CIVILIZATION


An officer of the Indian Office at Washington tells of the patronizing

airs frequently assumed by visitors to the government schools for the

redskins.



On one occasion a pompous little man was being shown through one

institution when he came upon an Indian lad of seventeen years. The

worker was engaged in a bit of carpentry, which the visitor observed in

silence for some minutes. Then, with the utmost gravity, he asked the

boy:



"Are you civilized?"



The youthful redskin lifted his eyes from his work, calmly surveyed his

questioner, and then replied:



"No, are you?"--_Taylor Edwards_.





"My dear, listen to this," exclaimed the elderly English lady to her

husband, on her first visit to the States. She held the hotel menu

almost at arm's length, and spoke in a tone of horror: "'Baked Indian

pudding!' Can it be possible in a civilized country?"





"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans."--_The Philistine_.



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