THE SAVAGE IN SOCIETY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 914, 7 February 1882, Page 3

THE SAVAGE IN SOCIETY.

A lady in Milwaukee who didn't understand savage customs has had experience, and now knows, There were a party of Sioux Indians at a Milwaukee hotel, and the ladies had a great deal of amusement studying their customs. The ladies called upon the Indians, and the savages returned the call almost before the ladies got back to their rooms. One of the ladies had gone to her room and retired, and pretty soon their was a knock at the door, and she found that it was an Indian visitor. She told him to come in the morning. The porter goes to the lady's room in the morning to build a fire before she gets up, and when a knock was heard in the morning, supposing it was the servant, she said " Come in." The door opened and in walked Lo, the poor, but very friendly savage. What followed the Milwaukee Sun chronicles : —" She took one look at him and pulled the bed-clothes over her head. He sat down on the side of the bed and said, ' How?' Well, she was so scared that she didn't know ' How ' from Adam. She said to him in the best Sioux she could command 1 * Please, good Mr Indian, go away until I get up ;' but he didn't seem to be in a hurry. He picked up pieces of her wearing apparel from tiie floor, different articles that he didn't seem to know anything i about where they were worn, and made comments on them in the Sioux tongue. The stockings seemed to paralyse his untucored mind the most. They were those long, ninety degrees in the shade stockings, and they were too much for his feeble intelleet. He held them up by the toes and said ' Ugh !' The lady trembled and wished him to go away. He seemed to take great delight in examining the hair on the bureau, and looked at the lady as much as to say . ' Poor girl, some hostile tribe has made war on the pale face and taken mnny scalps.' Finally, she happened to think of the bell, and she rang it as though

the house was on fire, and pretty soon the porter came and invited the Indian to go down stairs and take a drink. The lady locked that door quick, and she never leaves it open ac,ain wh. j n there are Indians in town. She says her hair —on the bureau—fairly turned gray from fright."