. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . y to compelthe fingers and hands to obey the dictates of the brain. Education is by no means a matter of is a discipline of the eye, the hand, the muscles, thenerves, the whole body, to obey the dictates of thehighest judgment, to the end that the best life, thehappiest, the healthiest, and the most useful, may beattained, and if this definition be at all a true one Iam fully satisfied that if we injected into our methodsof civilized education a solution of three-fifths ofIndian methods we s
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . y to compelthe fingers and hands to obey the dictates of the brain. Education is by no means a matter of is a discipline of the eye, the hand, the muscles, thenerves, the whole body, to obey the dictates of thehighest judgment, to the end that the best life, thehappiest, the healthiest, and the most useful, may beattained, and if this definition be at all a true one Iam fully satisfied that if we injected into our methodsof civilized education a solution of three-fifths ofIndian methods we should give to our race an immeas-urably greater happiness, greater health, and greaterusefulness. *See Indians of the Painted Desert Region, Little, Brown, & Company, 142 CHAPTER XII THE INDIAN AND HOSPITALITY A NOTHER of the things I think we might well learn-^^ from the Indian is his kind of hospitality. Toooften in our so-called civilization hospitality degener-ates into a kindof extravagant,wasteful, injuri-ous do not object,on formal occa-sions, to cere-. THE NAVAHO INDIAN EXPECTS YOU TO PARTAKE OF HIS SIMPLEDESERT HOSPITALITY. monial hospitality, to an elaborate spread and all thatgoes with it. But in our every-day homes, when ourfriends call upon us for a meal or a visit of a week, it isnot true hospitality to let them feel that we are over-working ourselves in order to overfeed and entertain 143 THE INDIAN AND HOSPITALITY them. When one has plenty of servants, the ovenvorkmay perhaps not be felt, but the pre])aration and pre-sentation of extra fine meals should be looked uponas an unmitigated evil that ought to cease. Why is it that the professional lecturers, singers,and public performers generally refuse to accept suchhospitalities ? Every one doing their kind of workknows the reason. It is because this high feedingunfits them for the right discharge of their duties. To
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