Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-15

ditional burden in a household in which there are few leisure hours. When the new hospital is up there will be a bright room with fresh air. clean bedding, and, above all, privacy, the strangest luxury in the life of an Eskimo.
 Native women, who have an apti- tude for nursing will be trained in modern methods. The medicine chest will hold supply of remedies and appliances to meet most needs of sickness and accident and to ward against epidemics. Father Goodman, as the missionary, is affectionate- ly called by his charges, is looked up on by them as an angel of mercy.
 <% Like a cut-Out Puzzle.
 This frontier hospital for Eskimo land has been made in Seattle, the most substantial type of up-to-date portable building, all ready to be put together, like child's puzzle-only the answer goes with it. The mate rials are all of kind adapted to a climate of extreme cold and wild winds. There are blocks of concrete for the foundation and for the chim- ney, matched lumber for the exterior and interior, padding between doors and windows, everything to the last bolt, ready to be assembled.
 The planning and the buying neces- sary to make the hospital an accom- plished fact have occupied the Arch deacon for many months. It is his own idea, and to carry it out he him. self has found the ways and the means. To stock the missions lard CT is in itself a task, and Father Goodman spent busy last fortnight marketing, buying canned goods, foods of every kind for different sea- sons, everything from soup to des- sert to last year, perhaps much longer.
 Point Hope Mission, established 35 years ago, is now an educational, spiritual, medical and social center, it's influence radiating to the remotest parts of the region, even to the out posts of the polar seas. No represen- tative of any other creed has entered the Alaskan Arctic, and Father Good man who had twice been sent there on special service for the Episcopal Board, found clear field on his ar rival two years ago.
 With his knowledge of the country and it's inhabitants, the Archdeacon is able to correct some erroneous i'm pressions about the Eskimos. They are quiet, peace-loving, musical ina ginative, and with white men, shy and taciturn.
 Women's Rights In Alaska.
 Under the kindly influence of the mission the people of the Point Hope region have made big advances in community life. Women now sit in council with the men, and, though they are but three or four, the gent Ter members speak their mind freely and get consideration. In the marriage relation a great change has been in stituted. Divorce is now rare, the pledge flor better or for worse" be- ing kept.
 Before the new code was adopted divorce was easy and cruel as we'll When a man tired of his wife he would cut her leather belt to ribbons with his knife and leave the frag ments for her to discover. It was a command to her to clear out. With eXclamations of grief and dismay, she at once bade her children farewell and left the igloo. She took nothing with her. No provision was made for her, no shelter offered. She was never permitted to return. If she was fortunate, relatives or friends took her in. If she found favor in the eyes of another man she might form another alliance with the same uncer tain conclusion in prospect.
 Native Notions of Death.
 The old Eskimo theory of death re- suited in many a tragedy in the re- zion before the mission brot new ideas