The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-12-23

sQuaw In the tribe. went TO live with
Warren Rodney when he finished his
sbin on Elder creek. That was before
the gold fever reached the Black Hills.
and Rodney built the cabin that he
might fish and hunt and forget the
east and why he left II. There were
reasons why he wanted TO forget his
Identity as a white man IN his play at
being an Indian. In the first fare Of
her woman's kingdom the half breed
squaw was pretty. She was proud. too,
Of her white man. the house he had
built her and the girl papoose with
blue eyes. Furthermore. she had been
taught to serve man meekly. for he
was the lord of creation.
Rodney talked Sioux to her He had
all but forgotten he was white man.
The girl papoose ran about the cabin
brown and bare but for the bead
Jacket Singing Stream had made for
her In the pride Of her maternity.
Rodney called the little girl judith"
Her Indian mother never guessed the
significance OF the strange name that
she could not say. hut made Mt least
ten soft singing syllables Of. IN the In
dian way. The little Judith greeted
her father In strange lispings; Warren
Rodney was FAR from unhappy In play
Ing at primitive man. This occasional
into conditions primeval endured for
seven SHOWS" as the Indian tongue
hath II. Then the squaw began to
break, after the manner of the women
Of her fathers people She had begun
her race with time a decade after
Warren Rodney, and she had outdis-
tanced him by decade.
And then the Tumlins came from
Tennessee to the Black Hills They
came In an OK cart, and the days of
their journey were more than two
years. They had stopped In Ohio and
again In Illinois; they had Travelled on
and on across half continent in the
wake Of vanishing sky line. The
vague westward impulse was Turing
them to California, but they waited in
Dakota that their starved stock might
fatten, and while they rested them
selves from the long journey Warren
Rodney made the acquaintance of Sal
ly Tumlin. who rallied him on being
'squaw man."
Warren Rodney had almost forgotten
the sorcerles of the women OF his PEG.
pie; he had lived so long with brown
woman, who spread no silken snares.
Sallie's bushes stirred a multitude of
dead thlngs-the wiles of pale women,
all strength in weakness, fragile flow
ers for tender handling - the suuaw
had grown as withered as a raisin.
Now. Sally Tumlin had no convic-
tions about life but that the world
owed her "a home OF her own" Her
mother had forged the bolt OF this
particular maxim at an early date. and
sally saw from precocious observa-
tlon that the business of women was
home getting. to which end they must
be neat and sweet and sparng Of
speech. After the home was forthcom-
Ing then indeed might woman take
ease in slippers and wrapper. and II
is surely a wife's privilege TO speak
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