The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-23
Rights of squaws.

ASA5Abo " N1h
Superintendent Ker, of the Big
Mckee Model Farm, tells a good story
of an intellectual encounter he had
with the Yakima Indians. These
Yakimas pick the hops in the Mckee
year. They call it their ''illihe,n and
claim the exclusive right to the work.
Most of the labor, however, falls to
the squaws. One season the squaws
struck on Mr.. Ker. They refused to
go ahead at the price paid all over the
Territory-$1 a box and insisted
upon an advance to $1.25. Mr.. Ker
| sent for the chief, old So Happy. The
chief came, and, with an interpreter,
the big pow-wow proceeded. Mr.. ker
began in a diplomatic way by saying
that the chief and he occupied much
the same position. They were Tyhee
men. They had many people subor-
dinate to them. They were accus-
toned to give orders and to have
those orders obeyed. Through the in
tcrpreter, Mr.. Ker enlarged upon
the necessity of enforcing discipline.
He told what he would do in case his
instructions were not carried out by
his men, and what the chief ought to
do If his followers were disobedient.
Then he laid before the chief the
merits of the situation. And, finally,
he suggested that the chief issue
orders to the refractory pickers that
they must work for 81 a box.
Old So Happy smoked and listened
until the white Tyhee, which is Indian
for big man, had finished his argu-
ment. Then he removed his pipe and
replied:-
This is a matter of squaw's work"
Nothing more would he say, and
from that position he would not de-
part. He was Tyhee and all that in
his tribe, but this was squaw's work,
and he would not interfere with the
strike. Mr.. Ker was finally forced to
to give up all hopes of help from So
Happy. He sent for Columbia Jack,
a sub-chief, and drought him entered
into negotiations with the squaws or
a compromise. The difficulty was
settled by splitting the difference.
The hops were picked for $1.12M a
box Yakima CIV. ~ cor. 81. Louis
GLobe-D Democrat.
A French Woman at Home
She helps to cook the dinner she has
bought-for servants are wasteful
with the charcoal, and she knows to
an inch how little she can use. In
that marvellous place-a French
kitchen, where two or three little
holes in a stove cook such delicate
dishes and perform such culinary feats
as our great, roaring coal fires have no
conception of-she fits about like a
fairy, creating magical messes out OF
raw material of the most ordinary
description. Yes, though a lady born
and bred, refined, elegant and agree
able in society, a belle in her way, yet
she does not think it beneath her Dig
nifty to tighten the household expenses
bv practical economy and activity.
The dinner of q French family is
cheap and simple. There is always
soup, the meat of the stew-pan-
sometimes, il not strict in expenditure
another plate of meat-generally
two. vegetables, dressed and eaten
separately, and sometimes, not always,
a sweet dish; if not that, a little fruit,
such as may be the cheapest, and in
the ripest season.
But there is very little of each
thing and it is rather in arrangement
than in material that they appear
rich. The idea that the French are
commands in private life is incorrect.
They spend little in eating and they
eat inferior things, though their cook
cry is rather a science than a mere
accident of civilization. AT home the
great aim of the French is to save, and
any self sacrifice that will lead to this
result is cheerfully undertaken, more
especially in eating than in the mere
luxury of mere idleness. No French
woman will spend a cent to save her
self frOrhla She world rather work
like a dray horse to buy an extra
yard of ribbon or a new pair of gloves
than lie on the softest sofa in the
world in placid fine ladyism, with
crumpled gauze or bare hands,
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