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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1912)
-iAWW QKSWhlBnffivTATW tfat? ttramra Ah WBBBBBMM HEADS "BIG SISTERS" SOCIETY Willow RBv fem wf IwKrclHiiiH "'EL 1 SI ilw Wi "iWrw w -rill i i t &&JMZm v&i WlM, H &$ vzL T'liUffi'SlH z zipyari? ISP; WWr $ iiJBHK?1 " sizmmm XmJmSm JaF.r oUHAMBBbX. ill a I Wflr 1 I I yz BzarcK or Kzzeo OMAN has emnnclpntod herself In the tropical IbIcb of the Paclflc. Onco she did nil the drudgery, now oho maltcs Ids of flowers for tho men to wear about tholr heads whllo they do tho hard work nec essary to support tho fnirlly. At best tho Polynesian woman will only work with her husband, but never for him. The beautiful re sults of her Industry of long ago In tho South Seas, when man was master, aro almost thlngB of tho past, to bo found nowadays as price less relics In tho museums of tho world. In tho good old days boforo a Hawaiian queen celebrated tho death of hor warrior husbnnd by declaring nothing taboo or forbidden to her sex, tho Hawaiian woman lived on a slim diet. Sho might make nets and catch fish for her husband, but she could not eat them, nor could oho dlno off Iho same mat, made by her hands, from which her lord and master ate, nor could sho oven eat in tho presence of her own son whom sho brought Into tho world. Onco tho "taboo" wob removed, tho woman bo camo tho equal of tho man, und the arts lan guished. When kings could command and kill tho disobedient, rulers of Hawaii woro a robe of feathers that took many women a contury to com plete, and thousands of men as long to gather tho few feathers that each wild bird of tho mountains I KmmiSMMs i j " ?'2T ?- Wmy w t JMttFFozatzwxt' j&xjzo tea i&iz&'joGr supplied for tho roval rolin nf voilnw vninmi nt a million dollars, tho most costly royal robo lu existence, and tho handiwork of savago women who havo long forgotten tho art that onco was theirs, when tholr flngorn created fouthor robes for tholr husband chlofo to wear. Today when a royal personage dlos in Hawaii, ancient kahilis, or wands of feathers, aro care fully reconstructed by those who still presorvo tho art of putting them togothor, and nftor tho royal interment they aro again taken apart and i put carefully away. In days of old oven queons 'workod on those, and oven tho present ox-Quoon Lllluoknlnnl workod with hor own hands a, fcathor wand that preceded to tho grave poor Queon ICiiiiim. last descendant of tho first American to roako Hawaii his homo. Again this kahili was .carried boforo the funoral cortogo of Prlnco jpavld, and will In timo proccdo LUluokalanl her 'eolf to tho last resting place of Hawaiian kings and quoons, tho royal raausoloum. Somotlmos ono may Btlll obsorvo a family of wornon In Hawaii wearing ono of tho old-tlmo, all 'but prlcoloss mats, but It 1b tedious work and tho oter-educatod college-bred girl of Hawaii doos not tnko toll kindly. Dosldoa tho art must bo learned In childhood when tho flngors aro supple, ami nowadays tho public schools havo truant of Acorn and every family a sowing machine Every Hawaiian girl, howovor, Is an adopt at weaving wreaths and chains of flowers. Tho lol women are one of tho sights of Honolulu, for tho man Bhu loves tho Hawaiian girl will still woavo a hat of natlvo tlbro around which sho will mako a bund of feathers to express her "aloha" or lovo for tho wcaror. As tho natlvo arts and Industries in tho South 8eas nro abandoned ono by ono boforo tho on ward march of civilization, tho nborlglmil of tho tropica aro loft Idlo, quickly forgot how to work and pass away, In tho good old days It took a muscular cannibal full six months to chop out with prlmitlvo stono lmplomonts his log canoo In Now Zealand tho most export wood carvors woro employed for years nt a strotch fashioning with Btono hatchets tho' hoadploco for a war canoo. In overy South Sea village tho sound of tho womon beating out tnpa cloth was heard from morning till night, but nowadays all theso things laro dono in a twinkling by machinery In civilized Innds, sold to tho South Son Islandors for tho 'cocoanutB thoy pick up undor tho trees. Thoro Is no further Incontlvo for thom to work, so naturo Boonia to say to thorn, "Thon why llvo?" Clvlllza tlon has clothed tho savago and robbed him of his handicrafts, but It has not yot ouccoodod In