Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-10
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Domestic Reindeer IN Alaska.

Domestic Reindeer In Alaska.
The reindeer in Arctic and sub
Arctic lands combines more varied
and greater benefits to millions of peo-
pie than any other animal. furnishing
food, clothing, house, furniture, house
hold utensils, weapons Of hunting and
war and transportation. 81
Among the first essentials of life is
food. To hundreds of thousands of
people reindeer milk, cheese and meat
is their principal diet; its marrow and
tongue are considered great delica-
cies;; its blood, mixed with the con-
tents Of its stomach, makes a favorite
dish, and it's intestines are cleaned,
filled with tallow and eaten as a sau-
sage.
Does man need clothing? Entire
communities wear reindeer skin cloth
ing seWed with reindeer sinew, using
reindeer horn needles and thimbles.
With the thermometer registering
from 40 to Ia degrees below zero rein
deer fur mittens and boots protect the
hands and feet.
For shelter from the inclemency Of
an Attic winter reindeer skins cover
the outside of their large tents; rein
deer skins compose the inner parti-
tons separating the family bedrooms;
reindeer skins make all their bedding,
reindeer hair fills their pillows and
reindeer skin carpets cover their
floors; reindeer horn makes many Of
the household implements and rein
deer bones soaked in seal oil helps
exc out their scant supply OF fuel.
Reindeer raWhide takes the place Of
iron bolts in fastening together the
runners, knees ~and cross-pieces Of
their sleds, and reindeer skins form
the sails to their boats. Sheldon Jack
son in March Recreation.
The Bohemian for March is made
up of bright, keen stories, crisp, en-
tertafning studies of American person
atty, and articles of satire and Ilumor
that viii make their appeal to readers
Of every intelligent class. Here and
There has thirteen witty stories Of
/ actors and literary men and women,
Illustrated with as many full-pages por-
traits. The short stories are: sPri.
vate Warrington's Obedience, by w.
A. Frost; The Little God and Two
Boys, by j. w. Kennard; Lost
1 Mountain, by Henry K. Schofield;
Cupid & Co." by w. Carey Wonder.
"; The Little Chump,' by Zoe Ander.
son Norris; aThe Soubrette and the
Boy, by Miss F. H. Lea; and .sThe
Coward, by J. e. Goodman. @. r
Peters has second series of Little
Glimpses of Some Well known Artists
that is wonderfully interesting for its
revelation Of some unusual men and
methods. My Yesterdays" by vii
ton Lackaye, is characteristicallJ
tterse. witty and sarcastic. It's arraign
naent Of the British for their snobbisI
treatment of American actors is cut
ting in the extreme How Belascs
4 Stages Play makes the reader
realize the great amount OF work ami
1 skill that goes to the making o
4 Americas chief form of entertainment
With the women, particularly the IN
married women, Miles Bradford's cook
! ing article, How to Catch Husban,
with Saucepan will find an I'm
mediate response. Bohemiana, witt
n Edward Marshalfs delightful "Glimps
u es OF Unnatural History" anothe
satire by Edith M. Blanchard, entitle
The Murderers,s which is display q
y gossipers in action, and Bric-a-Bra.
\ Is as funny and diyerting as ever.
One Condition.
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