The Holbrook news., 1911-12-29

OEHNS
 will have the proper color and con
 sistency all the way through.
 After the mixture has 'ripened' the
 girls gather again to make it into
 beads. It is a black, viscous sub
 stance, thick enough to remain in any
 shape into which it may be rolled The
 moisture in it has been supplied by
 the juice of the rose petals, which
 runs out in surprising quantity during the process of grinding. and by the tincture of iron.
 The girls take small quantities of this viscous substance from the pans and roll them into pellets such as you see in this string. They are very deft at the work and very painstaking, not stopping until the pellet is perfectly round.
 These pellets are then pierced with hatpins. and are strung on the pins to dry. When a big beadmaling party Is given at our school there is a hatpin famine in Riverside, for the girls buy up all they can find at the stores.
 Then the Indian maidsns stretch strings across their bedrooms and from these strings they suspend the hatpins to allow the beads to dry. The process of drying consumes several days. and during this time the girls very jealously avoid raising dust in their queerly decorated rooms.
 When the beads are dry they are taken of the hatpins and the little rough spots caused by piercing them are carefully polished of You have then neatly-pierced, black, perma- nently rose-scented bead ready for the jeweler."
 Mrs Garfield has been in the gov ernment service for IT years as a teacher of Indians, first in the reser- vation schools and finally in pictur- esque Riverside, and she has an abun- dance of first-hand information of In dian life and character that is highly interesting.
 Learn White Mans Petty Crafts.
 One of her regrets is that the h. dian artisan, engaged in the making of blankets, baskets and other beauti- ful curios, is learning the vices of the white man, so that now inferior ar ticles are being made and sold so ex- tensively that only an expert is free from the danger of being swindled.
 Their education at the Sherman in stitute consists of the common school education, including the eighth grade, and in addition they are given indus trial training. Upon graduating from the school the Indians are at liberty to do as they please. Some of them go to the higher institutions of learning. such as the Carlisle school, and some, whose parents can afford it, enter other large American colleges.
 Others go back to their reservar hons, where they become teachers in the reservation schools or enter into the active life of the tribe, where their superior education soon makes them leaders. Still others. attracted by their summer work, hire themselves put as skilled servants to the Cali 'ornians.
 A few go to the cities and become part of the great active world of America, putting themselves upon an equal footing and in competition with white men in their chosen trades or professions. Many of these Indians rave more than made good in the bat le of the big city.
 Romances begun at the school ire Iuently culminate in marriage after graduation, many a stalwart Hiawatha laving proudly claimed bashful Min lehaha. Occasionally an Indian girl narries a white man. or an Indian nan white girl, but, according to drs. Canfeld. such cases are rare fin California. Mrs Canfeld believes the government is doing a great work at riverside and at similar institutions.