New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-14
INK0WA GIRLS
GET INDIAN SIGN
Win Health from Earth,
Brave Advises Council
at Camp Fire.

Miss Anne Norgan's back-to-nGture
crusade began yesterday with council
FIRE in Van Corilandt Park. e, which a
real Indian brave gave advice 70 the
pAlefaee girls.
you New York girls have gray hair
when you are fifteen and your teeth
fa.i out a; twenty-five he cred. shGs-
ing his feathe-ei head sadly. Ne, !
have hfty.ssvsn years, ard my teeth
dentist cannot 'oueh. car run A.
teen miles All this sn Indian woman
gave me because she wss strong from
living IN the great out-of-door,
you American giris. let mother
earth be your nerve tonic. Don't ,sNs
% on, - bottle
Miss Anne Morgan herself, in rose
coloroI sport suit hrsrdishsd her
cane and led the applause from the
corner Of the ,reat rock where she sat
watching the camu FIRE All around her
In 8 circle and spreading over the face
Of Deer Range Hill were her girls. tho
"lnkowaH." members ~ tho bsck-to.
nature association. Tho hillside was
sheltered from the north wind by Ind
ian ruga hung from poles. and 'hc
camp IRE burned 10 the centre % the
circle II was i.tst picturesque. etpc
cally when a tiny silver moon joined
the party
Speechr, were made by tho Indian
chici, Dr. Charles Eastman. Park Com
missioner Whittly. and Miss Grace
Parker, secretary OF the lnkowas
Oskcnonton. u Mohawk, sang several
Indian love songs.
Misc Parker announced that the new
organ cation Was open 20 any one who
wished 90 belong who was over eigh-
teen years OF age and would do as we
do" IL was not what one had, but what
one did. that counted in the lnkowas.
she said DR.. Eastman's version OF this
was: I'VE are not millionaires, but
millenniumaires." -.
III YOU want 20 come tomorrow"
Mss Parker said as the council! broke
up, bring your bacon and bread and
come along. Meet at the Dyekman
Street subway at o'clock
ABOUT one hundred former "Spugs"
and alumna Of Miss Morgan's summer
camp for girls at Greenwood Lake were
present. There was also the Indian
chiefs daughter, Irene. who breezed up
in a very New Yorky costume, greeting
he befeathered and beaded parent
with a cheeful Hello, daddy! ! tried
to telephone you
The naughty links" giggled when the
two Indian braves glided away IN the
Morgan automobile, leaving the little
New York squaws to piod home across
the stubbly fields OF Van Cortlandt
Park in the dark.
The links" were adequately supplied
InIlQ1
tho reasons for the great size, 10 say
nothing of the great success, OF yester-
day's outing was the invitation 20
Young men. The Spugs never admitted
men TO their Publications. The lnkows
camp girls could not invite boys ex.
cent on state occasions, but the INKS
stand for equal rights. Any young man
Who can pass the lnkowa tests may be-
come a member. To qualify, any one
boy or girl, must:
Walk forty miles in two weeks; ride
horseback; run and roller skate; learn
TO swim; identify ten native trees, ten
native birds and fifteen native flowers;
know the planets and five constella-
tons: read one standard book on the
American Indian. :,
The similarity between these quail
fcations and those OF the Camp Fire
Girls and the fact that Miss Grace
Parker, secretary of the Inkowas, was
formerly secretary Of the Camp Fire
organization led 20 some suspicion yes
terday that the new open air league
was 10 rival the Gulick organization.
hat this was denied The Inkowa girls
are ALI over eighteen, while the Camp
Fire mNabers are mostly Of high school
Last fsrng Miss Parker was one of
the ringleaders in the split in the Camp
Fire Girls. Many Camp Fire leaders
followed her in seeding from the ma
tional organization. Of which DR..
Luther Gulick Is president. A rival
league. called Woodcraft Girls. was
started, with Ernest Thompson Seton
At its head.