Arizona republican., 1892-01-09
an average hos holds i50 oranges. About half of the crop will be sent by rail to the western states
BEAUTY AMONG INDIANS.
The Women Cannot Be Compared tO Whites, bat the Children Are Pretty.

| The Women Cannot Be Compared to | Whites, bat the Children Are Pretty. The Blackfeet are poor enough, in all conscience, from nearly every stand point from which we judge civilized communities, but their tribal possessions include several horses to each head of family; and though the majority of their ponies would fetch no more than twenty dollars apiece out there, even this gives them more wealth per capita than many civilized people can boast. They have managed also to keep much of the sav- age paraphernalia of other days in the form of bucRskin clothes, elaborate beadwork, eagle headdresses, good guns and the outlandish adorRments of their chiefs and medicine men. Hundreds of miles from any except such small and distant towns as Calgary and Medicine Hat, and kept on the reserve as much as possible, there has come to them less damage by white mems vices than per haps most other tribes have suffered.
 Therefore it was still possible for me to see in some tents the squaws at work painting the clan signs on stretched skins, and making beadwork for nocca- sins, pouches, "chaps," and the rest And in one tepee found a young and rather pretty girl wearing suit of buck skin, such as Cooper and all the past historians of the Indians knew as the conventional every day attire of the red skin. say saw the girl in tent but, pa a nff fn gla nI .r doors, and with true feminine art man. aged to allow her blanket to fall open just the instant it took to disclose the precious dress beneath it.
 l asked to be taken into the tent to which she went, and there, at the inter- preter's request, she threw off her blanket. and stood, with little display of honest coyness, dressed like the tradi- tional and the theatrical belle of the wilderness. The soft yellowish leather, the heavy fringe upon the arms, seams, and edges of the garment, her beautiful beaded leggings and moccasins, formed so many parts of very charming pie ture. For herself, her face was comedy, but her figure was-an Indians. The figure of the typical Indian woman shows few graceful curves.
 The reader will inquire whether there was any real beauty, as we judge it, among these Indians. Yes, there was; at least there were good looks if there was not beauty, saw perhaps dozen fine looking men, half dozen attractive girls, and something like a hundred children of varying degrees of comeli- ness-pleasing, pretty or beautiful. had some jolly romps with the children, and so came to know that their faces and arms met my touch with the smooth ness and softness of the flesh of our own little ones at home. I was surprised at this; indeed, the skin of the boys was of the texture of velvet.
 The madcap urchins, what riotous fun they were having! They flung arrows and darts, ran races and wrestled, and in some of their play fairly swarned all over one another, until at times one lad would be buried in the thick of a writh- ing mass of legs and arms several feet in depth. Some cf the boys wore only ''G strings Gas, for some reason, the breech clout is commonly called on the prairie), but others were wrapped in old blankets and the larger ones were already wear ing the Blackfoot plume lock, or tuft of hair tied and trained to stand erect above the forehead The babies within the tepees were clad only in their complex ions.-Julian Ralph in Harper's.