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use. so they had to put the bowl Of
corn on the stones and hold 1t over the
IRE in that way. Soon 1t began to pop
and when all the grains Of corn were
white and fluffy they sprinkled 1t with
salt and ate 1t just as any little Wash
tngton boy would.
They had ever so many things to eat
that Bobbie had never tasted before. The
boys went down to the peach orchard
and with some Of the other little Indian
children they ate peaches and rolled over
the sand. At dinner they had some of
the queerest sort of bread. that Washing
ton boys would most likely call a cracker.
It was made Of the queer white stuff that
on q stone. After the little Indian boy 8
father brought the corn in from the field
his mother and sister pounded 1t between
two stones until 1t was a fine flour. This
they mixed with water and some salt and
when 1t was sticky like paste they poured
some over q fiat stone that had been
heated In the fire. In few minutes 1t
grew hard and crisp like cracker.
Among all the things they played that
day Bobbie thought the dog dance the
funniest. The dancing boy would get
down on his hands and knees and jump
around like a dog trying to pick silver
beads and buttons of the ground with his
mouth.
Bobbie and the Wise Dream Man
climbed with Taos up mountain nearby
to the place where Taos made his pray
ers. Now, perhaps you think 1t very
funny for boys to make prayers instead
OF saying them, but that is just what
all little Zuni Indians do. They pile big
stones together. and this they call a
shrine. Taos brought some little sticks
with feathers In them, colored beads and
two little stones and all these things he
left on the shrine az prayers.
It was almost evening In Bobbde' S
dream day and there were still SO many
wonderful things that he wanted to see.
The house that the little Zuni Indian boys
and girls lived in were quite different
from the houses in Washington. They
were built Of stone and mud and Bobbie
thought that they must have grown right
up out Of the sand. for they were just
the same color. There were no trees and
broad streets In between them. but they
were all built together and one on top Of
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place, l. l. While on shore near that
village she saw another girl pushed
and witnessed the struggle which en-
sued when the latter's father jumped
overheard to rescue her. While the vic
tim clunp to her fathers arms. thus
rendering him helpless as the yacht e!
drifted farther and farther away, little
Marie, instead Of running for help.
launched a nearby skiff and rowed it a
quarter mile saving both father and
daughter just as they were going under
the last time
A similar act of heroism. rewarded
by a government medal. was that of
Maude King the thirteenyear-ol
granddaughter OF the master OF light
house tender. in Charleston harbor,
s. c. While In the lighthouse station
during a heavy squall, this child heard
a cry from the water and discovered
out at sea an upturned yawl, beside
Rushing to the davits. Maude lowered
a boat and while her mother cried for
her to desist put of for the rescue. A
brave young aunt jumped in with her
at the last moment. and the two girls.
after a desperate pull. picked up the
scattered men. barely in time.
Still another little Rirl heroine given
government medal was Mary Mccain.
an Irish immigrant Of fifteen. who, while
convalescing from measles and scarlet
fever at the hospital on North Brothers
Island, N. Y. heard the shrieks OF the
victims Of the burning excursion steamer
General Slocum. and without thought OF
her illness or fear OF the strong tide
ship and rescued three children. After
being helped back to the hospital by q
nurse she contracted diphtheria. and on
recovering from this illness completed a
course in professional nursing.
=
For rescuing men the government has
conferred the marine life-saving medal
on fve other women and girls besides
Maude King. These are Edith Morgan Of
Hamlin, Mich, who saved two fishermen
whose boat had capsized in Lake Michi-
gan, and who during a binding snow
storm later. at the same point. helped
convoy a rope from shore to the crew
Of the wrecked steamer City OF Toledo
thereby helping to rescue all on board:
Mabel Mason, who risked her life to res
cue a man thrown from his boat into
the Detroit river by the swash OF a pass
ing steamer: Mrs. Martha White. who
"at the imminent peril Of her life" plung-
ocean and rescued thras sailors from
bark wrecked of the coast Of Washing
ton: Stella e. Bartholomew OF Occidental.
CAL, who upon seeing man sink for the
third time while swimming across the
Russian river plunged in and saved him,
and Mrs. Ida Lewis-Wilson OF Newport
r. l., who at various times rescued thir-
teen men.
