The sun., 1901-03-17
Ay INDIAN GIRLS AMBITION
Wah ia waso. Now q stenoEr&uhcr, Ma, Enter
Radcliffe Callege.

CAMnmuCT, Mass March lC Nnh.,.
waso, a tull-hluoioI Indian gounS w,A ,
may soon enter Radcliffe College. Er~ .....
catIonm adviser IL Montagu" Chgmlo.l..
lately recorder Of the Lawrence 5 .a.eo
school at Harvard ara for many ycar, So.
retary Of the summer school. who Is ROW
connected with u business establishments d,
Boston. Thore is little romance Contested
with the matter
Wah-ta-waso's father was for a nur,h.-
OF years the Representative OF the Prnnavsh-
skik tribe Of Indians in the Maine Legsa-
tufe and the gil has only lately cone 20
Boston fiom her home on Indian Island
near Olotown, Me. A. a child Bright Eve,
Gs she is called in her native tongue. lea-nei
the rudimonts OF the English lany,l se from
the Sisters Of Charity In her community
After "A few years her English acquaintance.
began 10 call her Lucy Nicola, and u IL under
this name that she Is now employed as
stenographer in Mr. CEambegiaiu'- orca
from which post II is barely possible thar
she may in time reach college
Mr.. Chamberlain Is exceedingly intereEted
in the language aDd customs Of the eastern
Indians In the course Of his study ~ III,
Traditions OF his own family and tho4e o,
the Penobscot Indians he was led 20 Deney.
that Wah-ta-waso's ancestors once saved
the life Of u member OF his family Il l,
certain that Boston trader named Cham.
berlan, who was with the EngA-h 'orcs
during the French and Indian ATTACK on
! Ticonderoga, was there captured IN a hand.
to-hand conflict By powerful pcnob,,o,
| Indian and was trans ported 10 the Indian
/ village OF st Francis Oh the 81 liWI4rrs
| River where he was confined for soms
months
squaws and they resolved 10 .a.,., him 10
! freedom Under cover Of darkness he
trader was enabled through the kiuay Offices
! of some Indian women to rscap" A'erNari
! he became 4 man Of consequence iu Boston
and Montague Chamberlain Il on" 81 hi'
! descendants
Whether or not. wah- -'u-wnso + in -" d-ec'
! line OF descent from the woman clI""y IN
| strumental In efecting Chamh"rlaiu'- -. ease
II not yet esta ablished, but that She belongs
TO the sa ne tribe i certain, for the p"ngtsools
! returned after q time 10 their Original home
| in Maine and have lived there ever since
Miss Nicola is the first young woman Of o..
| tribe 10 leave the community l'" iur that y
the world She has had the advantage Of A
! high ac ool educat iOn and she siug- well Art
plays the piano. Her father IS dead and only
one unmarried sister remains 10 bind her 70
Balumore and New York n The a.' named
md gave many receptions IN her honor
And well they might for tits INDIAN maid =
20 is fresh, charming and altogether Ne"-
bred
Tho taste Of social lifs by no means TUNED
! her head She realizes that tho world s FOR
her a place 10 work In and she has settled
down TO her routine duties Ike az tie
women OF her tribe sis is painstlklns and
most industrious Rcmetimes. she ,orfess-s
the typewriting makes her very weary, hIt
that the indoor life has a. yet had no eject
| upon her magnificent health one has only ~
glance ht her 10 discover A beautiful rich
red color foods her dark skin, and hcr eyes,
daep and large show th I her Indian parents
did well to call her Wah-ta-waso
All the women Of her trlhe wear now, sNs
eay, European dress, and only on festival
| days array themselves IN 'he na'iv" c0slum"
The old marriage customs still obtain Even
to-day the girl must he proposed for hy no
rendering OF the wampLm 70 her parents,
and the girls OF the Penoh-cot tribe marry,
willy -nilly, the men picked out for them To
question as 10 how the American girl n ne
period impressed her Miss Nicola replied
Very many OF your girls seem 10 NE a..
tremely vain, and most disresuecIui In 'fe'r
manner toward their elders We Indian c.r,
nre never permitted 70 think mu'h E'o',
our looks and we certainly would me-, d'rsa
| OF conducting ourselves toward our old H., pA
as many Of the girls have seen lor" DO 10
you not think them very irrrevercnH
Miss Nicola is at present the quot IN Cam
| bridge of Nr Chamberlain and N'S Wo'fr'
| She IA 70 betaken soon 20 some OF ne EHtnlT.
! festivities and, II way il found 10 send her
! 10 the college NJ her choice Fay House vi.
| shelter another student as remarkable 10 her
! way as Helen Keller.