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I salary and offers him his best wishes fc
a brilliant future.
/ There are at many Of the universitie,
particularly at Columbia, a number G
blind students. These men have grea
difficulty finding work in the summer, an
they are compelled to resort to the mos
distressing means distressing to them
selves and to their friends) Of earnin
money for the next years tuition.
A Columbia student was walking II
125th street one day wien he heard tn,
tapping Of cane on the pavement an,
a voice calling Pencils, penciis!" H,
turned and saw at his elbow his class
mate, blind student, but one of the mos
brilliant men in the University.
Farming never has been a very popular
summer job with the college man, and
he accepts it only when he fails to &c,
anything else. But in tie future it prom.
ises to become more popular. This is
que to an innovation which Princeton
University has recently made.
This institution has often been called
the erich mans college," and this reputa.
ton has kept away many worthy but poor
students. To prove that it is as demo-
cratic as any college Princeton has laid
aside ten acres of fin. land to be cult
waited by students who wish to be self
supporting. Students will be paid So a
day and will be able to earn enough money
to pay good part of their expenses at
college, This makes 1t possible for the
poorest student to go to Princeton.
Regarded from financial point of view,
the figures of earnings of college men
during the summer are in some cases
surprising. There is record of one
man working through the vacation Of
1910 and earning $9S662. As a rule,
however, the student who earns $500
above his living expenses is doing well.
Many fall below that figure and a few
exceed it.
A second year medical student earned
by acting as physical director $3.50; as
life guard, $1S4O; total, $97s.4O.
A student of philosophy earned as
secretary of national reform organize
ton $500. us librarian, SEQ; total, $500.
A third year law student earned by
managing seashore bathing establish
ment 5000.
A first year law student earned BY SELL
ing straw hats 1896.
A freshman earned as tutor $50; as
hotel clerk, $500; total, $3.50.
A senior earned by laying brick, $500.
A political science student earned by
tutoring $500; encyclopedia editorial
work, $1oo; proctoring, $3.50; total,
$35l.50.
A junior earned BY newspaper work
$2do; tutoring, $40; total, $3.50.
A senior earned By gymnasium werk
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during the summer to make enough to pay
his tuition for the following year and have
a considerable amount left for living e1-
penses. Just why it is called scholar
ship is more or less of a family secret,
If you don't know the reason, or can't
guess, it would not be fair to enlighten
you.
On board the steamship Commonwealth,
which piles between New York and Bos-
ton and which rammed the New Hamp-
shire recently, are Tufts senior and a
Bellevue Junior who act as baggagemen.
College men make good chauffeurs, too,
but nof>when the owner of the car has a
pretty daughter, who is incidentally an
heiress and likes to go shopping alone in
the car. Many a student has lost a
good job because of his love of art in one
of its many manifestations. Frequently,
however, it 10 the fault Of the hero
worshipping maiden. who is so romantical-
ly excited at the thought of having q
Princeton man drive her around. She talks
so warmly and enthusiastically about him
that papa finally decides that his chauffeur
needs the vacation which his college gives
him for better purpose than he Is
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How Self-SupportinS COLLEGE Men Earn Summer Money

Harvard, or Columbia, or whatever their
college may be. and they generally &c,
about $40 week and complete main
tenance.
Then there are the life savers at the
beaches. At Brighton there are a score
of Yale and Cornell men, athletes, most
of them, with enviable records. They are
the cynosure of all maidenly eyes, and
many a man and woman may thank
these men that they are still alive.
Have you ever heard of the enter
borough Schoiarships?" OF course you
haven't, for the good reason that the In
terborough has not yet decided to go IN
for philanthropy. But that's what college
men call summer job on the cars of that
company. A conductor frequently Is able
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UESS your weight, sir; guess
Oyour weight! Weigh you free il
I fail to guess within three
pounds|
The pedestrian on Brighton Beach
boardwalk came to a halt in front of the
tripod scale and approached the young
man quickly.
iGad, man, what are you doing here
thought you were at college," he ex.
claimed.
Not at the present moment" replied
the youth, recognizing friend. 81 was
there last year, and if business is good
this summer, III be there in the fall. You
know I'm working my way through col
lege."
''Oh, I know that. But why in
heavens name did you choose this sort
of work."
Choose? Did you ever hear of a col
lege man choosing any kind of work
Beggars aren't choosers, old man. We
take what we can in the summer. Be
sides, you seem to fail to see that this is
really the most aristocratic kind of a job.
