54 TEE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



houses into the life-giving air, sleeping-porches are now heing added to 

 their hospitals, and open-air schools and sanatoria established for their 

 children. The world really does move, and to some extent it seems to be 

 moving round to the red man's original point of view. It is not too late 

 to save his physique, as well as his unique philosophy, especially at this 

 moment, when the spirit of the age has recognized the better part of his 

 •cheme of life. 



It is too late, however, to save his color; for the Indian young men 

 themselves have entirely abandoned their old purpose to keep aloof 

 from the racial melting-pot. They now intermarry extensively with 

 Americans and are rearing a healthy and promising class of children. 

 The tendency of the mixed-bloods is toward increased fertility and 

 beauty as well as good mentality. This cultivation and infusion of new 

 blood has relieved and revived the depressed spirit of the first American 

 to a noticeable degree, and his health problem will be successfully met 

 if those who are entrusted with it will do their duty ! 



My people have a heritage that can be depended upon, and the two 

 races at last in some degree understand one another. This is his native 

 country, and its afEairs are vitally his affairs, while his well-being is 

 equally vital to his white neighbors and fellow-Americans. I have no 

 serious concern about the new Indian, for he has now reached a point 

 where he is bound to be recognized. 



