The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-16

w you ever happen to motifs that
my feeturs are not unlike the
feeturs of an Indian?
No. I never did. sed Ma. ! have
notised that yure ackshuns are like
those of a Indian a CRATE many times,
but doant think yure face looks like
q Indians face.
Haven't you ever notised that my
cheek bones is a trifie high & my
nose is stern and hooked my eyes
PIERCING, sed Pa
Not at all. sed Ma Goodness knows
yure eyes doant look very PIERCING
this morning. Go & look at them in
the glass. Why, sed Ma, why are you
asking me all these foolish questions?
What noshun is in yure he'd now?
Well. sed Pa, 1 will tell you If you
& Bobbie promise not to take what
tell you too litely. l was toad this
afternoon by a vary wunderful woman
that l lived on this erth 500 years
ago. & that at that time I was
famous Indian chief in the wilds of
what is now Wisconsin. She toald me
that I ruled my peepul sternly. yet
gently. & that I had positiy geenyus
for warfare. All this & Inoar was
toad me by this wunderful woman.
& who is this wunderful woman7
sed Ma. I cud see that she wanted
for to know moar.
She is a mistick that just calm here
from India, sed Pa. A newspaper
friend of mine was going to interview
her & he took me along, & she KEEP
looking at me all the time she was
talking to the newspaper man. After
she had looked at me long time, Pa
you and littel Bobbie.
How romantick. sed Ma. Jest think.
Bobbie, yure father used to be a IA
nous Indian cheef oaver four hundred
yeers before thare was any Tammany.
Long beefoare us girls had sheeth
gowns, sed Ma. yure beloved father
was seated at camp fire with a lot
of other old Indian rummies, smoak-
ing pipe making fancy speeches.
I suppoas about that saim time thare
was a squaw that loved him all she
cud when he dident keep her busy
chopping cordwood
Not so, sed Pa. The mistick woman
have toald you about toald me that
wen l was this famous cheef, five
hundred yeers ago, 1 was madly in
love with a buiful Indian princess of
another tribe, & that the father of the
princess wuddent give his daughter
to me. hansum & powerful tho 1 was.
sed Pa. The woman sed that finally
agreed to fife another sutton for her
hand, & that I was killed by the
sutton in this duel. I guess my foot
must have slipped or something. sed
Pa. Anyhow, was killed, & the yung
princess felt SO bad, wen she knew
that / was ded that she went &
croaked herself & neither of US was
seen no moar as Indians
How deeliteful, sed Ma Did this
mistick woman say anything about
yure present married state? She mite
have menshuned that thare was a
princess waiting for you at hoam,
watching everything get coald.
She did menshun you. sed Pa. She
sed that now. my second time on erth
I am married to that saim Indian
princess, so you must have lived five
hundred yeers ago. too, sed Pa
You doan't tell me, sed Ma. I doant
seem to feel a bit calder now that
you menshun it. 1 doan't take much
stock in this having lived before, sed
Ma Tt isent what we mite have been
FIVE hundred yeers ago, it's what we
are going to maik out of our lifes
now. But If I RELY did live five hum
derd yeers ago, & loved you. sed Ma,
we ought to think pritty well of eech
other by now. Deerest luv, Ma sed,
can have that new hat I was telling
you about last mite?