Evening journal., 1899-09-18
NO GOOD sQuAWs

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INDIANS READ BY MRS. WILL
LIAM NJ. FIELD AT GRACE SUN
DAY SCHOOL.
After several weeks vacation Grace
Sunday school reopened yesterday af-
ternoon and Mrs. William NJ. Field
read an interesting paper on New
Mexico. describing the trip from which
she and Mr.. Field had recently return
led. In the course of her reading Mrs.
Field said.
Americans travel the wide world
over In search OF the new and the won
derful, forgetting sometimes that with
in our own fair land, scarcely eighty
hours ride by rail from the Atlantic
coast, there lies a territory-New Mexi-
co--nearly 800 miles square, which
combines historic. picturesque and ro-
mantle elements with magnificent
scenery. equal to any other. This Is
a country nearly century older IN Eu-
ropean civilization than our side OF the
continent and several centuries older
in weird standardization and relig-
ion OF It's own. Coronado. who went
northward in search of the tabled
wealth OF the Quivera, lured by the
myth OF the seven cities OF Cibola' and
Nunez de Vaca, sent out for further ex-
plOrations by COrtez after the conquest
OF Mexico, found IN the various parts
of the barren wastes and rugged noun
tains OF the regions they conquered
and called New Spain, ouriously in
telligent people. They had walled cit
les OF well-built houses, cattle and
crops, a municipal order, q religious
form, and fought the invaders with
great bravery to retain their lands and
Pueblos, and to-day. with all the
changes this continent has seen since
then, the Pueblo Indians OF New Mexi-
CO live In their three and five-stOried
houses. content with a single room, tin
the land in the same primative man
ner, and carry their babies on their
backs in the self same fashion OF the
past centuries.
"The climate Is delightful. The
crisp air inhaled. more than a mile
nearer the heaYens than where we now
stand though IL makes the breathing
rapid and the heart beat more rapidly
soon proves its manifest tonic quail
ties This glorious sunshine dissipates
malaria from the system and pervades
body and soul with its cheer. It is call
ed the land OF sunshine, because the
average weather reports read thus: One
hundred and eighty-seven days OF un.
clouded sky; 139 days when sunshine
predominates and thirty-nine cloud!
days, IN hardly one Of which the SUI
did not shine for a short Time Their
is but little humidity in the atmos
phere and a fog was never known.
There are more than 400 Indians h
the village of Toas. The houses ar
built on either side OF a small stream
which serves alike for drinking an
household uses. laundry, cattle an
ponies, and also irrigates the land. TIL
houses are built of adobe, or sun-drie
bricks, and when the ravages of tn
weather of yeaR causes any part {
decay or crumble, there Is no though
OF repair, but a new room is built o
the most convenient part of the built
/ ing, making startling architecture,
features. Il is said the Indians {
Toas object to letting their femal
children go to the schools, as it maxi,
them no good squaws' when the
4 grow up.
Like the rest Of the territory, SAM
i Fe is largely under Catholic inhuenc
being the resident place of an arcl
bishop. and having a fine cathedral.
''The Christian Brothers have chars
Of a large institution for theologiar
and boys. the Sisters Of Loretto have
school OF 200 girls. and the Sisters ,
u Charity of the Order of st. Vincer
provide for and have entire charge of
hospital and orphanage and a sanitaI
ium, which Is the best boarding pla,
in Santa Fe. The children at the o.
phanage are OF all creeds and color
and are taught to do all kinds OF hous
7 work. Their training seemed about 4
good kind OF missionary work as
/, have seen anywhere by an denomin'
b ton
New Mexico is I'm a transition stat
a sort OF survival of the fittest' perio
! and after the dawn of a new centui
r many things which seem slow az
q quaint and pleasant to the tourist Z
% day, will be but a memory and a hi
{ tory in the land OF sunshine, silen
S and abode"
q During the afternoon a fine music
5 program was rendered and Frank
Y Mason. sang a solo.