The last named better known to our
generation as Ida Lewis, was the daugh-
ter Of the keeper Of Lime Rock light
house. Newport harbor. and in early
youth became q skilled swimmer and
oarsman. When eighteen she rescued
from the sea four men whose boat had
capstzed, and at subsequent dates she has
saved nine other men. including two SOL
diers. who broke through the harbor ice.
Her father having become a paralytic,
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low poorer rather than better judgment!
Our forty-two heroines upon this roll
of honor range, In age, from nine to six
ty-eight. and. In color, from black to
white. They have received their medals
and grants Of money for risking their
lives to save others from drowning. fire.
railroad accidents, runaway horses.
snakebite, freezing, electric shock, muir
der and suicide. All Of these acts OF hero
ism have been performed since April To-
1904, and more than half Of them have
been in the aid Of drowning persons The
next greatest numbers have been per-
formed In the interest OF victims OF nre
and railroad accidents.
Emergency judgment was displayed In
the rescues Of both the eldest and young
est heroines on the list. The former. who
Is Sarah Hutchins Killikelly, the author.
was in her sixty-ninth year when, latel1-
she saved her maid from fire. in her Pitt
burgh home. With her clothing mass
Of flames, the maid ran through several
rooms calling for help. until Miss Kill
kelly seized her. threw her to the moor
and smothered the fire with rug. thus
saving her life, although sustaining pain
full injuries herself.
The youngest heroine on the list IS
Maree Young Trevor. who, at the age
of nine, jumped from a bridge recently
at Marion, H., and saved a boy from
drowning. This little girl rsked her life
although she could not swim. but after
reaching the uncertain current. which
was deep and swift, she exercised cool
ness instead Of giving way to fright
After grasping the boy. who was a lad
near her own age, she caught hold OF the
bridge structure, and. with her charge,
worked her way toward the bank
And here follow some brief accounts OF
rescues by typical heroines. whose
names have lately been added to this
roll of honor:
At North Beach, n. Y, Mrs. Rosa p.
Schaller swan out 100 feet into Long
Island sound to rescue drowning
woman. During a struggle, in which
the latter endeavored to death-lock her
rescuer, Mrs Schaller knocked her un-
conscious and then supported her in the
water until assistance arrived.
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MARIE REvoR
Our YOUNGEST MRo MnAL1sT
CHESTS Against Their

D CHESTS Against Their
l employment in Switch
1 overs and Wireless Ship
Stations Arouse Controversy
Several Agencies Now In
vestigating Heroism of Amer
leans Throw Light on the
Controversy = testimony
Analysed Indicates That Our
Women Are Holding Their
Own in Cool-headed Courage
Our Heroines of the Past
Few Years and Their Baf-
fling Feats Described-Equal
Men in Emergency.
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posed to do" replied the Dream Man.
"You see. Bobbie, those men are
dressed up like spirits called kok-kos
that the Indians believe i've up IN .nd
to hit them with his sword before he
can hear the secrets Of the Kok-ko.
"oh. look. Mr.. Dream Man. they arc
going out!'
the village now and beat any one with
their switches who gets I'm their way;
Some Of the Indians want to be whipped
by them. for they believe that 1t VIII
Dream Man. but here comes the old
man, who will tell the children more
about the Kok-ko.'
All the children gathered around the the
old man. and he told them an .h .ne
told them to others their heads would
be cut of with q stone knife Then ne
told how some Zuni Indian boys once
revealed the secrets, and were 80 fright
ened that they ran to hide IN tine tine noun
tains heard that the boys had told the
secrets they were so angry that one OF
them came down to the ground 10 nno the
boys. But the boys mothers said they
didn't know where they were The spirit
stamped his foot on the ground and
the mountain opened up and showed
where the boys were hiding. The kok-
ko spirit took them up in the mountain
to cut their heads of.
"Oh. Mr. Dream Man, I want to go
home!" Bobbie cried, for he liked Wash
ington a great deal better than this
place where they cut little boys heads
of.
