Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-23

[From the Chicago Herald.l
The Sioux method of courtship instills
in lovelorn buck the virtue of patience,
if noting more. When young Sioux
warrior seeks sweetheart he paints his
face in many colors, envelopes himself SO
completely in a blanket that nothing of
him but his eyes are visible, and let's his
breech clout drag along on the ground be-
hind him. This breech clout, by the way,
is the most extravagant piece of the young
warriors raiment. It is often made of
many colors, and is bespangled with look
ing glasses, small coins, bells and beads.
Arrayed in this attire, the young man
takes his position where the shy maidens
of his tribe are sure to pass him. He may
stand there half an hour before he receives
any encouragement, and then again he
may have to wait there for whole week.
But he never despairs. The girls know
why he wears that cloak, and why he
peers at them from beneath its folds
Usually there are from two to five squaw
hunters together. If one of them is no.
ticed favorably by young girl he immedi-
ately joins her and begins to make the
most ardent love. If, after his story has
been told, the girl rejects him, the next
young buck leaves the party, with his
breech clout jingling behind him, and tries
his hand.
Thus the lovers follow one another un-
| til the girl finds q promising buck who has
either done some great deed or who is rich
enough in ponies or steers to reimburse
| the father for the loss of his child, or who
is in position to earn some sort of fame
| in war or in peace. The agent usually ties
the marital knot. Whatever may be said
about the barbarous practices and the un-
cleanliness of the Sioux and Cheyenne
women, 1t is nevertheless fact that they
| are, with rare exceptions, industrious and
virtnous. When they have married white
men they have proved to be economical
| wives and good mothers.
A Romance of Old slavery Days.
from the Louisville Post.l
| A colored woman, bent nearly double
with eighty years and heavy bundle, was
seen to board the Cincinnati Mail line
packet yesterday afternoon. Approaching
| the clerk of the boat, she slowly united a
knot in the corner of her red bandanna
handkerchief and produced enough cash
to purchase deck ticket for Cincinnati.
The wrinxled and feeble old negress is the
heroine of a romance.
In ante-bellum days she was slave and
was owned by a planter near Asheyille, N.
| c. At an early age she was married to a
| slave of the same master. By him she
had several children. Over half century
ago her husband was torn from her and
| her children and was sold to another plan
ter. The woman continued to work on
the North Carolina plantation, and in a
short time was married again. Her whole
family was then put ON the block and sold
| to Virginia man. When the emancipa-
ton proclamation was promulgated the
| family took advantage Of their freedom
and journeyed northward, finally taking
| up their home in Louisville The husband
| died after the close of the war, and the
| children one by one left their mother to
seek their fortunes.
The mother toiled and labored to make
| a livelihood. She heard nothing of her
| first husband until about month ago,
when one of her sons found that the old
man was living at Newport, KY. The old
negress journeyed thither and found the
husband of her youth. He had also been
married second time, and had several
children by his second wife. The latter
was dead, however, and the reunited cou-
pie decided to again live together. The
woman returned to Louisville, disposed of
her effects, and yesterday completed the
romance of fifty years by returning to her
husband.