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neither does she run to the stores to see the 

 latest styles in hats. She is always well, and 

 so are our children, and thus we have no need 

 of a doctor. Her three children she brought 

 into the world by herself. My wife doesn't 

 want to go out to play five hundred, bridge- 

 whist, or euchre, neither does she gossip her 

 time away with other women. She attends to 

 her housework, and takes great care in the 

 training of her children. This, together w^ith 

 the out-of-doors work that she has to do, takes 

 up all of her time. Last of all, the Indian 

 woman can be trusted better than the white 



woman." 



We have already remarked upon the fact 

 of there being so few married men in this 

 country. This condition of things is due to 

 there being so few marriageable young women 

 in the territory. It takes a long time and a 

 lot of money to go out to the States or to Brit- 

 ish Columbia to hunt up a wife, and so the 

 men doggedly jog on, week after week and 

 month after month, until the time comes 

 when they must go out to White Horse to 

 bring in supplies for the winter. There they 

 will see more or less of the fair sex, but ac- 

 cording to what several of the men have told 

 me, there are but few marriageable young 



