The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-05

LOVA DAILY lIMES, ing the fishy and other unnameable odors in the air tight cabin; but felt when l drank in my first draft of clean cold air out under the stars, that l had been dreaming something absurd. The Indians are so ptifully ignorant and poor and diseased. The chief try to imagine it, was dressed in gray store clothes, pongee shirt and Panama hat with the U. s. flag and array of feathers around the brim. The dancers wore their shirts middy fashion, and had feathers bound about their heads with silk neckties. They also had feathers clutched between their fingers. The snaky, frenzied dance, the shivery voices, the faces banked around the room, give me the willies yet, when l think of them and remember the fishy stench. We were honored with chairs; but the Indians sat or lay around on the floor. In very tense moment, little fellow twisted and tore loose the bandage that covered the running sores in his throat and screamed. The missionary told me that it was probably matter of weeks when the ulcers would meet and kill him. A little half-witted hunch-back with tuberculosis leaned against my knee most of the evening and stared at me with the most weird eyes.
 The next day when we returned to town it was 50 degrees below zero. The dogs made the three miles in 121a minutes"
 Barbara Nafsted, small daughter of MT. and Mrs. K. Nafsted, celebrated her fourth birthday yesterday after noon by inviting to her home few intimate friends. The ones so hon. ored were Henry Maillard, Phyllis Reed and Lawrence Johanson The youngsters played games until the birthday cake was brought out and | then Barbara treated her little guests to very delicious refreshments. * * *
 A daughter was born to Mrs. D. H. Mack, wife of Lieutenant Mack of Mile ', last Saturday morning at the Cordova general hospital. The in fant girl will be named Betty.
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 Florence Kling Harding, the new First Lady of the Land, possesses an unusual degree of pluck and out spokenness. She has ideas of her own on many subjects and she does not hesitate to speak her opinions straight out from the shoulder. Those who work for her count her a kindly l and delightful mistress, but they know that any delinquency will call down reprimand they will not soon I forget. On occasions she has been shaking forefinger at her husband but of course nobody knows what that all is about.
 All her life Mrs. Harding has been 1 determined and tireless worker, not only in the details of her house. | hold, but ill the broader field of busi- uess and community welfare She | of P;rb Amos Kling, having been a rugged power of the pioneer days of Marion. She was born there, and although in | her girlhood her parents attained to moderate means they were not the 1 sort who lean to extravaganza.
 When she married MT. Harding in 1891, his newspaper, the Star, was not yet out of the woods financially and she went to work in it's busi- ness department. She applied her self to advertising aad circulation
 problems with an eye for efficiency all along the line She watched the original purchases of print paper and
 materials and she stood at the presses and gave instructions to the newsboys daily before they started , on their rounds with the finished 1 product
 It is said of her in Marion that
 when she became the wife of the struggling young editor she told her 1 friends she expected to make him president some day, and it is known that at some of the most discouraging stages of the preconvention campaign
 last year it was she who insisted most vigorously that the fight be con- 1 timed