| Show GRATITUDE OF A SQUAW anxiety while or an woman to A woman on the west side whose early predilections created a prejudice against indians is now a friend of the decaying race it came about in a pretty way says the chicago time and alie incident lias also a sorrowful tinge A sioux indian and his squaw whom alic woman s husband had known out west were returning from europe where they had been as attaches of buffalo bill s wild west when they came to chicago they stopped over a day and bunted up the paleface whom they biad known out west lie hired a carriage and took them out to his home which surprised his wife not a little and there they were entertained at dinner the squaw spoke no language but her own her man knew enough english to make himself understood both were in their visiting colors aliey like the blue points and oysters but when the roast beef wo iian was brought on the eyes of the squaw bulged out and slie clapped her hands she devoured it slice by slice and in a manner calculated to shock the wife of the paleface alter dinner the squaw sang for the paleface woman and her papooses oses to then through her man she haal the paleface woman take off her shoes and stand on a sheet of paper the squaw toola a bit of pencil and drew the shape of the feet the squads squaws man informed alic paleface woman that she would make and send her a pair of split bead moccasins from the tepee as soon as they could be made the indians went away eliat westward bound and months passed by the west side wife playfully chided her husband about his lavish entertainment of the reds and mock gratitude he said wait in a year from the time of the visit a delivered to the house it was opened and there were the split bead moccasins made by the squaw there also was the information eliat she had died about the time the moccasins were completed in a crude sort of way but all the more tender on account of its simplicity the indian explained eliat his squaw would have sent alie moccasins sooner but she had been sick and her work had been delayed and that she was afraid she would not live to keep her word to the paleface woman who had entertained her with such good wo haw there were some tender words spoken in the home of the west side paleface eliat night and even now when the wife of alie paleface tells the incident there is a slight in the lips and a moisture about the eyes |