We'll, we'll, do believe Boobies
afraid" said the Dream Man. laughing
"But you know, Bobbie, that only Zuni
Indians believe in the Kok-ko. and they
really don't cut the little Indian boys
heads of, but only tell them that to
brighten them"
AS the Dream Man spoke he took
Bobbie's hand. and there they were
standing in the museum just AS they
had before they went for a dream day
with the Zuni Indians. There stood all
the glass cases Of wonderful things. and
right in front were Taos and his father
and mother and sisters all inside glass
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case so that any little Washington boy
or girl may see them in the National
Museum that the Wise Dream Man calls
his Dreamland of All Countries
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Of others. And this is not he opening
wedge of a historical dissertation on the
heroic accomplishments of Joan of Arc,
Moll Pitcher, Grace Darling ct al. Not
the women Of the past. but our wives.
mothers, daughters and sisters OF the
living present. are being examined for
symptoms Of cool-headed courage by the
agencies referred to, whose data l have
been permitted to peruse with considera-
BILE pains.
Within the past seven years every
known act Of heroism performed within
our boundaries by non-professional life
savers has been sifted to the bottom
by the Carnegie hero commission, whose
energies In this line are supported by
the income of $5,OO0,O0O. Within the
brief period mentioned this body mas
awarded hero medals" and In deserving
cases. grants Of money or annu1ties to
$50 people considerable proportion
156) Of these heroes were engaged In
occupations which demanded their pres
ence at the scenes of the rescueS, and
possessed special training that gave
them advantages for accomplishing these
feats of heroism. When these individuals
are eliminated. we have left 427 persons
who merely as casual witnesses to the
peril Of the rescued, risked their lives
to save them.
i
Among these ~, or about IL per cent.
are WOIuSu d1Au RAOFo~ ~>~--
which will be acknowledged vastly In
favor OF the gentler sex. when 1t is
considered that probably less per-
centage OF the persons who witness
the character OF accidents figuring In
these cases are Of the gentler sex. Most
Of these catastrophes have occurred on
the water, on railroad tracks or in in
dustrial plants utilizing poisonous
fumes or dangerous electric currents
places where women are in a very small
minority Upon the water. perhaps.
women would be found in greater pro-
portion than in the other places named.
but II census Of all the swimmers
in the country were taken 1t Is highly
probable that the proportion OF women
would be considerably less than this
ratio of IL per cent. SO. when all Is
said our women, considering their OPP
portunities for heroism. are fully hold
ing their own.
AS a matter Of fact, 80 per cent Of
these heroines risked their lives to
struggle with full-grown men. in some
cases older than themselves, or able
bodied boys of about their own age.
Getting nearer to the main point at Is
sue-emergency judgment-let us attack
the hero commissions data from another
angle. It's reports show that % per cent
of its heroes, but only "a per cent of it's
heroines, failed in their brave attempts
to rescue. II these figures have any
weight at all. they point to greater emer-
gency Judgment on the part of the wom-
en-, for 1t cannot be denied that poorer
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Inasmuch as there are several agencies
now engaged upon the interesting task OF
skimming from the milk Of human kind
ness the very cream of human heroism, 1T
has occurred to your correspondent to
attempt an analysis of this material,
with the hope Of throwing some further
light upon the vexed controversy in aues-
ton
What lovely woman would do in dan
gerous emergencies can. of course. be
judged only by what she has done when
faced by sudden peril involving the safety
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investigating the recent Burlington rail-
road wreck. recommended that no more
women be employed in switch towers, one
having operated the tower governing the
train which killed thirteen people. A
sequel to the controversy has been pro-
test against the federal governments re-
cent innovation in the matter Of licensing
a woman to operate the wireless tele-
graph aboard an ocean steamship.
The old fued Of sex against sex is thus
being fought from a new angle. and feud-
lists upon both sides are INDUCING in
much speculative psychology.
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visit all the things in the museum" said
the Dream Man, but now We will drop
in and spend a dream day with some peo-
pie who live out in Arizona and New
Mexico. Their houses are built OF stone
and mud some OF them high UP on the
cliffs. and others down on the plains and
prairies. Near these houses are fields OF
corn. trees loaded with peaches. and many
OF the things that mother buys for you at
market. These people have long black
hair, and they wear clothes that they
make themselves out OF wooden thread.
Can you guess what they are. Bobbie?"
''Oh. are they Eskimos?' cried Bobbie,
growing very excited.
why. Bobbie," said the Dream Man.
