The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-24
IT ISN'T SO EASY
TO SAY THE WORD
Man Has Just as Hard a
Time Popping riae
Question as a
Woman
H URR Y, SISTERS
Take a Chance. If You
Don't Win You Can't
Lose Much

| There is peculiar thing about hui
man nature, no matter how much
man is blessed with the gift of CAB
when he meets the woman of his
choice he generally has difficulty in
finding words to express himself.
Especially so after he has just found
out that she is the woman.
| lever notice a couple who have
just recently discovered that some
thing that. causes them to
move mountains and crush any
barriers, merely to satisfy the
Whim of the other? Sure,
we know that later on there is plenty
of talk but those first few wonderful
days. All they do is devour each
other with their eyes.
| And the day the young man wishes
to tell her that she is 1T" Tongue
tied is an inadequate word for it.
All he can do is look at her and gulp.
| 1t is characteristic of the human
| race, this difficulty in asking the
fatal question and it includes all
nationalities.
Take the Indians. A recent book
entitled, Indian Heroes and Great
Chieftains' tells of the courtship of
one great Sioux chief, Two Strike.
Two Strike was great man in his
tribe and many stories were told of
him but the most interesting perhaps
was his courtship.
In the good old days among the
| Sioux, young man was not supposed
to associate with girls until he was
| ready to take a wife. 1t was rule
| with the young men, especially the
| honorable and we'll born, to gain
some reputation in the hunt and war,
| before even sneaking to young wO-
man and many life was risked in
effort to gain a reputation along
these lines. COurtship was no secret,
but rather a social event, often cele-
brated by the proud parents with
feasts and presents to the poor, and
this etiquette was sometimes felt by
a shy or sensitive youth as an in
surmountable obstacle to the fulfill
ment of his desires.
| Two Strike was the son and grand
son of chief, and had achieved
good name for himself He was of
manageable age with good war
record admitted to the council, yet
he did not seem to trouble himself
at all about wife. His was strictly
a. bachelor career. Meanwhile, his
parents had thought much about a
possible daughter-in-law and had
even collected ponies, fine robes and
other goods to be given away in
| honor of the event, whenever it
should take place. Now and then
they would drop a SLY hint but with
no preceptible effect.
| They did not and could not know
of the inward struggle that racked
The shy and modest young man
wanted a wife, yet could not bear
even to think of speaking to young
woman. The fearless hunter of buff
faloes, mountain lions, and grizzlies,
the youth who had won his eagle
| feathers in a battle with the Utes,
could not bring himself to take this
| tremendous step.
At last his father appealed to him.
| My SON. he declared, "it is your
duty to take unto yourself a wife, in
| order that the honors won by your
oCll anu youl duCCoIO1o w
handed down in direct line. There
are several eligible young women in
our band whose parents have init
mated desire to have you for their
son-in-law."
Two Strike made no reply but he
was greatly disturbed. He had no
wish to have the old folks select his
bride, for if the truth were known
his choice was already made. He
had lacked the courage to go a-court-
ing.
The next morning, after making
an unusually careful toilet, he took
his best horse and rode to point
overlooking path by which the girls
vert for water. Here the young men
were wont to take their stand, and,
if fortunate, intercept the girl Of