making him work for tho whlto inun, as tho wulto man wishes htm to work. In tho good old days of tho groat king Kamo hamoha. somo nlnoty odd years ago, overy Hawaiian man was a warrior, skilled In tho con Btructlon ofartlBtlo wnr clubs and doublo canora almost as largo aa modorn ships. Tho .women wo7mrpzjrj7&ojmFaf wovo somo of tho most wonderful feather robes ovor worn by royalty, and to this day tho few old na tives who Btlll preservo allvo tho art of beating tapa cloth, turn out de signs the 111(0 of which is to bo found nowhero olso in tho Paclflc, real works of art, whllo tho few Ha waiian matB that aro still woven rank above any mado In tho South Seaa. Modorn aniline dyes havo lightened tho labors of tho Hawaiian remnant of natlvo cloth makors, but I havo many a time como across tho Fijian men and women in their forests working all day long with a will digging roots and herbs from which to ox- tract colors. Tho tlmo has not yet quite como In FIJI when all tho population may sit with hands' folded, waiting for tho end, izMTv&jmn&trMr'j&si 7fj2if&jM)ioi but nil over tho South Soas tho handicraft of tho native workmen is becoming moro and moro a rarity to bo snapped up for preservation In tho world's great museums. In New Zealand it Is a penal ofTenso to attempt to export a bit of Maori carving, no living Maori may bo employed upon a bit of natlvo nrt work for a foreigner, no matter what tho prlco offered tho workman may bo, ho must sell to tho gov ernment. In tho Now Hebrides, wood carving Is all but a lost nrt. Today In tho nntlvo villages, In the homo of a chief where tho old flllgreo woodwork dividing tho hut in two rooms still stands, only the very oldest workers in the vil lages can repair It properly. Whore there are no old men, clumsy patchwork Is made ot It. and as for the young men, they know nothing what ever of tho art. Practically It has already died out. I had seen tho Pandanus tree growing In Hawaii. I havo oven sat down and watched tho Hawnllans who, In spite of their childhood spent in tho public schools, still preserve the art of mat making, and seated upon tho flooring of their modern piazzas, their legs under them, keep their flngors busy with the long strips of leaves that somo ono olso has dried and cured for them. It was not until I had spent somo tlmo among tho FIJlans that I met those who collect their own leaves and follow tho process of mat making from start to finish. Tho woman's work In tho South Seas is to help tho man. He builds tho canoe, she helps to pad dle It; sho creates pottery, ho takes it to a mar ket; he climbs to cut down tho ripened coconnut, sho weaves the baskets that carry tho dried kernel or copra to tho trader. If tapa Is to bo mado the man helps to gather tho bark. And so ' It goes, tho South Sea island woman has nearly everywhere In tho Paclflc achieved hor emanci pation, owns her own sowing machine and bids a cheerful "kofn" (farewell) to the Industries nt which her mother was an artist., Sho has attained equality with man, but tho world has lost some thing that sho might gain everything. j Peace Made The Quaker Face What mado tho Quaker face? Not a broad brimmed hat or a gray bonnet, no tho flippant as sort. Costume will not mako It, as you may provo for yoursoU at tho next mnsquerado. in part, it was tho mysticism, tho reserve and tho self-reliance of tho Quakor mind. These things were tho very ossonco of tho society, and they led to a subconscious commnnd to bo silent, to be calm, to hldo tho omotlons of tho too often rebellious heart, which In turn helpod to mold tho faces one soos In tho portraits and among tho Friends still loft who belong to tho old rule. It usod to bo said In our Quakor town that ono could toll by tholr manners the children who had boon sent to tho Frlonds' school, bocauso once a wook In meeting thoy had to sit for an hour In porfoct qulot. Think of a family, of a community, whero tho heart was put undor dlsclpllno for life! Hut this 1b not all, for I havo loft out tho causes which woro chlofly responsible for tho most charm ing element of tho foaturos of tho old Frlonds an enduring peace. Thoro havo bcon unpeaceful Quakers and unpeaceful Quarkorosses. Moro than ono member ot our meeting, so I am told, stamped out ot First Day service and slammed tho door bo hind them whon tho unorthodox