I'VE visited the Eskimos only last time
and surely you haven't forgotten"
II remember now Bobbie said. hang
ing his head. Remember the Eskimos
live way up north and build their houses
OF snow and Ice"
II hope other Washington boys and
girls can remember the things they see
a little better than you do said the
Wise Dream Man frowning. Now when
the Dream Man frowned he looks very
fierce. although he is such a tiny little
fellow. When he is angry the little tuft
OF gray hair stands up sitter than ever
on his round bald head and his little
eyes grow SO bright and shiny that they
seem to go right through you. Even his
long cloak that he always wears seems
to get stiff and hard. Bobbie was really
afraid and he felt SO ashamed that he
had been stupid and forgetful.
We'll. well. try to guess again." said
the Dream Man as he stopped frownng.
Bobbie thought very hard.
why, they must be Indians he cried.
"And SO they are," said the Dream
Man, they are called Zuni Indians
What q funny name, and can we see
them at the museum and spend q dream
day with them?" asked Bobbie.
YES. here we are" replied the Wise
Dream Man as they dropped down
through a window into the National Mu-
scum that the Dream Man called his
Dreamland Of All Countries.
There they stood among all the Won
ders Of the place All sorts of queer
people were standing around In glass
cases and back In the distance Bobbie
could see . tiger ana . lion and many
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another with only narrow little alleys in
between.
But Bobbie didn't think much about the
queer houses and many Of the other
with the Dream Man and Taos to a meet
ing Of the Kok-ko. This Kok-ko was q
sort OF club that each boy Joined when
he was old enough, and Taos and sew
eral other of the little Indian boys were
to be taken in to the club that evening.
+ X
The Wise Dream Man made Bobbie and
himself invisible SO that they could go
with Taos to the meeting, for If the In
dams had seen them they wouldn't have
let them come. Only the little boys and
their godfathers were allowed in the big
room down underneath the ground where
they had tho meeting of the Kok-lko
When Bobbie saw the first thing that q
little Indian boy had to do to join the
Kok-ko he felt ever SO glad that he lived
in Washington and didn't have to belong
to any such club. for each OF the boys
was given whipping that was certainly
The godfathers sat in the middle OF
the floor and tied the little boys across
their knees with a blanket. Then four
men that were the queerest looking
things Bobbie had ever seen whipped
the boys with long pieces OF leather.
These four men that Taos called the
Sai-a-hli-a had their heads covered
entirely with dig false faces that had
horns, and in their hands they carried
long swords. Bobbie was really fright
ened when he first saw them. But
after they had beaten the boys they
took of their masks and put them on
the boys heads. giving each Of them
a sword. Bobbie would have liked ever
so much to have had a sword and a
false face.
Bobbie almost screamed as several
more men with false faces and horns
danced by him. and what was his sur
prise to see the little boys raise their
swords and hit these men on each
ankle and each arm.
"Oh. dear. Mr.. Dream Man, they'll
get whipped again II they do that.
won't they?" cried Bobbie taking hold
Of the Dream Mans hand.
mo. that's Just what they are sup
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o w o m e n ] q c K
emergency judg-
ment? In moments
of sudden peril are
they as cool-head-
ed in their courage
as men?
A hot contro-
versy over this
question has been
precip1tated by the
Chicago coroner's
Jury which. after
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other name b." said Bobbie. for when
asked father to take me there I couldn't
remember Il. and he said there was no
Dreamland Of All Countries in the city
directory"
Little boys are forgetful." said the
Wise Dream Man. shaking his head Its
a large white building half way between
the Capitol and the White House. and
when the boys and girls OF Washington
visit 1t In the daytime they call It the
National Museum
"Oh, remember now" cried Bobbie
wrinkling his forehead up into q knot.
for he was trying 30 hard never to forget
u again
TT would take weeks ana weeks -
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Crouching down between two train'
only a yard apart Mrs. Della R. Pow
ers similarly rescued a child OF three
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Of the animals that he had visited at tho
Zoo. only these animals at the museum
stood so still that Bobbie wondered II
they had fallen asleep standing up. IN
still and 1t was all % quiet that Boboie
was almost afraid.
"Oh, why don't they move. Mr.. Dream
Man, Bobbie said and his own voice
sounded so loud that 1t scared him.
