The daily Alaskan., 1914-07-22
AS PARIS SEES US
We're a Queer Sort of Folk and Eat Pig Three Times a Day.
INDIANS AT OUR BACK DOORS.
They Live on Reservations on ths Out skirts of All Our Cities and Parade the Streets In Blankets and Feathers. News Parisian Papers Print.

discover the most amazing statements about America and Americans-Rb surd, ridiculous things that reveal to the reader the unfortunate paucity of the Parision's knowledge of the world These errors occur in the very best journals of Paris and under editors who stand high in the newspaper world and should know better.
 Here are a few examples culled from the leading papers of Paris of the sort of statements commonly passed out to the innocent French reader:
 An article discussing the fuel used in different countries includes this statement. "In America the houses are heated by natural gas which comes from the Rocky mountains in tubes or pipes and enters the houses all over the country. No other fuel is now in use in America"
 Another enllghtenlng article relates that "all the country west of Chicago is a desert to the California, but it has been marked off with multitudinous ditches, which are kept filled with wa ter from the great Mississippi river and thus the land is made fertile and crops may be grown"
 This about American Indians is amusing: "The American Indians are no longer menace to civilization. They now live quietly on the outskirts Of an American cities in quarters pro- vidud for them and called Indian res ervations' They may be seen at any time wandering the streets in their blankets and feathers, but they are now quite subdued-the white people no longer fear them."
 Here Is, indeed, a piece of news: "Canada is a great country and is proud of having been the birthplace of the greatest American patriot, George Washington"
 4 long article on the Mormon faith says: "Thc MOrmOns are a strange re ligious sect founded by the Rev. Ar thur Smith about thirty years ago. Alr. Smith was a contemporary of Mrs. Mary Eddy, tue Christian Science founder But the two could not agree in their faiths, and NIT. Smith went west in a caravan with thousands of followers. many of whom were killed by the Indians in crossing the deserts of America. Mormons have many wives, like the followers of Islam, and they are to be found in all American cities with their large families"
 The Parisian is enlightened as to the 1 course of most of our fortunes in this wise: "The reason why so many of the 1 great American fortunes are made in pork packing is because the staple of diet in America is pigs. Everybody eats pig three times a day, just as the | Englishmau cats roast beef three times q day. The demand for this article of diet has been the means of many ! Americans founding great fortunes"
 The truly democratic origin of our great men Is the subject for another article. It tells us: 'The presidents of | the great American republic have all been of humble origin. The great Lin | coln was a tailor and worked in great poverty for many years prior to his l taking his place as president Presi- 1 dent Cleveland was @ New Jersey l farmer and was perhaps the most pros porous of all the presidents in his early | life. After he had served several terms i he returned to his farm at Princes | Town and continued to lead the life Of a farmer until he died, doing much of ! the work with his own hands because | be liked to,
 "President Roosevelt Is of Jewish de- l scent, though not of the OrthOdoL faith, his people having been converted to the Puritan and pilgrim faith soon after they emigrated to the new world MT. Roosevelt was a policeman for many years before he entered political life and was also a midshipman in the navy for time. He has always plain Iy shown his humble origin and during
 his terms at the White House would take long vacations and join parties oi
 the toughest kind of men and live with them for weeks-lumbermen, cattle
 herders and miners. His high life ex' | istence was always distasteful to him
 and be lived the life of a humble work
 man even at the White House, Mrs ! Roosevelt serving bis meals for him, SC
 djstasteful were servants to him."
 We are told "the sky sWeepers o'
 New York are modelled on the idea ot
 the EiHel tower, but covered witt
 stone. The people who live in the up
 per apartments are the poorer classes
 but their rooms are airy and light
 which is really better than living il l dark quarters near the ground, al
 they did on the east side in the day!
 before sky sweepers were built"
 Suffragettes will be interested tt .. read the following: Tn America wo 1 man suffrage has been accepted. Thl
 women vote, enter all political posi-
 tions. and it is said that ere long therO
 will be a woman president But tn
 unfortunate result of suffrage is tha
 the American woman has become in
 suaerable She rules with an iroI
 hand, and men are but puppets to her A FreDchman cannot understand Wh,