Hlcksltes begnn their preaching. I havo heard that ono of our an cestresses was a Bcold, and there was Cousin Amelia, who used to shako her finger at an ob stinate driver when he refused to uncheck his horso, and say: "Just wait till theo gptB to tho next world. Then theo'U see what will happen!" As I havo remarked, the Quaker project was not always successful. Dut for onco popular opinion Is quit right tho Quaker face, particularly tho Quakor woman's face, was transfused with peace. Is It not natural? Where could bo found "tho world's sweet Inn from pain and wearisome tur moil," If not In tho older communities of Friends communities In which prudence and self-control kept away poverty; where not only war, but strife also, and civil and domestic discord, were banned so oxpllclty that It waB forbidden to decide by ma jorities at meotlng; whore rivalry In dress and In station woro restrained as far as fallible human nature would permit? How could peace fail to bo resident In a society which believed that God was not in his heaven, but among us, nnd that as long as ono lived without nffectntlon, did tho dally task, kept tho heart tender and tho body puro, nil waB right with the world? Henry Soldel Cnnby, in tho Contury Mngazlne. racrffWcWraffcTWSrffSWsr Bad for Her Child. "I seo that your husband Is tnklng one ot your neighbor's chlldron as n enddy whon ho goes on tho golf links." "Yes." "Dut why doesn't yout own Bon go with him 7 DocBn't ho llko to carry hlB father's clubs?" "Yes, but I put a stop to H whon I found out what torrlblo lnuguago my husband usos when ho foozles. I mado him get nnothor boy or drop tho game." Explained. Ascum Toll me, which Is propor? Would you say, "It Is possible for two to llvo on ?10 a week" or "on $10 weekly?" WlSe Well. I'd say: "It Is possible for two to llvo on ?10 n week weakly." Catholic Standnrd and Times. Lazy Little Prue. Suo Wouldn't you just llko to bo ad hnppy as a lark? Prue No, Indeed. Think of tho tlmo thoy havo to got up. Llpplncott's. Warning Off. Impecunious Nobleman Sir, ,1 understand you havo a peorless daughter. Old Moneybags Yes, and you might as woll un derstand first as last, that sho is going to stay peorless as far no you fortuno hunters aro con-corned. Compensation. Tatloi: Tho last ruU I fiiado for you was a little tight, so I am making this one looso. 1 give every ono n square deal. Polo Mole, ' A Roland for An Oliver. "Mr. Stint, I want to marry your daughter." "Would you promise mo, sir, to support her In tho way to which sho has boon accus tomed?" "Oh, no, sir. I wouldn't bo that mean to ner.- Tho organization In New York of Big Sisters, formed to work on tho lines of the now eight-year-old Bocloty of Big Brothers, is the result of tho Individual effort of Mrs. William K. Vanderbllt In the chlldi-en's court. Tho society hns already moro than a hundred members, has nn office in tho sulto occupied by tho Big Broth ers, nt 200 Fifth avonuo, with a sec retary and assistant secretary to at tend to tho clorlcnl work, and to bo always at tho court whenever It is In session and look after Uttlo girls who need assistance when tho members of tho society are not able to bo present. Mrs. Vanderbllt, whoso practical charitable work Is illustrated In the apartment homes, with tho maximum amount of sun and air, which oho had put up for people with Incipient cases of tuberculosis, begnn her visits to tho children's court about two years ago. There sho found representatives of Jowlsh and Catholic organizations do ing excellent work among their people, but thero was no ono from the Prot estant denominations to make a special effort to look nfter tho children of their churches. There was so much work to bo dono that TItb. Vanderbllt visited tho courts nt least onco and sometimes two or three times a week, interesting herself in cases when thero seemed need of assistance. Finding n little rag tag baby at tho front of the stairs sho would pick It up and carry It until she found tho person who was supposed to bo In charge of It. She visited the' chlldron Bho found to need in their homes. They did not know her by name, but only know that somo one kind and motherly wjis Interested In them. Then, the personal equation bolng Buch an Important part of tho work, oho Interested her two sisters, Mrs. F. C. Havomeyer and Mrs. Stephen H. OHn, whoso