We'll. you see, Bobbie. these are only
people and things that men have made.
but they are exactly like real people and
real animals in all parts Of the world"
replied the Dream Man. II call them my
Dream people," he continued. ''for. like the
houses and ships and all the things that
men build. they are dreams that have
been made with wood. paint and stone
into things we can see. I am the Wise
Dream Man. Bobbie. and all these dream
people are my friends, SO 1t is that can
take you or any little Washington boy n
girl to visit them for a day"
Slowly the things in the museum faded
away before Boobies eyes, and he stood
with the Dream Man in a queer stone
house There on the floor sat the jolliest
little Indian boy. smiling and looking so
happy. But when one sees him he will
would look happy il he could be there.
for the little Indian boys father had just
emptied before him a sack Of corn and
pumpkins; and. best of all. big water
melon. In one corner sat the Indian
boys grandfather making holes in some
colored stones with sharp pointed stick
that he twirled round and round Each Of
these stones. when q hole was made in
it. was put on a piece Of string, just as
mothers pearl beads are strung.
The Indian boys mother stood In the
doorway with little Indian baby In her
arms. His aunt was working with some
bright colored threads, and the Wise
Dream Man told Bobbde that she was
weaving and making the cloth for dresses.
The sister was Just carrying In . large
jug Of water on her head. and Bobhde
soon learned that there were NO spigots
with water running out Of them In the
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years. at Rochdale, Mass. One train was
already on one track. when Mrs. Powers
saw the child on the adjoining track.
upon which . train was rapidly approach
ing Just as the onrushing engine was
about to crush the little one this brave
woman bent forward and rolled him be-
yond the rail. neither Of them being hurt
by the train.
Miss Mary r. Brown Of Washington. D.
c.. saved the lives Of the family Of de-
lirious typhoid patient armed with re-
volver. Although she had been mortally
shot through the breast. this heroine
grasped the temporarily insane man from
behind as he started for his family, in
another room, and, after q desperate
struggle. secured the weapon. Miss Brown
died seventeen days after being shot, and
in addition to comforting a posthumous
medal upon her the commission has
granted her mother an annuity OF $50 a
month for life.
Despite the torture Of a rib broken dur
ing her struggles to rescue them. Mrs.
Lulu J. Small. wife of florist of New
York and Washington. saved two women
in the ocean at Sea Gate, N. Y. after a
remarkable display Of GOODNESS and de-
termination. After having been death
woman, Mrs. Small overcame her and
while holding on to her with one hand
swan with her sixty feet to the life rope
while at the same time pushing to safety
the OIner woman, VINO managed TO nOat.
Later Mrs. Small lay in a hospital several
months recovering from her injuries.
Rescues of grown men by young girls
illumine the commissions catalogue OF
heroism and throw some light upon this
vexed question Of sex superiority. Thus
Ernestine Atwood. q schoolgirl Of seven
teen. dives from boat in Boston harbor.
200 feet from shore. and swims under a
float to drag out drowning coachman
thirty-seven years old. while Anna Brom-
ley. another schoolgirl. only sweet six
teen," although tired out from swimming
of High Point. N. j., plunges into Barne-
gat bay and takes hold of helpless man
Of twenty-five. whose water wings" have
become Debated 800 feet from shore. The
frantic man throws both arms about his
rescuer's neck. and after being bafned in
this attempt to death-lock he tries to
climb upon her shoulders. He carries her
to the bottom. where occurs a subterra-
mean struggle, In which she, maintaining
cool head all the while, overcomes him,
and after all Of this desperate work she
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the magic cloak. Togeth-
or they rose IN the air and few out
through the window. Now Bobbie IL only
a regular little Washington boy but the
Wise Dream Man is quite different from
any one you know. and he can do ever so
many more wonderful things than the
magician on the stage who hides cards in
his sleeve and pulls rabbits out OF . silk
hat So It was that he was able to fly
through the air and take Bobbie OF in the
magic cloak
We are going to the Dreamland Of All
Countries again. Bobbie," said the Dream
Man. - they few over the houses and
PARIS Of Washington.
''Oh. ! am % glad" Bobbie cried. CAP
ping his hands. for he loved to visit this
place that the Dream Man called his
Dreamland Of An Countries Bobbie had
been there several times. and perhaps
ever so many Washington girls and boys
have walked an through II. but they most
probably didn't know that the Wise
Dream Man lived there. Bobbie, however.
could never remember the next morning
by just what name It u known TO the
people In Washington who visit 1t In the
daytime.