The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-05
courtship Among the Sioux.

tVuhtehAp 6hAOh& u0 5fOu4.
The Sioux method of courtship land
l suppose it is the same among most
of the blanket tribes instills in a
love-lorn buck the virtue of patience,
il nothing more, remarks a CORES
pendent of the Chicago Herald.
When a young Sioux warrior, or an
old coffee cooler for that matter,
seeks a 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 behind him. This breech
clout, by the way, is the most extrava-
CANT piece of the young warriors raj
ment. 1t is often made of many
colors and is bespangled with
looking glasses. small coins. bells
and beads. Arrayed in this at
tire, 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 a whole
week. But he never despairs. The
girls know why he wears that cloak
and why he peers at them from be-
meath its folds. Usually there are
from two to five squaw hunters to-
gether. IL one of them is noticed
favorably by a 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 another till the girl
finds a promising buck who has either
done some great deed or who is rich
enough in ponies or steers to REIN
burse the father for the loss of his
child or who is in "a position to earn
some sort of fame in wan OF in peace.
The agent usually ties the marital
knot. Whatever may be said about
some of the barbarous practices and
the uncleanliness of the Sioux and
CHEYENNE women, it is nevertheless a
fact thai they are, with are excep-
lions, industrious and yirtuous.
When they have married white men
they have proved to be economical
wives and good mothers.
Some Frenehmen's IL cas- of women
This is what some French authors
nave to say about pine Balzae
SAID; The simplest oma in the
world requires from even the greatest
man a little chdrldtdnefie. i.
have you never observed the manner
OF a woman when she is telling a little
untruth? A trifling deceit falls from
from her as lightly and as naturally
a the snow from heaven. If u woman
loves 4 man she forgives him every
thing, even his crimes; if she does not
love him, she forgives him nothing,
not even his v~irtues.n
Moliere declares that '.woman's
greatest virtue is to inspire love. All
her efforts are directed to that end.
and there is no woman so proud but
that she r~ejoices in her own heart
over h conquests that her eyes have
made"
Dlderot is of the opinion that a sort
OF secret bond exists among women,
as among the priests of one and the
same religion: They hate one an
other, but they protect each other"
Alfred de MuSset exclaiIns: II
know them. | know those charming,
mysterious creatures. Be sure that
they love TO have sand thrown in
their eyes, and the more ole throws
the better they like r."
"A inan guards tho secret oi an