When I come back in the fall and the
boys greet me with, Have a good sum-
mer, Bill? Where you been? I can
throw my head back proudly and say in
an offhand way, oh. I spent the summer
at the seashore"
get away with about two hundred
dollars at the end of the SIMMER, along
with deep tan and excellent health"
This young man is only one of the
many thousand college men all over the
country who depend upon their earnings
during the summer vacation to continue
their courses in the fall They make a
formidable army of workers, these stall
wart athletes and all round good fellows
from the universities, and they are en-
gagged in all the vacations and industries
imaginable. They are true democrats
and hesitate at nothing that is honorable.
They are tutors, statesmen, canvassers,
walters, laborers, baggagemen, motor
men, conductors and anything else one
! can think of. And with very few excep-
tons they make good at anything they
undertake.
College men are very much in evidence
at the summer resorts. There they act
as walters, clerks, porters and even bell
hops, and not infrequently a few men
organize and form an orchestra, and it is
easy to find engagements at the hotels
This last is about the softest job known
to the college men, The work is easy
and an orchestra Of college men always
makes hit.
As often happens at resorts, the girls
are greatly in excess of men in numbers,
and then the musicians come in for the
time of their, lives. They are indispensa-
Bile to the guests, who make few arrange
ments without including the boys from
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where, Some Children think

eetting on and on . car and the precau-
lions to BE- t:.ken IN crossing the street
where trolley cans and automobiles were
running both ways.
But far more exciting were the electric
trains, running on real tracks. and %
arranged with safety devices that they
could not possibly collide. The children
could hardly be torn from this thrilling
exhibit. They found some compensation,
however. in watching machine working
with protective device 80 that the work
er's fingers could no longer he cut OF as
is the case SO often with unguarded ma
chimes.
The girls found something more to their
liking in a chair that could be attached
to the window sill so that one could be
safe in washing windows from the out
side, and in an attachment for fastening
the clothes line to the window and taking
in the clothes without danger of falling.
When the children had made the round
Of the museum and had seen everything
work that could be~put in motion, Mrs.
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\ T Is proverbial that many Europeans
believe American bison stampede
through the streets Of Buffalo, n. Y.
and that Indians, the wild, war whoop-
ing brand, camp in the town squares OF
almost any city west of the Appalachian
range. Americans laugh at the idea, but
perhaps they are unaware that there are
dozens of Indians belonging to the old
tribes stalking in Broadway, in Fifth ave-
nue. and in many prominent or sequestered
streets of New York city.
A Sioux until recently was editor OF
Field and Stream, a Blackfoot presides
over the department Of anthropolosy OF the
American Museum of Natural History,
there Is an artist with a studio in Mac
dougal alley who has the right to claim as
his people the Sioux, Blackfoots and
Crows, and the chairman Of the Board OF
Directors of the Great Northern Railroad,
who often does business in New York, is
Blackfoot
These men and many others throughout
the United States are as proud OF the fact
that they have been adopted into Indian
tribes as are Europeans of distinctions
that have been conferred upon them in the
form of the decoration Of the Legion OF
Honor, the Iron Cross Of Russia or the
Silver Crescent of the Turks. And well
they may be, for to be deemed worthy OF
adoption into an Indian tribe they must
live up to the most manly, hardest ideals
of the aborigines, ideals which have been
untrammelled by a life of quasi-civiiiza-
ton. They must exhibit answering cour-
are in the faee-of danger, physical prowess
and power and skill in the arts which the
Indians love best, such as hunting, fishing,
riding and woodcraft.
Louis W. Hill, son of ]. ]. Hill and
chairman of the Board Of Directors OF the
Chicago Great Northern Railroad, Is the
last man who was adopted into the Black
foot tribe. The ceremony took place on
August IS. which was the Night OF the
Black Tail, an Indian feast day, when
the Young men of the tribe dance with
black crows tails dangling from their
waists.
Mr.. Hills Indian name Is Grayhofse,
and he was initiated into the tribe in the
estate Of warrior. This is considerable
honor, for many men are obliged to go
through the steps of boy, assistant to the
women cooks and young man before they
are permitted to enjoy the privileges OF a
warrior, all Of this despite their real age.
In fact. in many cases a man ADOPTED
into an Indian tribe assumes a fictitious
age. The ceremony of adoption is frausht
with magic effort Not only does the new
Indian receive a name and age, but he is
u,pposed to actually undergo a great per
sonal change and become cousin, nephew,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-08
X Lamps and Clocks Made by Boys

size of the small clock which is bought
to put into the case.
There need not be any enumeration al
all on the clock case, but it looks very
well to have the top of the clock case
either pointed, rounded or extended above
the case and then cut out in two peaks,
one on each end. There need also be no
ornamentation otherwise on the clock,
but. if desired, the lower part is cut out
so as to make little feet for the clock to
stand on.
