. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ies and also of su]) is not my intent to suggest that we should revert totheir method of living a simple and unluxurious life,but I do long with all my heart that we might takelesson from them, and find the golden mean betweentheir life and our too complex and superfluity-ladenlife. If health and happiness are the ends to beattained in life theij. with their rude simplicity, havesurpassed us, with our elegant and ornate for me and mine I prefer health and hap])inessrather than all
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ies and also of su]) is not my intent to suggest that we should revert totheir method of living a simple and unluxurious life,but I do long with all my heart that we might takelesson from them, and find the golden mean betweentheir life and our too complex and superfluity-ladenlife. If health and happiness are the ends to beattained in life theij. with their rude simplicity, havesurpassed us, with our elegant and ornate for me and mine I prefer health and hap])inessrather than all the superfluities that a commercially-cursed, bargain-counter, curio-loving, bric-a-brac ador-ing, showy, shoddy civilization can give. 216 CHAPTER XXI THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE /^N a trip made recently from Yuma to the Salton^-^ Sea, down the overflow of the Colorado River, Ifound occasion to watch my two Indians in contrastwith four white men of more than ordinary intelligenceand ability. In some important things the Indians lostnothing by the comparison. Indeed, several times. CAMPING OUT ON THE WAY TO THE SALTOX SEA. I called the attention of my white companions to them,and to certain characteristics which are by no meansconfined to them, but that belong to most Indians, andurged their emulation. Some of these will form thesubject of this chapter. One member of my party was a reverend — amissionary. He was a fine, open-hearted fellow whomwe all liked, but every once in a while — indeed, Iought to say frequently — he would make suggestionsto the Indian to go here, or go there, which finally called 217 THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE
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