Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11

time II life. and now In the sutanlh Of
ny days my name Is Dennis. Here
GA the Chsrokee strip am al the tine
brought IA contac1 with inferior people
VINO have never been east. since have
been east myself l can see how rough
aud coarse Vs ara here Ia the west.
We are earnest and Open hearted, bal
we lack refinement.
We had a little merrymaking here
when got home from w ashingt0n, ID. {.
Fungus Tamarac, a Brule Sioux who
II spending the summer with rs, drank
a bottle OF iodine that l got Ia Pitts
burg for my rheumatic
Those who opened him with suitable
exercises said that ON the inside he
looked ike a MaFdy Graw. whatever
that l..
want yoa 10 become refined and get
good manners. The government viii
pay for the bulk Of your education, bat
| want you also 10 learn etiquette and
roulette while east. Our table manners,
TOO, here on the Cherokee Strip are very
tart and tscky, find Even Black Hawk.
the great orator, while dining with Lord
Baltimore, | am told. put sugar and
cream on his olives and blew the pltG
across the room at a mark
IL is such things as these that have
kept the Indian back and induced people
10 hesitate about inviting him 10 the
annual dinner of the bong tong.
Sitting Bull was Just beginning 70 OBJ
tain social recognition at Washington
when in reaching across the table one
day at the White House b help himself
u the presidents kummel he dragged
the corner Of his Pullman blanket
through the butter by mistake, aud then,
with d merry laugh, wiped II on his hair.
This afterward iTnbittered his whole
life, and he hardly went out any more
after that, regarding life at the capital
rs hollow aud artificial.
IL has been the unfortunate history Of
our eminent red men that whenever
their talents have thrown them into
good society they have almost univer-
sally corked themselves Look AT Red
Shirt, in Paris, and Poor Dog. in London.
Il is but repetition of our sad history
as people.
Red Shirt during the engagement of
the Wild West show in France was
invited to dine with President CarnoU
and Ferdinand de Lesseps-
do Les Seps-at the restaurant of Bra
bant, the French Delmonico, and when
the pale green pistache ice cream came
on, and the finger bowl, Red Shirt, the
great warrior. who looks almost exactly
like Napoleon, the first emperor, in
order 10 show Carnot and his gang that
he had travelled and observed a great
deal, evidently took the ice cream brick
for cake of CASTLE soap and bathed
with il freely in the finger bowl, coming
out after awhile 10 run along the bank
and restore his circulation.
Nv dear son, the Indian nation has
suffered on account Of these things, for
they get into the papers and hurt us.
You must learn not only the habits of
the Modes, the Persians and the Free
Will Baptists, but how TO hold your
knife at table. That is what you are
there for. That is what l am bee6ng
the old COW for. That is what / an
going 10 wear your old baseball suit
next TO me this winter for. That is why
your mother weeps at night and wears
your pajamas by day.
Poor Dog hurt our people as much in
England as Black Hawk did rs good by
his speeches. He was invited to dine in
the royal grounds, they tell me, and
while the party was strolling through
the grounds, the queen having been
frightened by mouse, Poor Dog, think
ing to show his gallantry, gave chase to
the mouse, and when he caught it under
the chair Of the Princess Alexandria ate il
in order TO show her majesty that there
was no deception about it.
These matters of history connected
with the rise and fall of tho red man
give me pain in the neck. You may
redeem your people, my son, and aston
ish these pilgrims who came here to our