Show BUSY CLIFF DWELLERS alie ire literally im of tl ejr the cliff people are a busy folk writes hamlin garland in the ladias home journal in an article describing the homes homo life and customs of the cliff dwellers of the southwest alie most people in america as he designates thorn the women annd meal and weave blankets and ballota and make very interesting and often beautiful pottery the old men mate moccasins very deftly while the young er men go down from he cliff to the fields to tend the growing crop to watch the struggle gln g corn as it battles against drifting hot band and against sudden floods such are the extremities of their climate each morning while I 1 was in hagio I 1 heard the men at early dawn go down the steep trail dow a into the purple plain their qua lenng soi gs floated up to me w ith a beauty each morning while it was still dark the women woke me by entering the room where I 1 lay to grind corn and each night I 1 went to sleep to the regular rhythm of the meal ing stone timed to the mystic 1 reli gioda chant ct alio toiling women let it bo said that there 13 no worn an slavery among these people any more lan among he yava jois the women ore cl let property holders the 1 ouse is generally the woman B and descent is through her and not through the father tl 0 men are seldom be ere in m inner and in acoma and walpi as well as in laguna and zuni I 1 saw the men tak ing caie of the babies and doing it with great tenderness and smiling patience I 1 saw no evidence of any severity except in case of the old women they seemed to be hie drudges of the household in and in acoma carrying wood and bottles of iter up the steep trill bent withered maroie and complain ing they alone of all these people seemed |