Show indian beauty was model for sculptors wass ws ss falling star declares to have been a perfect specimen Spec men of the aboriginal american had wonderful erful ability in ministering to the sica N the new york mine aluse urn um of natural history is IR i t bust by caspar mayor layer the sculptor of mrs airs annie fuller bet ter known as falling tar the in dian than woman whose whoso death at luzerne N Y occurred rec recently outly like I 1 iko many other sculptors culp tori tort and artiste artists mr air mayer considered falling failing star th tha finest typo type of indian beauty that he bad ever swa seen for four years the demand for her services as a mo id let wai unceasing slog J duct bust by mayer she waa was lo 10 injured aured in a railroad acci dent less legs than thin a car ear ago and her usefulness as an artist artists s model was at an end then a cripple she went back to hr her homo home among the indians at luzerna Lu zerno livel a life of suffering thorah still able to weave baskets and at length passed away her entrance into the world of at art was dramatic ono one cold night about five yeara ago an gindlin woman oman went to mrs airs harriet maxwell converse in thia this city carrying on her back a pack of beautifully made sweet brass has bets mrs converse was then as she Is now the most trusted filand tho the in dkins have she ie Is herrell an adopted chiff chief amen arang ie te indians to her ahe gindlin woman who was falling star applied for mory mor y to take her bach back to I 1 offering a 4 security tor for the payment of at the loan the pack of basket she carried j mrs alm converso con ere sur surprised pried the woman by telling her to taka off her nat not and coat and sit down then she told her to loosed her hair and it fell I 1 la a jet black masses to her feet it was the first timo time mrs airs converse had ever I 1 seen falling star an ant I 1 tho the beauty of at the woman imbres d her ind she quickly realized falling failing stars value its an artist artists model mr mrs converse told her that she could probably earn more money by sitting still before an artist tor for five hours than she he could by selling has bas bets tor for r but falling star did not take to the pl plin lin she had ahr sense of modesty that Is character wic of all injian women and thought that ehe she trust pose undraped draped nn that she refused tu to Ls isi and not until she was told that hot lot von bar arms and shoulders need he e bared would rould she the agree to pose even then she could not understand wl r people were willing to pay her so to I 1 handsomely for or so to little work mra mrs converse became the womans or nalls best and by inquiry among the indians and by quest lonin balling falling star herself managed to learn her his lory tory she was born about forty years ago in the indian village of st francis near ale areal her ifer granduncle was cebatis ho ha later became ono one of the best known adirondack guides irom tram him tie girl learned all the tricks of woodcraft woo Jcraft hunting and fishing and when she he grew up none of tho the braves was more sure with tho rifle or more falling failing star fal in luring trout sao she was alia also an expert with the bow and nail arrow and ws i never more happy than when ber her shil 11 when hen about 20 the eirl girl moved to the adirondack country whet ebe she main baskets and peddled talu as the at the summer auni sier hotel not a f fe zno Y ara us saw ber her hero there bv t we and thelAn remoter her elt on accous of her beauty beau tyr 0 1 she WAS so good t sportswoman aporte woman anil and kaew the wood woods on thoroughly that it elitt she bad had so wished she he could have found steady employment as a a guide but she would render that service foi for only a closen few like I 1 ike most indians no matter what their religion she he believed in ani witchcraft inq etory story which she told sir mrs converse Con veree will if illustrate illus this bno she sot all I 1 that a girl of her tribe wai as warned by her grandmother not to let a certain woman oman touch ber her became because a spell might be cast but one day the supposed witch carried abo girl to the wood woods ao an I 1 after hoping hooping her there all day bot sent her home again her ifer gran I 1 mother heart u at 0 her misbehavior and punished hed her that evening she said the girl saw a worm almutt almost its large as a a nake crawl between the log logs of her cibin the worm commanded her to follow and leil led her to the witch then she mild said the kirl girl tol toll I 1 of ber her punishment an I 1 tho witch in revenge sent the worm to stay forever in the grand mother a knee and alway always acter after th mat at the grandmother wae was lame falling star believed the tory aas true among ber her other qualities falling st star r had hail he indian ability to heal heil tte tt eick sick she knew the antidote for stings and rattlesnake bites and gave the secret to mrs nits converse Cun veree take the leave leaves an I 1 roots of the wild violet ehe she said ani after crushing them in tho the hande hands apply a ball of the pulp to the wound and it will not result seriously ar louly indians say it la Is a sure cure members of her tribe said that once eho she cured a nan of a cancer falling star eald said that aa so but would not divulge that secret and anti it died with her falling star never knew whit tear fear was her ifer friendship was as right lay if she never forgot a wrong but sought f I 1 lie A characteristic costume no revenge her iler favorite motto was don it disown a person who has ild lied to you but once it he lies iles twice dia own him |