The Osceola times., 1883-03-03
JEALOUS zUNI WOMEN.
Beauties of Washington Seriously Disturb
ing Their Peace Of Mind.

Ing Theu feace VI 'Ai""'
Washington Dispatch.
That the society and influences OF this
brilliant Capital have proved enticing
and bewildering to more than one man
whose affections had not wandered be-
yond his own hearthstone before visiting
Washington is well known fact, but Its
effects have lately been felt in a remote
quarter, which might have been suppos-
ed to be exempt from all outside influ-
ence, and especially from the destinations
of Washington's society and its ladies.
II is even rumored that divorce, or
its equivalent in the customs of the peo-
pie of the most ancient race on our con-
tinent, may occur in high life among the
Zuni Indians in consequence of the visit
the chief men of the tribe paid to Wash
ington last spring.
Those who have read "Gullivers
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 visi-
ted Washington 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 Pc
dro, who, in spite of bis nearly fourscore
and ten years, was cut of the town at
work on his farm. They, however, heard
much of the wonderful narratives since
his return; those who had stayed at home
saving that Pedro had talked incessant-
ly since he came back aid hadtold 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 believe a
word of it all.
Worse than all he had told the Zuni
women that the plainest white woman
he saw in Washington was handsomer
than the prcttiest Zuni woman. This
naturally aroused their indignation,
which they expressed freely to Mrs. Ste
venson, asking her if it could be true.
The wife of Pedro's son, "the Governor"
is passionately in love with her husband
and anxiously asked Mrs Stevenson if he
fell in love with any Washington ladies,
as his father said they were so beautiful.
The handsome young Moqui, who had
quite a career as "masier" 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 ca
reer in Washington, especially in his
wifes presence.
| When asked what had become of the
trinkets ladies in Washington had given
him, which he bad 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 when
she heard what old Pedro sal of the
| beauty of the ladies he had seen in
| Washington and their attentions to him.
Ii was also told by Mr.. Stevenson that
since his wife heard all this from Pedro
the Moqui's domestic relations had been
decidedly unpleasant.
Pedro, it seems, had not intended to
make mischief, but merely being carried
away himself by the force of the facts he
had to narrate, 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 ludicrous to
think of the wilcs of Washington society
having had disturbing influence upon
that of distant Iuni town unlike any
other in the world and differing in man
ners, language and race from the inhabi.
tants of any other. Pedro's own wife is
old like himself and has 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 willing to have them travel soor
again.