Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-09-19
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tain OF Interest to Readers
According to Mr.. Owen Wilson, in
the Worlds Work" for September.
the old dogmatic formula that there is
no good Injun but a dead Injun. was
true Of the Pima tribe Of Arizona.
only when they were outrageously de-
prived of their water supply by white
| settlers. When these rapacious
neighbors had diverted the ella river
from the reservation to make garden
spots Of their own bare fields and
when, for three years successfully the
Pimas had seen their crops grow up
only TO wither and die before the har-
vest, they became very bad Indians
indeed. They drank and beat their
wives and occasionally killed a white
man. Then Congress, in a fit of gen
erosity or Of prudence, legislated for
them q liberal water supply. This
consists of a canal and a series Of
wells through which the water is
pumped by electrical power from the
Roosevelt Dam. And now there are
no better citizens in the United States
than the Pima Indians.
/ receive many letters from girls.
who seem to have one paramount
problem, how to earn living. The
multitude of them want city life. al
though few have a special training fit
for it. When a girl asks for counsel
there is only one brand of advice to
offer. First let her make a begin
ming in her own community. No mat
ter how small her town is, there is
sure to be a little store where she
can get some idea of business. A year
or two spent in waiting on custom
ers, in making change and caring
for bills rubs off considerable of the
rawness which is a handicap in the
city. She can qualify as a stenog-
rapher in the Office of some country
lawyer or village factory. She can
learn telegraphy or telephone work,
millinery, bookkeeping, library work
or journalism. The superintendent of
schools in large city tells me that
some of his best teachers were girls
who had taught for several terms in
country schools. They were health
ier, less frazzled of nerve, and had
more endurance than the city-bred
girls. A city hospital recruits, when
possible, from nurses who have been
trained in village hospital A New
York physician declares he prefers a
country-bred nurse to the woman who
has never been out of city. AS a
rule she has a steadier head, steadier
hand and steadier nerves. Isabel
Gordon Curtis in Success Magazine.
1.-THE Red Book Magazine" for Sep
TENDER realizes the assurance Of Au-
gust that it would be even superior
to that noteworthy number. The lead
ing story, Getting Married." is by
Edward Salisbury Field. and is as
lively and sparkling a story of love
almost thwarted as we recall ever
having read. 1.-THE Letters of Lett
tia," by Lily A. Long, is another
story of ingenuity and surprise, while
Rupert Hughes "Spuds" is nothing
less than short story classic of a
convict. Lieut.. Hugh Johnson, of
the Regular Army, tells the story of
a military promotion in the Philip
PlhSS MdAy AiHldy 4dylOI COHIEiUulSS
another of her original and de-
lightful "Dago KID stories Richard
Washburn Child has a singularly
appealing story, THAT Pace" Ed
win L. Sabin in "Manhandling Muir
ray" tells a college hazing story, and
Seumas MacManus contributes an
other of his Donegal Memory" tales,
this one being "When a Mans Mar
ried. ;" A police story, 1.-THE Flight
of the Stool Pigeon" by John A.
Moroso 1.-THE Banters," humorous
skit by Walter Pritchard Eaton;
"Mr. Migswitch, by Ellis. Parker
Butler; "a Man Who Could Do
Things" by G. r. Lancaster; "The
Angels Wing" by James Barnes,
and 1.-The Resurrection of Sarah
Flack," by Annie E. P. Soaring, COM
bine to make of the September RED
Book" just the publication for the
vacation days.