Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-12

THE INDIAN AND HOT WEATHER.
Why Change of Weather Does Not Re-
quire Change of Clothes.


Having adopted style OF dress the Indian is
not lightly led aside by climatic freaks and
changes to any notifications of it. If his best
thought approves a blanket with the additional
warmth and weight of U.S.LD. stamped upon
it, blanket remains his protection regardless
of the protest of July mercury. ..
Duck trousers, striped blazers and siIken
girdles, even if issued by Uncle Sam, himself
arrayed in gauzy garb and in sympathetic
mood, would not tempt the Indian from his
traditions. enthusiastically you will see a
young buck in the classic drapery of his
blanket daring the innovation OF red and
white striped advertising umbrella as a screen
from the sun, but for this purpose the eagles
feather Is au fait. and any compromise there
upon is held in disrepute and derisioI.
CLAD IN A TEXT QUILT.
At long intervals the spirit Of reform burns
in the breast of Lo and manifests itself in
fashion radical and startling. On the occasion
of visit to the Sioux reserve during the
heated term OF recent summer l saw in
statuesque outline against a chalky cliff an In
dian wrapped in what upon nearer approach,
proved to be a text quilt" while between
himself and the sun slowly waved a Japanese
fan. The text quilt had doubtless fallen to
him from heavily stocked eastern missionary
box. Feeling all the veneration usual to the
uncivilized for the magic characters inscribed
upon it our swarthy brave, like the priests of
old in phylacteried robes, put on an exclusive
ness of manner that indicated that betwe en-
him and us there was great gulf fixed.
Meantime, as he arranged and rearranged
his drapery, glanced across the gulf and read
such cheerful texts ''lf We are smitten on
one cheek turn the other" Also, .If thy
brother ask of ye thy coat give him thy cloak
Also"
INJURED TO THE HEAT.
1t is as much a parsof the Indians creed to
become Injured to tine heat as to the cold 1t is
not an infrequen: spectacle to see infants in
heavy blanket shirts weighted with elk teeth
tied into beaded frames or cradles and left
standing against the heated frame wall of the
ration house while their mothers gossip hours
away within. We have seen, after the issue of
beef upon the hOof, half dozen squaws drag
the steer that fell to their allotment into the
open prairie and under a scOrching sun, clean,
quarter and divide it when perhaps a few mes
quite trees not far distant or an overturned
wagon would have furnished partial protec-
tion from the intense glare and heat.
BELLIES TOILET.
young Pueblo girls toilet for July even
ing is the same that she would make in Decem-
Der. Her limbs from the knee to the ankle are
wound with not less than ten thicknesses OF
deer skin. The costly black native blanket is
carefully adjusted with brilliant woven girdle
at the waist scarlet kerchief hangs back
shawl draped from the head Fill a jar with
water that gushes from rock full mile from
her adobe home place it upon her head, start
her OH under fervid sun and contriye to meet
her at the other end of the line, and you will
find her as placid and undisturbed as the linn
pid water within the jar upon her head.
Los PHILOSOPHY IN HOT wEATHRR.----
There is a good deal in much of Lo's-eyery-
day philosophy which il adopted by us. would
take the curled top from many hot wave.
he Is never by any mistake in hurry.
He does not dissipate his reserve strength by
either fretting or chatting.
He avoids heating himself by an effort %
keep cool.
There are no swear words in his vocabulary
In the use of which he could generate heat
For these and other reasons not yet given out
but entirely adequate the man in red reaches
the other side OF hot wave with temperature
and circulation normal. KoLA.
Sues the District for $50, 900 Damages
Messrs. C. NJ. Smith and H. E. Davis today,
for John Sinclair, by his next friend, George
anna Sinclair, entered suit against the District
for SIC, 200 damages, by reason of his having
his leg 80 crushed to render amputation at
the thigh necessary. The declaration sets out
that IN December last the boy, John Sinclair.
was sentenced BY the Police Court to the work
house for sixty days for vLgrancy; that
January ~ he was put to work az the driver of
DIRT car on Kentucky avenue, and that while
IN the act OF getting on the car the body of il
revoived, knocking him Of, and the wheel
passed over his leg, crushing 1T SO that it be-
came necessary to amputate it Mt
| the thigh. The declaration charges that
the accident was caused by no fault Of his:
that the District had notice that the car was
not In order and 1t was through the negligence
iuriaa ware inourra1