New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-27
LIFE OUT OF DOORS.
Some Lq,cs a White Nan Can Learn
from an Indian

q an absolutely longing for February 8 when
car board train straight for the desert and THIS
troublesome cold viii leave ne exclaimed George
Wharton James. throwing Lack bis shoulders
expanding his chest and guIplnE Is copious draughts
OF Deluor.a7's air. And the two Or three hundred
women who had gathered yesterday forenoon TO
hear him lecture under the auspices of The New
York CIV Indian Association on what the White
Mar Can Lean from the Indian" haa q minutes
vision o.. wide spaces and sun drenohed skies and
unbreGrhed ar
81 don't know where ny cold viii 60" he added
hu-orousIy-"co1e back U New-York where 7
caught g. probably 7 never have cold out there
Its only wien get back into your steam heated
houses your civilized life that 7 suffer this way"
One Of the lessons = appeared early in M
Ja-es's eloquent address, which the white man
may learn OF the Indian is love for the out OF
doors" and al that goes with it-sleeping IN the
open deep breathing. nose breathing.
There's great tide q nature study sweeping
over the country said lLr James. but the Indian
has been living with nature all these centuries
He thinks out ~ doors ne knows the tracks OF
animals the signs r tae weather. every flower;
BE worshtps out Of doors. no even sleeps out OF
doors
People say night air IS bad" went on the lect-
Urer laughing 1T ls-.- tue Do I look like a
sick man Yet for twenty years I've slept out
doors don't even know enough 70 go in when It
rams. but JUST stay our and ler u 90 on raining.
Nose breathing Is a cardinal point in the edu-
cation q the Young Indian. according 10 the lect-
urer VINO described how the first act OF the Indian
mother when her newborn baby is placed IN her
arms IS 70 pinch rs lips together. When some
ming more rlan I.ncllng IS necessary buckskiu
sa1dages are employed 70 hold the jaws and the
LPs together
You cant walk along ths New-York streets"
vas Mr.. JaUess comment" without seeing children
s1d men and women. too whose dull eyes and
7lsty compilations tel that they breathe through
tas- mouths. The Indian knows nothing OF ca
taFrh, o. consumption Let rs learn from him,
10 matter Il what cost. 20 breathe through the
lose"
Nose breathing Ied tire lecturer 10 deep breathing
lie thrt lesson which the white man may learn
o. TIE red man. and an Interesting description
Beloved o. ne Divine Sarah's method Of breathing.
bought & .-1nt seat expressly 10 watch her
oieathe,' Ar. James said That woman has no
Fa-st-ine she h-eathes aere' CDlacing his hands
& bis sides n me reghbo-hood OF the first floating
M not Up here Ceaying his chest IN the frantic.
pTsat1ess fashion o. the average woman). II
watched Leg -l-.- two thousand people without
--sag her voice What made her voice resonant
vas that great reservoir o. air
livery Indian Hrea tH-s deep and low Among
1-l-s ne Young men run twenty or thirty
.--iss before breakfast a. matter OF religion.
+-eE one Hop Who ran forty miles hoed his corn
-' and then ra- forty miles back all IN one day.
--e was seventy years old. And then we call the
--1- 4szg IL s NOT lazy-t!ll he gets civilizedl'
Ap1op9s ~ sun baths. 20 which the Indian IS
t'-.l'e1 along with his hygienic breathing, Mr..
.t1es Interested his audience by telling them
low Indians 1,y white people for being 80
s7s1aea OUT end held up the brown life" as the
-S---ai-- life Hn IrtIe OF the red mans health
- attributed Z. MS way q chewing his food Mr..
s told how once. when he rode with band
ZIG VarI-tr. The only sustenance Of the indians
- small sack ~ parched corn which each car
On such fare as this they could cover 200
- caE-- frEhtfUI stunt" requiring the
49, strength This fare and this life enable
Co.. enjoy green old age Nj James
E-.E- Ben Ezra" in support OF his coIlte!l-
IN ~ age was The best part OF me- auCtAE,
-..--i-- more 10 me now than ever. II is
t5.p-e if teach children that when they grow
- - Wen 100. Nine President turn
h. ---7 ROBERT Harris who was presiding, i
ttt, nave me pleasure ~ speaking from THIS
-- H-t, -gl N the chair"
tlt-- --..@.r-rE and Indian hospitality we're aIso
I,ss-I ~ e-l.-atiou and imitation In fact, the
&c. -ate- extremely well at the hands or the
CO.. VINO warned his hearers against rldlcuIe
q t--+I ana fre flCrs n writer's whose knowledge
p-- -i--..- IS gathered from the windows or a
- ',s- r7.e-rT-fve years Of intimacy with md
ts- -S-.- a-r James. y say without heslJauoh
I-5.--. -L-arreE writer has UNDERSTOOD t.e
800 aa--rs Felimore Cooper ftls p'rIi'ails
Lef---.'--IrH true the Indian soul. they are
~ =. me- truth and Renuineness.
eltsrt-'1 L lovely indian basketry followed Z no
= --...tili, which held 70 interest the pGbhc
t1T -r-'---a- and the work Of the Indian Asso-Ia-
1ez =. Il. given at DelmOutCD'B, through the kiHd-
or, 81 --ts henyr Clark COe There IS 10 be q con-
~ - p-ie benefit n the organization on the even
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