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Show ..; ; ' Mvrt A? 35.iVv uwy emu A .Jr-. j,OiU J$:J ili WlJ v v v v V, J W, ' -A MimM. 4 t l IIH Indian girl la proxreaalng In I I accordance with th example aet i J I by her white alatera. Indoad, It la I a queatlon whether the Indian girl 1 r Dl- ,n mny reapecta. ad-V,yj ad-V,yj V"1 vanclng more rapidly than their JJ?0 prolotypea emoog tbe peleraee. Bh- However, It niuat not be Interred w 'TA that 'the preaent-day trend of cul-W cul-W lure and education and progreaa among th Indian girl la a paral-C paral-C C) 11 aa to alma and purpoaea with " that which prevail among her rlr- complexloned coualne Vlult the contrary, aa a matter of lact. For Inmance, It may be cited that, generally peaklng, (he Indian girl of the preaent give tar leaa thought to fablona In dreaa than do feminine memuere of the white race. Similarly they are not exerclaod over uffrage and they do not placo aucb atreaa on the development of mualcal arcompllahmenta. Hut, on the contrary, tho twentieth contury In-i In-i dlun glrla are devoting their energloa lo a ma- lery of rookery and aewlng and the other earen-I earen-I tltil ol urrearul home making to which. In the eMtliiiiillnn ot aome old taahlnned folk, the white girl ol the period are giving all too llttlo attention. atten-tion. At the name time, ninny or the red akln belle are not content lo Ignore the ocll accom-, accom-, plldiinent which are aupponed to enhance tho at-trnrtlvcneaa at-trnrtlvcneaa of modern young women. Accordingly Accord-ingly al the Indian School at Carllale. Pa., and other large Innutrition of thl kind we Itnd the datiKhter of the foreat crowding th claaaea In miiKlc, painting, drawing, dancing, modern unlet un-let lc, etc., and even behold thee descendant of the aavage developing marked dramatlo ability . In amateur theatrical entertainment ol varlgu kind. i Every peron la fnroed to admit of the wladom and benetlte of th "white nian'a education" for aome Indiana. Tbe remarkable life atorle of ome of the ae'f marie Indiana who have, after acquiring the white nian'a hook learning, adopted the white man' mode of life, amply atteat the aucceaa of the transformation In Individual caaea There la, however, and perbap alwaya win be a difference of opinion aa lo the wladom of attempting at-tempting to fli tbe Anglo Saxon atandarda lor the entire rlalng generation ol America a native trlbea. Oddly enough there aeem to be more widespread belief In auch a policy for tbe Indian glrla than for the young men of tbe tepee. W ay, oddly, because when nw condition have confronted an uncivilized or aeml clvlllied people It haa usually been the men who have accustomed ac-customed themselves to the new order ol thing more readily than the women. In the cae ot most Indian clan, however, the women have proven more amenable to the election ot the new life wherein arem to lie the only salvation of the entire Indian life. Various reason nave been advunred In explanation ol this, one ot the most plausible being that It ohs not been a difficult dif-ficult lor the Indian girl to lorego inch pleasures aa she enjoyed In her old III aa It haa boen lor the young brave lo foresake the excitement ot the chase and tlio care tree nomadic lite and to settle down In a Used habttutlon with the Irksome monotony of the white man's Ilia Also, It la Ini-posKlhle Ini-posKlhle to overlook the Influence exerted by the example of the considerable number ol Indian women who hnve married whit settlers In Oklahoma Okla-homa and other parts ot the Jtest. Kven at the outeet of ber career In tbe conventional conven-tional environment of the ag tho Indian girl baa many advantages over ber brother who completes com-pletes hla education at tha same time. It not Infrequently In-frequently happens that a young man of Indian blood graduatea with bonora Irom aome Indian school only to llnd no opportunities awaiting mm commensurate with hla ability. Umall wonder that In some Instancea tha young men revert re-vert to the Ideal and mod of III of their tore father. The Indian girl, on tba outer band, can be sur that when b Unlahe a achooi court that Includes domaille economy tbere la a place ! wit' n : "AfM0f?s or thjt AKHfjr or wotr nvey at cxh Jie sJ3w jmgc rftaes' iatoot. awaiting ber. Bb will never bave any difficulty In obtaining a well paid position In domestic service, serv-ice, for tbe Instructors at our Indian schools have more applications tban they can accept Irom re sponsible famine eager to secure competent Indian In-dian glrla aa household helpera. Home ol the applicants ap-plicants even auggeat the possibility of adopting a young Indian girl If on he lound to luint expectation. ex-pectation. Or, If the Indian girl of