Show TAMING HUSBANDS IN ALASKA curious cut long methods adopted in settling family and neighborhood quarrels alaskan women sal said judge who was for five years united states state s commissioner at alaska to a washington star representative have a way of bringing their hua bands to time which is very effective they do not fling flatirons flat irons and rolling pins or give catain curtain lectures but retire kireto to a corner neglect their household duties and sulk refusing to say a word A few days of this treatment generally ariu brings s the husband around the women in alaska also have an odd way of quarreling they do not pull hair or resort to fisticuffs but after having given each other a severe tongue longue lashing they retire to their homes alaskans Ala are divided up into families such as the bear crow and deer families these families take cognizance of quarrels and feuds result af after ter the quarrel mrs bear will retire to her house tear up her clothing and two or three blankets and then send word to mrs eagle her enemy it thereupon becomes incumbent upon mrs eagle to destroy a greater amount of clothing and more blankets of her hd r own than mrs bear by pursuing this peculiar process she evens things up in the quarrel if she did not do so she would be disgraced in the eyes her relatives and opposite tribes the tha women are great traders carry tho purse and manage things generally II if the husband makes a bad bargain in trading his bis wife ridicules him sa i J |