American inventions and inventors . ns lived. They had no beds, noseparate chambers, no kitchen, dining room, nor parlor. Inthis one room, if it can be called a room, all the families ateand slept. Around these fires they spent their time whilein the house. Here they lay stretched out for sleep, with 22 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. skins of animals under them as a slight protection from thedamp ground. They did not spend much time in changingtheir clothes, for they practically wore the same night andday. They really needed only the roof to cover them andthe fire to warm them. Though the
American inventions and inventors . ns lived. They had no beds, noseparate chambers, no kitchen, dining room, nor parlor. Inthis one room, if it can be called a room, all the families ateand slept. Around these fires they spent their time whilein the house. Here they lay stretched out for sleep, with 22 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. skins of animals under them as a slight protection from thedamp ground. They did not spend much time in changingtheir clothes, for they practically wore the same night andday. They really needed only the roof to cover them andthe fire to warm them. Though the fire warmed them un-evenly, though the smoke was uncomfortable, though thecold, the snow, and the rain came in at the opening and allaround the sides of the house, yet the Indians had a cover-ing, they had a fire,and they were to agreat degree content-ed, and happy. They were used tothis life; they knewno other. Even afterthe white men cameand the Indians hadseen them in theirhouses, they had nodesire to change theirmode of INDIAN METHOD OF BROILING. Ugh! grunted anold redskin, as he studied the white mans ways;—ugh!Injun make a little fire and set close to him; white manmake a big fire and set way off. The Indians needed food as well as covering. Theircooking must have been quite different from that which isdone on a large modern kitchen range. They had no domes-tic animals except the dog; no cows nor pigs, no hens norturkeys. They were compelled to hunt wild animals ifthey wanted meat. This meat they usually broiled; not ona broiler or a toaster, but upon slats or strips of wood placed HEAT—INDIAN HOMES. 23 above the fire. Fish was cooked in the same way. Some-times they boiled the meat. For this they usually hadwooden dishes, which could not be put over the fire. Thesewere filled with water, into which red hot stones were the water had been heated the food was put in it tobe cooked. We should now have some idea of the manner of lifeamong the Indians.
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