Show ANt AND INDIANS The following curious mid lIns tory IH Is told by the Kansas City Jour Journal Journal nal naIl The Tho teacher nt at the tho Il ned fled d Storo has n it S complaint to Ii mako her hor pupil The rho lied neel Store StaN Is ii an In Indian trading post as na old as Fort Fart Sill and the child children children ren who live there have havo grown up 1111 at nt tending tho the mission school with the tha Indian children and associating with them in their play piny As Aim u n result tho the whIte children nave have learned d the IndiAn language wear gaudy sashes paint their faces and nM put feathers In their hair They shoot shoo arrows liB as writ well as RA young bucks They The are now attending their first district school and though holding high regard for tor authority re to fuse tuse to be bo taught rut U civilised civilized people They read ad their lessons aloud In study and Insist on wearing feathers soulless lI paint and brass brais bra earrings and nd finger rings In tho the school room They Jabber halt half tho the time limos in Comanche and Rud 11 1 contin cantin ue to run tun away to use the mission school where the Indian children mo are Tho Time teacher has hAI resolved re that educating nn art unbroken white child In the Indian inn image U is I quite as onerous as ns educating the real resti Indian If It f this proves rou anything nt nl all It proves that In childhood tho the distance between barbarism and civilisation Is la not hot very vory great There Is Ia ho no Impassible gulch between erl them It Is almost easier to pass from the level le 1 ot at the white willie to that I of at limo tho Indian than to puss pats In tim the opposite opposite site direction There Thoro Is I than thUn th n nothing Imp In the supposition that the tha Indians Indiana oto aso tho the descendants of ot n it 1 once oneo highly civilized people oo lo What changes cannot centuries of ot savagery work It If time the tendency I In children Is II I as ass Indicated In n the story from Red fled Store |