Southern California; . heads or answered, no sabe. How-ever, I managed to make them under-stand, and incidentally saw manypicturesque glimpses of their simplehome life — the girl returning fromthe spring with a pail of water in eachhand, the dark adobe room with glow-ing coals in the fireplace and the steaming pot, the black-eyed children playing with their dolls and the group ofmen chatting while they soaked their rawhide thongsin the ditch. The simplicity and intimate familiarityof old and young, the gentleness and placidity of theirlife was charming and fraught with many a lesson forthose w
Southern California; . heads or answered, no sabe. How-ever, I managed to make them under-stand, and incidentally saw manypicturesque glimpses of their simplehome life — the girl returning fromthe spring with a pail of water in eachhand, the dark adobe room with glow-ing coals in the fireplace and the steaming pot, the black-eyed children playing with their dolls and the group ofmen chatting while they soaked their rawhide thongsin the ditch. The simplicity and intimate familiarityof old and young, the gentleness and placidity of theirlife was charming and fraught with many a lesson forthose who would fain be their teachers. Despite all this, the visit left in the mind more ofpathos than of joy. The cough of the consumptive was. liJB.^ -So BO DO heard only too frequently in this little town of two hun-dred, and the evidences of poverty, idleness and drinkwere all too apparent. With abundant opportunity toraise their own vegetables, they nevertheless depend ona Chinese vender who comes witli his wagon from townand supplies their very moderate wants. The men dothe sheep shearing for the country round, but many ofthem get drunk when. paid off and gamble away theirmoney within a few days. It is the old story of the grad-ual absorption, conquest and extermination, consciousor unconscious, of the native races wherever the Anglo-Saxon comes in their midst. These remnants of theMission Indians have seen their lands slip away from 83
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