. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . eded a change. c f.^c < If we would cease to,tle|),cp(^ so, much lippnomer countriesfor our models of life and thOiigtt, we woxddhave taken thefiist step toward the Ameri6anys,m which should be, but isnot, ours. We read a vast amount of the wonders of foreignlands J but very few writers—and still fewer reliable ones—tell us of the marvelous secrets of our own. Every intelligent3^outh knows that there are boomerang-throwers in Australia;but how many are aware that there are thousands of aborigi-nes in the United States
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . eded a change. c f.^c < If we would cease to,tle|),cp(^ so, much lippnomer countriesfor our models of life and thOiigtt, we woxddhave taken thefiist step toward the Ameri6anys,m which should be, but isnot, ours. We read a vast amount of the wonders of foreignlands J but very few writers—and still fewer reliable ones—tell us of the marvelous secrets of our own. Every intelligent3^outh knows that there are boomerang-throwers in Australia;but how many are aware that there are thousands of aborigi-nes in the United States just as expert vvith the magic cluT)as are the Bushmen ?* All have read of the astounding featsof the jugglers of India; but how many know that there areas good Indian jugglers within om own boundaries? Thecurious Passion Play at Oberammergau is in the know-ledge of most young Americans; but very few of them havelearned the startling fact that every year sees in the United * The PuelDlo Indians, who annually kill countless thousands of rab-bits with these THE NEV/T0R]nPUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, LENOX AND J HLDEN FOUNDATIONS THE GRANDEST GORGE IN THE WORLD. 5 States an infinitely more dramatic Passion Reality,—a fleshand blood crucifixion,—wherein an ignorant fanatic repre-^sents in fact the death of the Savior. How many youngAmericans could sav, when some traveler recounted the ex-ploits of the world-famous snake-charmers of the Orient, Wliy, yes, we have tribes of Indians in tliis country whosetrained charmers handle the deadliest snakes with impunity/and go on to tell the astonishing facts in the case? Howmany know that there are Indians here who dwell in hugesix-story tenements of their own building ? How many knowthat the last witch in the United States did not go up in thecruel smoke of old Salem, but that there is still within ourborders a vast domain wherein witchcraft is as fully believedin as yesterday is, and where somebody is executed everyyear for the s
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