Show SOURDOUGH LEAVES NORTH FOR HIS I CHIlDREN Renounces Luring Land to to V 1 School Brood Awed by City Lire Life Xi BY LEE J J. J lN E. E r- r A. A Staff Correspondent ent J Wah L Nov S. S An S.-An An amazed n r homesIck flock of ot five hat halt H n I landed ed here from Point I 1 mn Alaska on their way to someI some I I 0 inland place whore the call of ot f M cannot annot reach them J ivio Q wish my youngsters to grow grows I s to be le trappers rs and shanty e S. S James x U L. Heed hunter prospector e herder who with tJ his native J tJ Land their brood came back ac to the tho i. i l' l f. f white whito man after twenty twenty- years twenty cars Reed is student of ot fn ith J. J Far North a a. natural tural science a 0 reader rader of good books S S iman who has haa kept alive his Ills love for the Mho better things of civilization while e a 0 family in the wilderness ALL BEWILDERED Ho Ibis is turning his hla back on the life Ufe that has Jias laS claimed him since youth for the sake of 2 Qt giving his children the best education obtainable Reed Hoed acted dazed and lost as ashe he e tried to steer his charges through t Seattle traffic It U is easier he ho says to toS S handle bandle le a 0 kyak in ice and surf and safer Harrt pavements hurt hurl tho Urn feet fett of or the dusky ri rid Reed d youngsters o Mukluks were I changed for shoes and new strange and I pungent dishes were set flet before th th taciturn tad taci turn mother and tho the four tour older children One terrible night of ot noise in III a 11 town hotel drove e the Reed tam family 11 to dis die traction They could not sleep they lay In dread of calamity c. So 0 Reed bash bashfully CullY mado made his way to the University of Washington Wash Wash- ington where a an old acquaintance nce of the tho gold rush days das Nathan e is caretaker of the museum us USE SLEEPING flAGS Mrs M. M R Flahaut secretary of the museum mado made arrangements for the Reed family to sleep in an unused part art artof of the tho buildings s Papa Reed spread out sleeping bags and the children cuddled up in a warm heap as they have done dono many times on the trail and forgot their weariness and i nervousness Their homesickness was appeased appeased appeased ap- ap by the exhibit of Eskimo relics and utensils which they were permitted to handle The Reed children except the baby who whorl is nine nire months old all speak read and I write rl English sl thanks to the government m I school yet their h father h using a somewhat somewhat some some- somei i what 1 bookish Y s speech e was su sometimes e mS at I loss for some ome simple English word GIVES THEM CHANCE I I have llave relatives In Iowa IOl and I am doing to try to settle down there and educate my family Y Reed explained Our il reindeer I r herd is flourishing ad people have told mo roe I should rear ml mj sons to 10 tobo tobo bo be herdsmen But I 1 think they should at least have hao a choice in the matter The Reed children wear overcoats of reindeer skin with natural beaver ver collars col col- col- col lars They eYan are aro re reb carrying a largo large stock of ivory and b- b bead trinkets I I ts to St their il strange cousins who live where there la is lano no sea and where dogs do not work for fora a 0 living I |