Douglas Island news., 1919-05-09

,ave sought Co escape missionaries.
 The rich provide for the poor and
 edith is measured in skins.
 Persons may be lawfully killed at their own request
 Strange tales Of life on Diomede have been brought to Seattle by Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Eide, who have made the island their home. Mir. Eide is a Norwegian -self-termed. an Eskimo scholar who a few months ago returned from the island, where he lived for three years as United States government instructor for the natives. Mrs. Eide is an Eskimo, one of a group Of six brought from Point Barrow Alaska by the famous missionary, Dr. Sheldon Jackson.
 My people think we are telling fairy tales when we tell them what The while man is doing" Mrs. Eide said recently to a Seattle Times re- porter. "They have no use for the white mans customs. When went among them on Little Diomede to teach them what knew of the ad- vanced civilized way of living they tried to convince me that was wrong"
 When she was small and up to tbe time she ,yas taken from Point Barrow. Alaska, Mrs. Eide was a member Of a very rich family Her 'ather was one of the chiefs and the best whale hunter Of the tribe. He was selected by the United States government Co bring the first herd of reindeer out Of Siberia in 1895. That was in the same year Mrs. Eide vas brought down from Point Bar TOW. and with six other Eskimos, was taken back to Carlisle. Pa.
 "We thought when we first started out that we were only going on a short Journey and thought the white missionaries lied to us when they told us about this country. We told each other there were no white women. because we had seen only Inc men"
 Mrs. Eide was in Carlisle for ten ,cars. and then went back among lore people. "They were strange to me-" she said. rcflecting back to that lay. 'I couldn't speak their Ian guage and ! couldn't get used to their customs for some time. In their rough house they had no chairs and everyone sat on the floor. It was a lon gtimo before ! could get used 10 sitting down without a chair
 This Eskimo woman, who was cd- ucatcd among Che white people and trained to do things as the white people do them. tried to teach her people. Though they believed her they felt their own way was better.
 Before she left Point Barrow the first time she said she remembered seeing some of her people at play. One of the amuscmcnts they delight cd in was a race in which the women tied two braids of their hair together and a man grabbed hold of them and raced out over tho ice, lragging the women. The object was to see how far the woman could endure being dragged Tho race was ,ver whom she cried out to stop. An other method Of carrying out this endurance test was to lift the women ID and down through a hole in the roofs of their igloos by their braids. The women In this ease said when to sep. The one going mp and down the most times won.
 Perhap, his bit Of entertainment would lead one to believe that the Eskimo woman occupies the same status in their tribes as that of the Indian squaw. but this is not the case. Eskimo women and children rule in that far North. Wherever one finds Eskimos this rule holds, md according to Mrs. Eide, a hus- band can buy nothing without the wife's consent. And 1T man and his wife are living with his mother, he must first ask his mothers per mission before starting out Co pur- chase some article, and even if his mother consents he must run the gauntlet of his wife's approval
 Children in Eskimo land rule their parents. IT they want some thing the father will rob himself of everything he possesses to get it for them.
 Mrs. Eide tells Of returning. 10 Point Barrow after being in the United States and being informed that her husband had been picked out for her by her father as is the Eskimo custom. she immediately made it a point to sec the man and told him he would have to ask for himself just as Priscilla told John Alden. And during this interview she admits she "kidded" him just Q little.
 Little Diomede, which is just a mile square and just across a short stretch Of the Boring sea from Big Diomede a Siberian possession, has