. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . THE NAVAHO INDIAN EXPECTS YOU TO PARTAKE OF HIS SIMPLEDESERT HOSPITALITY. monial hospitality, to an elaborate spread and all thatgoes with it. But in our every-day homes, when ourfriends call upon us for a meal or a visit of a week, it isnot true hospitality to let them feel that we are over-working ourselves in order to overfeed and entertain 143 THE INDIAN AND HOSPITALITY them. When one has plenty of servants, the ovenvorkmay perhaps not be felt, but the pre])aration and pre-sentation of extra fine meals s
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . THE NAVAHO INDIAN EXPECTS YOU TO PARTAKE OF HIS SIMPLEDESERT HOSPITALITY. monial hospitality, to an elaborate spread and all thatgoes with it. But in our every-day homes, when ourfriends call upon us for a meal or a visit of a week, it isnot true hospitality to let them feel that we are over-working ourselves in order to overfeed and entertain 143 THE INDIAN AND HOSPITALITY them. When one has plenty of servants, the ovenvorkmay perhaps not be felt, but the pre])aration and pre-sentation of extra fine meals should be looked uponas an unmitigated evil that ought to cease. Why is it that the professional lecturers, singers,and public performers generally refuse to accept suchhospitalities ? Every one doing their kind of workknows the reason. It is because this high feedingunfits them for the right discharge of their duties. To. IN THE HOME OF A HOSPITABLE NAVAIIO AT TOHATCHI. overfeed a preacher (and I ve been a preacher for manyyears) is to prevent the easy flow of his thought. It isas true now as when W^ordsworth wrote it, that plainliving and high thinking go together. For the pastfive weeks I have been lecturing nightly in New YorkCity. I am often invited to dinners and banquets, butI invariably refuse unless I am promised that a fullsupply of fruit, nuts, celery, and bread and butter, orfoods of that nature are provided for me, and that Iam not even asked to eat anything else. I dont even 144 THE INDIAN AND HOSPITALITY want the mental effort of being compelled to refuse toeat what I know will render my brain logy, heavy,and dull. Then, again, when I am invited to a home whereno servants are kept (as I often am), and see the hostessworrying and wearying herself to prepare a great varietyof dainties and fine foods for me that I know Iam far better without, what kind of creature am I ifI can accept such ho
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