Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-06

called which win be royal purple or pea green.
The popular fancy will be struck and the
Washers who hang around the camps Just as
dudes do in front Of the theaters make compli-
mentary illusions to the lady's good Judgment.
Then old Red Cloud or some other acknowl-
edged leader of fashion remarks to his wife,
" 'Little-Toes-Turn-In has a very stylish dress
on today" and before anybody realizes it the
entire camp is raging for calico of the pattern
which has been introduced by the lady whose
name Ii not an index to her personal charms.
BEADS AND RIBBONS.
T. There is continuous demand for beads.
Every squaw does more or less bead work and
most of them do great deal of it. The ten
dency is toward the more expensive varieties OF
beads Ribbons are popular and SO is lace of
the commoner kind. Nickel combs are always
to the hair and for the same reason cocoa oil
and vaseilne are frequently called for. Once in
a while an Ogallala dude buys a cake of fancy
toilet soap and when he uses it is the center Of
large and interested audience. Paints. in
powdered form, never have a chance to spoil in
the store. for the demand is steady. Yellow is
strong favorite, dark chrome goes rapidly.
indigo is i'll common use and the ma
lority OF purchasers have an abiding faith
IN the attractive qualities of a little suitably
displayed yermillion. The Indian has an affec-
ton for that which glitters SO brass match
boxes. brass beads, brass bells and brass backed
mirrorsEall cheap-are readily disposed Of. A
good knife is in the possession of every Indian,
male or female, and they only want good ones;
1t good one is not procurable they will do with
out until that which was lacking-the knife or
the money-is available.
WHAT INDIANS SMOKE.
Every Indian worships tobacco. Give the
Sioux a suficiency of beef and tobacco and
there will be no more war between them and
vnrA cd tata be- a. x,r& %
baccO from the government in these days, so
they sell what little else they do have and with
the proceeds procure cigarettes and tobacco.
1t used to be that the red man was satisfied
with dried red willow bark, but he has
been civilized very materially and
now insists on the best brands of the most thor
oughly cultivated and manufactured weed.
Some of the older fellows still mix the willow
with their smoke-they prefer the Kinnick-
kinnick-but the younger men take the to-
bacco straight. Their love for cigarettes
amounts almost to passion, and yet the Indian
is master of the situation. He can smoke
enough cigarettes to kill every dude on the face
Of the earth, go on the war path for a couple of
months and starve, and vet turn up with a
physique that seems uninjured. The sugges-
ton that unlimited cigarettes were cheaper
than soldiers thus falls to the ground and be-
comes valueless.
In the line Of edibles and turntables rice,
sugar, coffee, prunes, and tea are the leading
fayorites One or two of the more wealthy buy
canned fruits Of the highest grade. l saw
an Indian sell pipe for 81 yesterday and his
first purchase was jar of imported marmalade.
Sirnps are popular and SO is almost any kind
of candy. Fancy crackers and cakes sell rap
idly 30 long as the Indians have money.
INDIANS AS BUYERS.
Trading with an Indian is slow work unless
you will give him his price at the first jump.
He ia n rather clever b,fsness man and will
hold his figures away up if he thinks you wan;
the article he has TO sell, When he enters a
store to buy anything his first move is to get
his money changed. Perhaps he has a dollar.
He gets four quarters for it and then proceeds
to make his purchases singly. Traders some
times endeavor to make him buy the two OF
three articles he needs all in one bunch, but he
steadfastly refuses to complicate his accounts
and insists OH each purchase being perfectly
unembarrassed. He is not an expert mental
arithmetician, and he knows it.
GEO. H. HARRIEs.