. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . apparently very old Indian took part inthe dance, and in response to an inquiry as tohow he could stand such vigorous exercise athis age he said that the dancing keeps meyoung. Strangely enough we do not remem-ber of ever having seen the Indian women par-ticipating in these festivities; they do, though,no doubt, l)ut it is not on record that they haveyet adopted the civilized forms of dancing inwhich, as Abe Martin says, nothing is l)arredexcepting the toe hold. We doubt very muchif old chief Scalded Face would be
. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . apparently very old Indian took part inthe dance, and in response to an inquiry as tohow he could stand such vigorous exercise athis age he said that the dancing keeps meyoung. Strangely enough we do not remem-ber of ever having seen the Indian women par-ticipating in these festivities; they do, though,no doubt, l)ut it is not on record that they haveyet adopted the civilized forms of dancing inwhich, as Abe Martin says, nothing is l)arredexcepting the toe hold. We doubt very muchif old chief Scalded Face would be living WITH WORLDS PRESS CONGRESS 45 now had lie been Icnrcd on our modern iorinsof dancing, in wliicli one is said to iive at a milea minute rate. Old Scalded Face lives thesimple life, com])aratively. We left Grand Canyon al)Out ten oclock atniglit and made no other stop of length untilabout four oclock Monday afternoon, when wereached Bakersfield, California, one of the mostprosperous of the medium sized towns in thestate. It is a mining and oil center and a drive. INDIAN WOMAN WEAVING A BLANKET over the city under the auspices of the Cham-ber of Commerce of that city was one of the mostdelightful of our experiences so far. We weretaken out to one of the oil fields where thereare three thousand producing oil wells and thenshown about town. Of course they have a courthouse, a library, a city hall, a park, a hospital,a high school, a Ford garage, an old townand a new town, and they showed them all tous with a commendable pride. Maybe we en-vied them a little. 46 A TRIP TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Tlie hospitality of the Bakersfield men wasgenuine and all inclusive, and we could not getaway from that little city without feeling thatin deed and in truth the California way is areal way. In a city near which the pay for oillabor alone is $50, a day, it is not sur-prising that there are things doing all the speak of millions where we speak of thou-sands. They happen to
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