Both lamps and clocks are stained n
good dark color. which harmonizes well
either with dark oak or mission furniture
Boys who are very ambitious to make
gifts which would please their friends
have done so by making their clocks with
monogram burned in the front below the
clock face. The monogram may also be
carved in before the four pieeSs which
form the clock face are put together, but
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-08

this requires more skill than the burning
For special rooms instead of staining
the lamps and clocks the neutral dark
brown they have been enamelled in dark
green or white. Then a blue silk is used
for the lining of the lamp IL it is for Z
blue room and blue monogram put on
the clock. There are many shops which
make practice of putting monograms
on celluloid toilet articles which win put
the blue monogram on.
The boys also make book racks, wooden
jardinieres and tabourettes, in addition to
all sorts of important furniture, chairs,
tables and benches. Finishing the furni-
ture in enamelled paint is extremely diff
icult, and only those boys should attempt
it who have skill and infinite patience,
but the stain is not SO difficult to put on
and the effect is really better, except for
very dainty apartments.
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brother or son of some member OF tn
tribe.
DR.. wissler, head Of the anthropolog,
department of the American Museum O
Natural History, was adopted by two oil
women of the Blackfoot tribe as thei
nephew. When such an adoption Is sane
toned by the tribe in council the recipien
of the honor becomes a member OF tn
tribe and of the clan or totem OF whici
his immediate adopted relatives are mem
bers. This means, among other things
that he cannot marry into the clan whicl
has honored him.
BY adoption Edwin W. Demming, al
artist, of Macdougal alley, is Blackfoot
a Crow and Sioux. His Blackfoot nam
is Running Wolf, which was given to hin
by chief in memory of companion o
his youth who was killed in war. Hi
Sioux name is Wa-sche-cha Han-ska
which means Tall White Man.
Deaf Bull, a chief of the Crow tribe
adopted Mr.. Demming as his son.
mo father could have treated me bet
ter" said Mr.. Demming to your re
porter. Il lived in one of his tepees ant
everything that he owned was At my dis
posal. As his son was initiated into al
of the secrets of the different ceremonies
I went through all the medicine lodges anf
attended councils, and was told all tn,
stories about the Great Mystery and tn
spiritual beliefs of the tribe.
''Old Deaf Bull grew very fond of me
and when I went away he was broker
hearted. As the greatest token of his es
TEEN and sorrow at parting that he coult
possibly render me he gave me his com
plete war dress. and it was beauty.
The Indians must have implicit faiti
in white man before they adopt him int,
a tribe. and have never known of cas-,
where the red men dij not keep all thei
obligations to the adopted man"
The ceremonies attending the adoptiol
of white man into an Indian tribe an
not so elaborate as they were in pionee
days, when it was more frequent that al
Indian in one tribe was adopted into an
other, or from one clan to another.
The old men Of the tribe make speeche
and the person who adopts the white mai
embraces .im before the assembled mem
bers. Sometimes there is a dance or /.
feast, and the family into which the whit,
man is welcomed gives numerous presents
The presents are given away while tn,
new name is being conferred. The In
dams believe that an actual blood rela
ton exists between the white man ant
themselves after the ceremony has beer
performed. Very often a family wishes
to adopt white man to take the place Of
some member who has died. He received
the name and estate Of that member, the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-08
Sheriff Needs No Deputies Where
Young Woman breaches.

TT THOUGH only twenty years old
~ Miss Ina L. Morgan is pastor of two
- Maine churches. and her congrega-
tons are growing SO rapidly that both
may have to be enlarged within the next
year.
Men and women drive twenty and
thirty miles on Sundays to hear her
preach, and since she has taken charge
of the little churches at Arrowsic and
Georgetown the communities have become
so law abiding that tt Sheriff has been
able to dispense with his deputies.
Miss Morgan began church work four
years ago, when she was given license
to preach by Bishop John W. Hamilton,
of Worcester. She is the youngest woman
preacher in New England and, inciden-
tally, the prettiest
Georgetown, in which she breaches her
first sermon every Sunday, is twelve miles
south-southeast from Bath, and Arrowsic
is just beyond, in the township of Arrow
sic, on small island at the mouth of the
Kennebec River. Miss Morgan makes
her home in Georgetown. When she is
not preaching she is visiting the i'll and the
destitute, and many dollars of her slender
salaries go to buy food, medicine and
clothing for her needy parishioners.
About her charitable work she is reti-
cent Over her church duties and the
Bible she Is enthusiastic. 1t is said of
her that she is the deepest student of the
Bible in Maine, and her focks assert that
she is also the most gifted orator.
