| Show indian wives among the northwestern tribes or of indians innocence Is nal marked og the tie girls as 88 their color the imbres sion bion that the red maiden does not entertain enis anis a high standard of 0 morality is iii an error for she is taught as an other girls are and grows grown up with voll ideas of the responsibilities of life still a firm resolution to da machargo chargo them educated in ia the faith that she wan ordained to work the trains horack herself to undergo hard labor and ut tit sixteen years yeara of 0 ago age lii Is and strong brave A galust fatigue fitti guo and a perfect housewife tilio way may not now badland no was of 0 cleanliness but bat the ebe takes not a little pride in ia her personal person nl appearance find and in ia the arrangement of her loilo she displays some crude ideas of taste and a cartain amount of neatness neat nena 11 II she marries a white man she eho makes him a good wife rile as long bi as tha she lives lire with him nia ilia lome Is ia her tola sole comfort and III bai conict coci ct let her ambit ambition ioa of hlin him and for him still ami makes maien it tier her study to please him and have bavo his him to re and love lova her she in ia MCI him I 1 in a superior race unil mud by her dignity and do devotion endears herself to liim him a aad ltd struggles ruggles tt to make bike lim him happy at the agencies on tho the upper frontier thousands of raw men are ara employed und and it is ia not an aa exaggeration to say may that the in majority bority of them have indian wives audline and liva happily ihen anra not inot ought bought after by tho the lens toi for the tha indian gi girla Is custom in ia to remain quiet until tha the marriage contract is ii mado made and the marriage arriaga ta portion paid over the husband must have the dowry willi which lie ho mast invest invent lis projected mother in law before tho cere ceremony takes plane place the process la is a little out of the usual run ran ucil arld a description may be of interest the bridegroom must bo be well known to ia the tribe before lie he can hope to win a wife vil list her people want to thoroughly understand him and kno know w if 1 ho he can support loot only hir ber but bat also lier her relatives in ia the event of A pl pinch lie he must mint be a kind hearted man W with i alth ft temper warr warran antell teil to keep in any domes tio climate I 1 bull and he ha most have a good lodge and at least liuk half a dozen horses it he be anil and have all these he be ean can a wooing go selecting the lady le he makes hakea application to hor her mother rao and at u council the price is ia fix fixed ed upon if the ilia girl bo be especially pretty her mother will demand a gun two horses and a lot of provisions provi aiona blankets and cloth A gun in valued at 50 a horse horo at 20 aad he be mast furnish farnish material to bring tho the amount up to from to then rhon he a it tries tu to beat the dome down don andia he isacc eeds he knows there la is some teases for letting the tha girl go it not lio be understands he is making a good chilov the courtship is left ent entirely izely to the mother she blie comuni communicates cates the intelligence to the bridle bride elect oll who dutifully beta acts about P preparing r eving the lodge for tho the nuptials e A lives anil and friends congregate forra form a C circle pound a drum and nj have a feast at tho the conclusion of which thu the man and tho the girl stand up A blanket is thrown over their heads head under sunder which the they exchange vows of fidelity after w which atch tho the mother bloamer them and the ceremony is complete bat it tares fares badly with a taw man who jillena plentifully itally stocks blocks hla his wedding wadding lodge 11 ula wile will uve away everything b he a gives her and stores intended to lost last a mouth month will dioag disappear in an hour ue he if he lie be celled calle vear cautious cautions will give her barely enough to oat until he bo teas teaches ii as economy a lesson which once learned learne ashe she never forgets for some time after the newly made relatives haunt the happy lodge demanding that chilt they bo be feasted and cited tor for woo unto onto lim bim who in the slightest Bligh A firm refusal wall persevered in is all that will save lim a life of misery according to prairie law it its ia diar disreputable P ill a ble in a white maut man to she abandon n a 0 0 his hia dusky wife until she liua has grown grow a 1 too 0 o old to work for him ahon then he I 1 m ny n ay iy y send band het her back to her tribe if ha BO elect the aue obligation u upon pon the wife is different she bhe may no not t desert her chadband for another white man but sho she way may leave him bim tor for an indian who wants to marr marry Y her provided provi deil she fhe have no child children rev if a squaw desires to abandon her ber line bus band the indian of her choice must mast pay back the tha price originally paid to her mother ile he may abate io BO jot or tittle and it is la in beobi payment that the divorce is preferred sue she then bo become a single womac tommu free fre to marry but anthe alle cannot live in the via vicinity city inhabited by her former hansban J she mo I 1 move away with her bar new venture such divorces are not it is ia a thing tiling for a squaw to perfectly adopt herself to her white lius band ue he muy be of the hind liest disposition but hla his waya ays aie not her ways and though the ebo bt ruggles with all her strength to drw closer to him and try to make her ber existence exist enoa a part of his big the she cannot make him one of her bar klamand kind and she ebe i lifts rifts awa away from him the birth lf if hild r on infects her thoughts into a now channel olion nol mud and lessens the chasm between thew them but bat without bo be his bad but bat little hope of f keeping lie her bar to himself sooner or lator liter she w will ill find hir her 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