in rile by jamn james Vi vernal 1 I 1 A at N U I 1 iia deft V f 1 ul 0 al A c I 1 N without cosea a are not usually considered beautiful yet those of the older generation of eald asu mog mile 1 jn alaska are tn in tensely t ely proud plead if their up ap bearance pe arance has been thus changed it la is to them th 0 in a continual reminder of the fact t that at they wpm tile belles bees of the village slid and their to mutilated if wild faces advertise AN this distinction to all 11 who see them the men ot of tile the eskins eskimo tribe it have ftc few bad habits says mys dr john A mendota marquis secretary tamy of the board of H home missions iele of the presbyterian Presby teMan church in the U S A who he recently really returned to ad from nn an exten she aix months montha T trip to alaska but they are lion laor chastely jealous of their women woman this thin jealousy we waa formerly formally so an strong met b before fam they learned better fail fathers would bite bills off their pretty pettit daughters a noses 1 in order older to keep them I 1 in the family longer but more often an eskimo 0 after marrying would bit bite off the boom of hla his beautiful wife so an that chat she ehe would no longer have ut attraction lotion tor for other men this nose biting was practiced f fre quenta Y not because the eskimos eskimo the them gudeas were so an mollen about walking off with their neighbors wives but because men ascal from other come would happen long along and ad be unduly at reacted according to dr marquis there them are rally many old women oman today who walk mail about hol honored lored and ad respected and ad me im proud as queen because their noses mam are no more yet the custom stem 1 Is dab dying out at and ad Is in not or now me 0 80 widely practiced probably bar because the mod it ern am minum idea Is also penetrating alaska and the younger belles miss objection to having their rouses noses abare des despite P ite the facts fact however that european p ance ARA and american influence have made borne e ll changes unies the life and lan ill guage games of the t he eskimo enill remain very much eifle those of the stone stame age ge 1 in habitants of europe of who whom MAY are am bald it to be the last surviving livi living representatives one pecullar peculiar feature noted by dr marquia mandel was man that the eskimos eskimo while living in groups or vill villages ilges rp ap pear to have no chiefs chief or rulers raise for the hunt act they elect a chief who I 1 la chief for or the hunt bent and ith ithe when the that 1 over his bis authority ends no until ill the next hunt this presbyterian secretary noted in one village hom however meer alf hem alaska an eskimo who seemed to hae he an a ua usual degree of authority this was aspect especially ally unusual because the man in question was waa a cripple and was waa con fined filed continuously to a beat in a rough much pled which auth had been constructed for far vinall mm re his name waa as joe as So Sokon kondk lk dr marquis teamed learned and he ha was a chool beat teacher inn sti gating it we waa found that be h bad a remarkable story some se yearn year previous he had been taken knon down with R serious illness ill in which of the filthy condl tiona surrounding outstanding the homes of the Es eskimos Ulmon he w went e of through much suffering A As a par part of his afflic affliction tim he butte suffered it a an 71 affection of 1 the spine oil which ten almost prevented presented him froni from moving an anner ainer lean icim red missionary laim y lear learnt cull d of his condl till old and although when he arched the sufferer finiff suffer pr had bad broken out with loath leeth tome anum acres abrea because or of infection and ad lack of proper car care this missionary at once took him in charge led and began to treat ill him dally daily far or a year or more in this abolon missionary carefully fully bathed the sores bores with mith ointment and tended joe while he gave medical attention he be taught who when finally the loathsome disease had been gotten rid rd of could nt t move his legs as an they were thin dou blid up under hlib film in a position from ahia they could not be extricated not idt dismayed however the mission ary h had it built tor for him a sled mitten fitted ills hh condition on this sled and train from it ft joe jo determined to teach his people dally daily he may he be seen 1 in the village of Kl valina bump ing along on mi I 1 the h a tough rough sled led pulled either cither by flogs or by some same willing hands bands and daily he be teacher at the school house giving to the ot of the village train from his store ot of know knowledge led ae teamed learned from the missionary at the school house his sled Is bumped up the steps to the main floor door and along the main moor floor to tile the plot plat tarm form to which it la JS lifted gifted and from which he teaches talent at the close of the session lou the sufferer and hl hla is sled are again bumped donn domn the steps and off to hla his home but joe bolonik So lonik does not mind he Is teaching his people and ad he is profoundly grateful for what ana we done dean far or him tl though it might be suspected he would bemoan his bis fate he be does not and Is continually a as cheerful as his he brothers brother in more mom for monte circum stances although the evil eskimo to towns have be no chiefs Ilva 11 llna cornea comes nearer to hes hav ing a head bond than ihan any other village and that leader Is none other thata that the at joe joe 1 Is also the hunt beat lender der ot of his bis village tillage and 1 Is annually dually elected to that honor bomor he Is a splendid lender leader and ad holds so an a excellent limit record tor for with joe soho sk ik alc in the lead the people know their hunt built will bo be and he fee has not at yet failed them flo from his seat in the sled filed on the deck of a ship he be has brought doun doon and continues to bring down many a met nalria or polar bear afflicted as he Is in joe can an only mily sleep by dropping his head forward on his knees I 1 ahat hat and the movement of his head and ad arms la Is the only muI buiar muscular Ar motion allowed him since the disease claimed him dr marquis Maroti Js returned with other in A 0 if V V W stories stollen of the FM ance me concern concerning ing their customs mid ad their condition he especially stressed the terrific havoc wrought by the jeffia influenza at IT epidemic of last year 1 in which nearly mai half of the akine population of al alka alaska ka I 1 vats its wiped out of they al bened seemed to have oo an r resistance to a ill the A bald the presbyterian cost Y ab probably y their dirty con of living mill and lome homec helped 1 to spread the disease and undoubtedly their babit of herding to together ther and ad not at separating the ill well wel from go tle it sick a m counted ill ia large ral measure mint tor far the in ba real roads do alde it it had not been for far government m regulation lation which p prevented any uy traded e going no to the infected if districts t A OP fr from ill the infected districts district to the eskimo ealine it t la Is probable that there ther would have h as her been verv nerv few left ft of this race at the end it 1 of I the ill epidemic lat jois t icer ear it declared D dr marqula one pei ullar ibur custom noted b be the presbyterian As daly iTy was the th ersk eskimo hohlt of building fe fences 1 10 of al whole whale ban benei about their cema cemeteries teres it 1 t yes used to be that mho whalebone labone was an reater regarded Ild 1 als very epry precious but be because mie ot of 1 the I many a im successful tates that ire am now w being used it has halt lost last muth of 0 it its jancef clad value ft A hat but peculiar prop property rt at I 1 inches to the whalebone tant lt it should buld be such an ex excellent ellent mat material for or aeme a know musa tery fare fences is not let known unless the tb ity of other material makes it ita us use cheap old and D dr marquis with his hia dough daughter far from new york city made castle nn an tin unsuccessful successful attempt to reach point barrow alaska the mut northernmost J I 1 0 am t in mission a at cal station in the IN world a r id opera operated t d ly by the presbyterian church |