The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-05
THE ! ] !: WOODEN Lon, G,
No Longer Regarded / as Successful
Magnet for Cigar Store Ii
~. . :>r. y Trade. : = r @ ~ -
The Tickle Public JUST Grew Tired
of Him and His Bizarre.
y, RS Gard. .'%e*s,! -: -.

), The wooden INDIAN; brick tinted OF
complexion, with head, dress, of red eagle:
feathers, cloak Of blue sealskin. or yell
lowish chinchilia, pure white moccasins:
on his. feet, a crusaders sword In his
right hand, and an air Of mobile feroclty.
is no longer esteemed an evidence that
tobacco can be purchased in the imme-
date vicinity. ~ T:ias |as =" !.
Why the wooden Indian must CO.. cor,
rather, why he has already gone, nis, not
clear 1t is no clearer than the sreason
why girls who looked, So sweetly; trina In
little bolero Jackets scarcely reaching to
their waists are still more Circean :tnow
in Monte Carlo coats that sweep the
ground. Because" is again the reason;
"just because - TheHIndian sign Is guilt
less. His wooden soul remains. unlocked.
He is simply out of fashion. 9.s>ae
t.. No sign has been more thoroughly test,
bed and none has given wider or more pro
longed satisfaction. From athe time%sithat
Sir Walter Raleigh first ifset the Virgin,
Queen a -sneezings and, az swearing at I'VE
,foule smoke, = thatrhe eFdranke, "t-the re-
sponstbility for narcotic pain and pleasure:
has been cast upon the aboriginal, Ameri-
can, upon that Indian who was presumed
| to be East until he was discovered to be
West. ,..n~ :. :<j~w 1922
| Naturally, therefore, the;agaily tinted
| sign blossomed in every cline to convey
the makers idea of a genuine American
~~A' -
fancy that this lonely stranger could not
have wandered far from = the Smoke
weed" so essential to his comfort. =
| AS many wood carvers, SO" many Ind
dams, in the converse tional phrase Of DR..
Anthem. But had Signor Colombo en-
| countered such spparitions of a Friday
morning on his little island, he: would
! have promptly left it,to the cats.+ At
| length the carver's recipe was fixed: In
making wooden Indian Econtrive any
thing that; would not obe recognized in
wigWatn,. or canoe, by :ipapoose, or ;by
sqhaws Throw; in a.few5 bristlingt feath-
ers, perhaps necklace Oft<bealSs %cfaws
and never omit mOccasins. Details more
ella borately correct would mark the carver
as Schoolcraft among his fellow artists
Wooden Indians have been made even
In America, they have been Sold and ex-
hibited even in Minnesota, that wore
tunics and doublets of rich velvet hemmed
with gold, and that were armed with Cos
sack lances.
| Yet these vagaries aroused no public
protest. No art commission ever said
the statues were lacking in dignity and
| propriety of conception And pipe mix
| lures lost nothing of their sweetness at
| the sign Of the blue black Indian whose
| buffalo robe was joined with silver but
| tons. -:
'.'',' h. Not the Indians Fault. -,
n,. .:trNo,4 there was nothing the matter with
the wooden, INDIAN said a Wholesale to-
bacconist, this morning. He was all
right. And he's all right yet in many
countries But in America he's practi-
cally back number. People are tired of
| looking at him, that's all.
II they have to look at him at all.
| they'd rather see his sister, which sounds
a bit Hibernian. 1 mean that the Indian
| girl has cut out the brave in those places
| where only redskin sign will do. There S
| hor &c oh sS
too much like morocco-b bound u Greek
statue to satisfy the w. c. HnU.. >:;tr.
But as a rule the public don't want
either Mr.. 10 or Miss Lo: IT, it comes
| to.a choice iof outsiders, they'll take a
1FH!urk, instead of an Indian--a fat Jolly
4 Tuflt'ih ta7turban as bread as tlfis ,siaile,
+ smoking away at garden hose.
! But the real "favorites In tobacco
1 statuary are. the dude and the cowboy.
| The steer 'puncher is especially admired
|Hfurtherleast, where the people have met
him only. through literary introductions:
So his buckskin trousers and his 8-incl,
i gun get more attention In New England
college. than any Athenian casts at the
! village, ilibrary:
The dude, too, is supposed by, many a
young customer Of the trade to picture
real life In a great CITY, The only trouble
with the dude is that he must wear
ordinary, costume and his rags, instead of
being strictly down TO- date are, more like
d ~ to be five years behind the automobile.
| Why, over on the East Side to-day, there
q dude with tooth pick shoes and skin
tight trousers. I don't know what his
date u.s., but he. doesn't suggest fresh,
new stock of goods in the store that he is
| advertising. .....<. -
=: Puck In Cast Iron, - >.
l. Then we sell the little cast iron Puck,
He's more. the representative of a par
ticular brand. perhaps, than Of tobacco in
general. although he might be considered
to be the symbol of both nicotine and
mischief. f.
ITO tell the truth, no sort of figure is in
great demand at present by retail deal
ers. They prefer ordinary signs as right
as they can get them, and in cities the
ambition of every dealer is to surround his
:: shop with all kinds Of announcements
i spelled out with electric lamps, y,zf,,r-
sclothe Your Boys at The "P1yn1outf."
= Correct fall dress-head to foot.
y Nh GTpr ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS