Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-05
Jealous Zm9.i Women
Washington Cor. N. Y. Herald.

washington Cor. N. I. Herald.
That the society and influences of this
brilliant capital have proved enticing and
bewildering to more than one man whose
affections had not wandered beyond his
own hearthstone before visiting Washing
ton is a Hell-known fact, but its effects
have lately been felt in a remote quarter,
which might have been supposed to be ex-
empt from all outside influence, and es-
pecially from the fasc1nations of Washing
toms society and its ladies. 1t is even ru-
mored that a divorce, or its equivalent in
the customs of the people of the most an
cisnt race on our continent, may occur in
high life among the zuni Indians in con-
eq1ence Of the visit the chief men of the
tribe paid to Washington last spring.
Those who have road 'Gulliyer's Travels"
have seen nothing therein more incredible
than the Zuni Indians have found the
stories told by the aged Pedro Pine and
others Of their tribe who visited Washing
ton last spring. When Mr.. Stevenson, of
the bureau of ethnology, and his wife, his
inestimable helpmeet in his researches,
visited Zuni in the early autumn they did
not see Pedro, who, in spite of his nearly
fourscore and ten years, was out of the
town at work on his farm. They, however,
heard much of his wonderful narratives
since his return, those who had stayed at
home saying that Pedro had ''talked in
cessantly since he came back and had told
many lies" He had told them of the
water he had seen run in the bath rooms
and the gas and OF the fine things in the
Washington houses and they would not be-
lieve word of it all.
Worse than ell he had told the Zuni wo-
men that the plainest white woman he saw
in Washington was handsomer than the
prettiest Zuni woman. This naturally
aroused their Indignation, which they ex-
pressed freely to Mrs. Stevenson, asking
her if it could be true. The wife of Pedro's
son, ''the governor" is passionatsly in love
with her husband and anxiously asked Mrs.
Stevenson if he fell in love with any Wash
ington ladies, as his father said they were
so beautiful.
The handsome young Moqui, who had
quite career as "nasher" in Washing
ton, and thought he had undoubtedly won
the heart of certain young girl whom
he calls Meenie, Minnie being her
name, is married man, and
besought Mrs. Stevenson to be
silent as to his career in Washington,
especially in his wife's presence. When
asked what had become of the trinkets
ladies in Washington had given him, which
he had worn when he left and while here,
he admitted with some show of feeling that
his wife had taken them from him after he
got home and she heard what old Pedro
said of the beauty of the ladies he had seen
in Washington and their attentions to him.
It was also told by Mr.. Stevenson that
since his wife heard all this from Pedro the
Moqui's domestic relations had been de-
cidsdly unpleasant.
Pedro, it seems, had not intended to
make mischief, bat merely being carried
away himself by the force of the
facts he had to zarrate, wished to
impress his people as strongly
as possible with the superiority of
those he had met in his travels and the
warmth of the reception given him and his
companions by such superior beings,
which, of course, added greatly to his own
importance. 1t does seem somewhat ludi-
crous to think of the wiles of Washington
society having had disturbing influence
upon that of distant Zuni, town unlike
any other in the world and differing in
manners, language and race from the in
habitants of any other. Pedro's own wife
is old like himself and had not apparently
thought of his making any conquests while
absent or of his affections straying after
white ladies, but the other married women
whose husbands were here will not be will
ing to have them travel soon again.