the preaent day, upon completing her education, elect to try lor a live-Ihood live-Ihood In soni on of th artlatlo pursuits an aeem to have advantage over her brother fully aa marked aa under the clrcumatancea above mentioned. men-tioned. The Indian brav. In bla native atate, doe not show aptitude lor any lorm of artlatlo handicraft unless It b Ih faablonlng ot bowa and arrowa. Hut th Indian women have traditional tradi-tional skill In bead work, In feather work and In leather work and the Indian women of the southwest south-west have for countless fenerations excelled In pottery manufacture. In rug weaving and In baeket manufacture. When an Indian girl la enabled to use aucb talents In accordance with tbe knowledge knowl-edge ot modern art Ideals which a achooi education educa-tion glvea bor. It goes without saying that aba haa ready to hand a very agreeable and very remunerative re-munerative mean of llvellBood School teaching la another vocation which opena to tha educated Indian glrli a luture that la virtually vir-tually closed lo tha rednktn or the terner sex Then r In th United mate a large and constantly con-stantly Increasing number or Indian schools. that I, primary grade school for the education of the younger Indian children on tha reservations, and It la coming about that almost all of tbe teachera in these schools aro Indlao young women who have qualified for th work at Carnal or other achooi and by roursra In aormal schools Indeed the success of great numbers of these young Indian women school teachera In earning their livelihood ty brain work while ao many of the Indian young men of tbs period muut depend upon manual labor for their earning empbaslxee aa doea nothing elae the change that haa come about In the atatua of Indian women. It la, under un-der auch circumstances, a complete reversal or conditions over those that obtained In tbe long ago when tbe Indian women were compelled to do all of the hard labor, whereas the men were reaponelble only for th lighter taaka, or, mayhap, may-hap, devoted themaelvea iclulvly to warfare and tbe chs There I little doubt that on explanation of the aucceaa which ao many twentieth ten'.ury In dian glrla are making In varloua fields of endeavor en-deavor la found In the heritage of good health which haa come to them from generations ol healthlul ancestors, and the Influence or their own early training and out door life. Particularly would thla explanation account tor the splendid constitutions possessed by ao many Indian glrla and which bave atood them In good atead 10 many exacting vocations, lor Instance, In nursing Ureat numbera of Indian glrla bave qualined a trained nurse and th services of most of them re In constant demand at $100 a month The Indian baby, atrapped to board or a curely parked In an elongated basket woven for the purpose, can neither kick nor squirm and this proves an advantage which la far-reaching In It effect In later life. Hlmllarly la tbere no danger that the child will attempt to walk at an earlier ago than la desirable, r'rom earliest childhood tha average Indian girl haa been subjected to that rigorous outdoor life which results In making them almost perfect physically. Kor Instance there may be cited the method lollowed In giving an Indian child a bath, a weekly event l bs mother visit tome convenient pool or stream and tha young member of th household, aflar being loosened Irom ber odd cradle, la placed In ahal low water to kick and eplaab to her heart s con tent. In due course the dripping youngster li lifted from the mater und, Instead or being ten derly dried with soft linen, la aluiply bung to the bough of some convenient tree, by means of a cloth tied around the want, and there drtea In th air and the siinxhlne while the mother stand by looking with approving eye upon the progress ol thl heroic hardening proces. In the old day the Indian girl accepted al tender nge the traditional lot ol Indlun women that of pack horse, and It wa nothing unusual In the average Indian camp to e we girl toll lug along with bundles of wood, etc., almost as large as Iheiuiclvos. This condition yet obtalni to a considerable extent, although It la not ao universal aa formerly. Tha capacity ol the In dlan girls for bard work, however, finds dally ex empllllcatlon In every walk of III which thnj have entered. Incldently, It may be mentioned that whatever Influence civilisation may exert up on the young woman In whose vein course Indian In-dian blood she never seems lo lose that love ol ornament and bright color which charactorlrel all children of th wlldarnes and which th In dlan girl will let crop out In her latterdav en turn, even though rhey be fashioned In accord ance wlb tbe most conventional modes |