Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-26

The men and women both grease their faces,
arms, legs and think no more of putting the
dirty walrus grease on thir faces ethan the
women of Pittsburg do. painting and powder
ing their cheeks" The people there never
comb their hair, for the reason that they have
no combs. The men wear long boards and
hair because they have no way of shaving
or cutting their hair. They have no work
except that of hunting and fishing, and that
is looked upon as an exercise. It took them
two months to make the trip from Green
land to Iceland. The women of Greenland
are never clean and never tired. They have
no house cleaning to do, no washing, IRON
ing and cooking. They have no water there
except what is in the ocean. When
the people want a drink they dig
up piece of snow and ice
and let it melt in their mouths. If they
had any water they could not use it, be-
cause they have no vessels to haul it in.
They have no implements to work with, ex-
cept bones. They get piece of raw meat
and blupber and rub it all over their faces
and hands and feel refreshed afterward.
They are the most ccntented and peaceable
people in the world. They have no money,
no property, and everybody is the same
summer and winter. There are no rich or
no poor.
Miss Krarer said that if she went home
and told her people the way the people of
the United States lived they would not
believe her. The women never visit like
they do in this country. They hardly ever
go together for the reason that there is
nothing to buy and nothing to sell.
When young man wants to see girl,
and wishes to afterward marry her he ap-
plies to her mother for the loan of piece of
flint or something. Very often the mother
L - L.,
generally says You want nv daughter"
The young man becomes scared and runs
away to return at some future date and
STEAL HIS SWEETHEART
away from her home. The people of the
Northern country only see the sun four
months in the wear. The other eight
months, if they have no fire, they sit in the
darkness.
Their ideas about good and wrongdoing
are peculiar. They imagine that when they
die, if they have been good, they will go to
place that is comfortable and warm. If
they, have not been good they will
go to a place where it is colder
than the country where they live.
This makes them lead good lives.
The lecturer said that if the people i'm
agined Hades, or the bad place.. was hot,
they would Immediately become bad for the
sake of getting to a hot country, when they
died. They have vague understanding
about bad spirit and are mortally afraid
of him. They do not tell any lies, nor do
they say bad things about their neighbors.
The clothes of the people are the same.
All of them are made of fur, sewed together
with thread, composed of the sinew of the
reindeer. In reply to question Miss Kra-
rer said the people did not sleep all the
time it was dark, but when they got tired
sleeping they got up and talked. After
talking awhile they would sleep again. To
another question she said that when one of
them is dying the neighbors come in, gather
around the deathbed and sing of the good
spirit.
She said there never had been mission
airy among the people of Eastern Green
land, but there were a few in the Western
part of the country, where hot streams made
the climate warmer. 1t SHOWS in the coun-
try three times each year, about two or three
days at stretch.
There are two churches in Iceland, one
Roman Catholic and the other a Lutheran
church. Everybody in that country goes to
services, and the people mostly speak
English. Miss Krarer went into Manitoba
from Iceland. From there she gradually
drifted into Dakota and Minnesota, as she
grew acclimated to the change in the. atmos-
phere.