Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
INDIAN Chief
DIVORCES BRIDE
HUACHUCA SEES THE END OF
ROMANCE
Modern Methods Of Serving Dinners
Fall to Make Favorable lm-
preston on Leader Of the
Noble Red Men
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
HUACHUCA, Arlz,, Aug. 25.-Whoop-
de-Doo, one Of the last scions of a one
time royal line of Indian blood, ut
tered the magic Apache syllable
"Skidoo" to his sixth wife yesterday.
Whoop-de-Doo also gave expressions to
other utterances, but his tribesmen say
that these are idiomatic, and are latter
day Apache for early American pro-
family.
Some months ago. in the little puebla
of the Apaches a wedding took place
in which Not-Yet- t-But-Soon, charm
ing Apache maiden, and Whoop-de-Doo
the chief of the warrior band, became
as one. Since that time Whoop-de-Doo
and his bride have lived a life almost
ideal in its simplicity and sincerity.
Their existence was occasionally
marred, 1t Is true, by spats in which
the royal pair took part with great
vigor. but WhOop-de-Doo by judicious-
'ly administering the hide RATA to his
bride on such occasions, properly re-
Itained his position as head of the fam
ily
Not-Yet-But-Soon recently made a
long journey to the home of her fore
fathers. While in that far region
Woop-de-D Doos fair bride ate in a
four bit table dhote in Tucson. The
method of serving meals In courses
appealed to the dusky daughter of the
mesa and she made a mental note that
when she got back to her spouse he
should be treated to the new way of
eating in installments.
Bride Prepares Feast
Yesterday Not-Y t-But-Soon return
ed to Huachuca She sold all her
baskets. A feast was in order to cele-
brate the reunion of the chief and his
bride.
No one but Not -But-Soon her
self should prepare the feast and all
the viands should be cooked by her
own little brown hands. Quickly the
minute for the signal to the braves to
congregate for the eatfest drew nigh
and little Not-Yet- -But-Soon's heart
beat proudly for her lot it was to pre-
pare for her lord and his friends such
a repast as was never seen south of
the Arizona line.
A succulent soup made from Gila
monsters and young chickens was the
first item on Not-Y -But-Soon's bill
of fare, and when the Apaches had
squatted upon the ground this soup
it was that the hostess passed out.
Each of the warriors tasted the
broth and found it good. AS soon as
they had a fair idea of what it tasted
like, Not-Yet- -But-Soon and her at
tendant maidens who served as cup
bearers, snatched the bowl and enriched
the arid soil with it's steaming con-
tents.
Whoop-de-Doo gazed with deep dis
favor upon his bonny bride, but for
bore to beat her in the presence of the
company. Next on the menu was a
succulent entree of frijoles, with
chunks of dark indefinite meat sprink-
led through the mixture. Again did
the Apache band attack the dish only
TO have it taken from them when they
had barely tasted the contents. The
bowls full of frijoles were cast to the
pariah dogs, which, like buzzards.
greedily eyed the repast. Again Whoop-
de-Doo cast unfaVorab BILE eyes upon his
lesser half, but Not-Y -But-Soon was
wrapped up in her enterprise and
little did che heed the black looks of
her lord
Divorce Quickly Follows
Then was the final straw heaped upon
.Whoop-de-Doo's unwilling back The
beaming squaw passed out large sec
tions of Arizona bakery pie, than
which there is no more unsucculent, if
one may coin a word, compound.
To the assembled savages here indeed
was the orowning glory of the feast
and their untutored hearts glowed with
anticipatory pleasure. When each of
the Apaches had his slice of the canned
apple and soggy dough and had taken
a bite of the quarter section. again
came the squaws f1ocking about to
seize the remnants of the pie
Whoop-de-Doo, who had in meek
and humble silence borne the efforts
of his wife, was then indeed overcome
by the ehormity of the offense which
Not Yet-But-Soon had committed, and
taking the soup Iadle in his strong
right hand he roundly beat the un-
happy partner of his joys and sorrows
All that night Not-Yet- But Soon