names nro among the Incorporators, nnd somo of her friends also came In. DUKE OF ORLEANS IS HARD UP In tho diplomatic and social world in London It Is believed that the duke of Orleans, who aspires to be Ring of Franco and keeps on wire pulling to that end, must bo a bit short of ready cash. Otherwise no one believes that he would have sold his famous estate of Wood Norton, "the homo of exiles," ns he has just done, tho buyer being an English judge, Sir Charles Swln fen Eady, writes a London corre spondent of tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat. How much his worship paid his highness for Wood Norton it has proved Impossible to learn, but it must have been a tidy sum, for the house Itself is furnished with a mag nificence In keeping with the royal state which tho pretender to the throno of Franco has kept up there, and tho property, which is located near Evesham, in the valley of tho Avon, extends over 2,500 acres and i i t . iuiuh in several pansnos. The man sion, which is a handsome one. with many gables, will need a lot of altera tion inside to mnko it a suitnble homo for nn English magistrate, everything, from tho door handles and the electric fittings to the oak panelings, being emblazoned with the fleur-de-lis of tho royal house of France. However, Its new owner can stand tho racket, for, besides getting a fat salary as one of the judges of tho court of chancery which so mnny Americans believe to bo keeping them out of big fortunes ho is said to havo earned, as a barris ter, one of tho largest incomes ever mnde by a lawyer in England. . . DECLARES OROZCO HAS FAILED pjWP fv 84 Xy. J ) of Orozco, who was very popular then. Gen. Braullo Hernandez, formerly a leader In both of tho Mexican revolu tions, is now in the United States, practically an exile from his own country. At present General Hernandez Is at outs both with tho government under Madero, which has had him indicted on a charge of conspiracy, and with Orozco, the revolutionary leader. "Tho revolution Is not a separate ono from that which made Madero president," ho said. "But Madero be trayed tho trust of tho people after becoming president by allying himself with the wealthy claBS and tho corpo rations what you call tho trusts. At my call tho peoplo aroso to demand what thoy expected from tho revolu tion that ended la tho overthrow of Diaz. "Orozco was not with us then. Later he Joined us. Then tho trusts, seeing they would lose, decided to di vide, half of them going to tho aid I pleaded with him not to accopt their services, but ho would not listen. Now tho people are fighting, but not with tho same spirit." Hernandez asserts tho principles for which tho present revolutionists havo been fighting aro revision of tho codes and comploto reformation of tho whole Judiciary system, practical and general education, to Include tho chil dren of tho Indian population, and tbo democratizing of tho rural lands. SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS OPENED And now wo havo a School of Moth ercraft. It Is a Now York Institution and is probably tho only one of its kind in tho world; certninly It Is tho only ono In tho United States. Its director Is Mary L. Read, who Is also Its originator, and among thoso Interested In it is a list of women which might well bo mistaken for an extract from tho Soclul Register all of them enthusiastic, helpful and con vinced that In tho new institution something has arisen, which will very greatly tend to help tho nation. Regarding tho objects of tho school Miss Rend said: "Tho objects (ot tho school nro to provide a competent, a very practical and scientifically truo course of in struction in those things which will enable the mother to mako of her chil dren tho healthiest, host educated nnd most honorable citizens. Tho school goes furthor than that, Indeed, for It nlmB nlso to help her to produce, In tho first place, tho right kind of a child on which to work. Tho practico of biology In tho family Includes eugenics as well as the care of tho infant and Iho growing child. Thoro is as much for the unmarried girl as for tho mar ried woman to learn, for tho right study of ougenlcs will show hor how and whom to marry and how and whom not to marry. r tiHfcri- v IB3P -? A j p-Ssr n-zzrnt: -rn- --( -fc-... -t -ti n1Mt iy ;' J"?grWhtJt'WM, w"ffrr.r-