The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-25
ABOUT STRANGE WOMEN
L. l.. Dyehe Tells About the People of
North Greenland


Professor Dyche's lecture on Savage
Women" at Garfield hall last night JUS
titled everything that had been previously
said of it by Mrs. Carter and her friends.
Four or five hundred people attended it
and none of them viii deny that it was
the best sixteen cent chats all it cost
entertainment| ever given in this or any
other city in the state 1t certainly slim
ulated the interest of those present in the
other FIVE future lectures in the course.
Those present made an ideal audience
all splendid listeners and eager for
knowledge of a people distant in latitude
and equally distant in habits and man
ners.
The lecture was illustrated by steropti-
con views, which aided greatly in the
comprehension of the subject. Professor
Dyche is a plain spoken non-technical
popular lecturer who uses no linguistic
frills in what he has to say. He is
Kansan and talks like one. throwing in
here and there at proper and convenient
intervals and in droll language a piece of
humor that was refreshing. He began
by having an outline map Of Greenland
thrown on the canvas and designating
the points of interest in relation to his
subject He showed practically nothing
but women and vouched for it that they
were women; for otherwise no man
would know but what they might be men
not. at least from the clothes they wore.
The points of interest in the lecture.
briefly told. are these:
There is but very little fuel in Green
land and hence food is in nearly every
case eaten raw.
The women do q great dear Of work
with very few utensils. They skin the
game caught by the men-seals. ducks.
walruses. etc.,-and prepare the hides for
use as wearing apparel by means Of
chewing the inner sides TO set all the fat
and oil out of them. They make the
clothing. attend 70 the domestic duties
and along the rivers and streams catch
small fish by the thousands in nets. dry
ine them and storing them in piles by
having walls built around them as a pro-
lection from dogs.
The men do nothing but fish. going out
TO sea in small boats. made OF hides.
Sometimes they are thrown beyond float
ing ice waves and often perish. In this
case their wives grow frantic with grief
for four or five days. tearing their hair.
rolling over and performing other demon
STATIONS expressive Of grief. They so
into mourning by putting q piece Of black
ribbon or their hair or in case she de-
sired 20 marry again piece Of black
and white ribbon The maidens always
wear a red ribbon in their hair and mar
ried women blue ribbon.
The marriage ceremony is an unique
one. Tho gentleman never selects wife
in his own village. As soon as he Is able
10 make a living for a family he goes
into a neiEhboring viuase and falls in a
ut Of love before some likely girl She
Is then penned up fer some time in a
house, sort Of 6ug-out or burrow IN
the ground-and when the bride day.
comes he goes there and crawls in II
is ia the play that the bride-to-be shall
Sc strenuously object that she fights him
Of he then goes cat ana gets his dogs
and sled and when they are haruessed mp
he goes ia again. overcomes her. ties her
hands ard feet. places her on the sled
and hauls her 70 MS own village. Tha;
completes the ceremony Of marriage. The
whole village gives them a wedding feast.
Next day. or later on, II they don't forget
IT, they so before minister 81 the Cos
pei and are married in due form This
feature OF the union however, Is not i'm