Miss Morgan was born in Wareham,
Mass, and after being graduated from
Boston schools entered the New England
Deaconesses' Home, from which she was
graduated in 1905. Her first pastorate,
after serving az assistant in several Bos-
ton churches, was at Ludlow, Mass. Then
she was called to Harmony, Me-, where
she remained until asked to assume the
Arrowsic and Georgetown pastorates a
few weeks ago.
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SIS; securing boarders. $25; farm work,
$500; total, 1910.
A fine arts student earned by draught.
ing $213; soliciting for garage, $24;
drawing plans, $17.5o; total, $254.5O.
Another fine arts student earned by
running automobile $2SS.
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OopyriZht. 1917, BY the New York heraio o. Al
rights reservedl
EE, it would be great to bt
~ shipwrecked! l bet I could gel
saved" boosted boy who
with a lot of other children
was inspecting the safety de-
vices in the American Museum of Safety,
in a busy street in New York city. So
fascinated were they that they longed
for danger so they could be saved. That,
of course, was not the object of their
visit They were brought in from the
highways and byways of New York,
where they are in hourly peril of life and
limb, to be taught caution and to see what
has been done by inventors to make it
safer to live in this world.
Mrs. Tolman took them about the big
rooms on a tour Of inspection and ex-
planned everything. Now you may put
on the life preservers," she said, and with
a speed that could not have been greater
had they been in peril on the sea, boys
and girls put on the life preservers and
tied them up according to directions
There were not enough life preservers to
50 around and a small boy began to
whimper.
"Ah, what's the matter with you? You
amt goin' to drown" cried his brother.
Here, take my life preserver an stop yer
cryin'."
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particularly suitable for use in library
dining room or hall. In the boys OWE
room, also, these lamps look very well, fol
the styles in which they are made are al
somewhat severe and masculine.
One Of the favorite styles for the electric
lamps, and one which is also very easy tc
make, has a perfectly straight standard Of
wood, which may be quite thick through
or very slender, according to the place fol
which II is to be used. If the lamp is fol
the library table the standard is usually
made quite heavy looking, but If the lamp
is to be one of pair to be used on the
mantel shelf or II 1t is for a bedroom the
standard is made much slighter. The
standard is perfect cube and the base Of
the lamp is formed by four straight pieces
of wood, quite thick and heavy, which are
extended in the form of cross.
The shades for these lamps are also
square in effect. The four sides are made
wider at the base and sloping up toward
the top, and the pattern of the sides is cut
out with a jigsaw. This pattern may be
quite elaborate, but as rule square and
very, open design Is adhered to- Some Of
the boys who are much addicted to hand
work, instead Of cutting out design with
a jigsaw, carve the design on the lamp
shade with a jackknife. Only simple, open
patterns are then used. and the effect Is
often, very good, especially when the lamp
In to be used in a room which In furnished
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sides. The lower part of the lamp, which
must be quite solid looking in order to
carry out the effect, is sometimes built
of the solid wood, and from the four
corners uprights extend and support the
roof, which is often peaked.
The clocks are less difficult to make than
the lamps, because there is less orna-
mentation required. One of the quaintest
looking clocks is made in the proportions
of a grandfather's clock, only much small
er. The clock case is, in reality, only a
long cubical box, with the upper part of
the front cut away so as to leave place
where the face Of the clock will show. A
little shelf is built in the box just below
the opening, on which the clock may be
placed. The opening made in the front
of the clock case is round and just the
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South America and is being used instead
of cork"
"0h, here's a lifeboat," discovered a
little girl gleefully, and others examined
the raft and the collapsible boat and were
shown how they were worked, and more
than ever being shipwrecked seemed a
pleasurable adventure.
A miniature trolley car was exhibited
and stress laid upon the right way Of
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u OYS who>ar clever with tools and
| have learned how to use them at home
or in the manual training classes of
their schools are now much interested in
making electric, light lamps and clocks for
their homes and as gifts to their friends.
Not only the lamp stand is made by the
boys, but the shade as wen is cut out of
wood and needs only silk lining to COM
plete very good looking lamp which is
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Tolman pinned a blue and white ribbon
bow on each child, telling him that the
blue was for caution and the white for
safety and that he was to bear these two
things in mind in playing about the city
streets.
1t is the object of the directors of the
Museum Of Safety to get all of the
children in New York who have no play
ground but the street to come to the
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ened themselves up and evidently begaz
TO fhink that maybe they were worth
taking care Of
Almost every day in the year . child
l. killed In the streets Of New York,
taking the average for the year, and
more than that number are MANNED Of
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themselves. The children were much
Impressed By the valuation put upon their
lives By Mrs. Tolman- Each Of you
boys Il worth q million dollars" she
told them, and some little fellows, Whose
clothes we're neither good nor whole.
sisgled At the idea. Then they straight