THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA, “RIPE OLD AGE” IN WORK AND HOBBIES Bancroft prolonged his comfortable eighties with his hobby of horseback riding. Out of door avoentions sre particularly to be recommended, with prudence and moderation, to gennrians. We do not need to go back to past history for examples of the benefit of a hobby, for we are ac- quainted with old men who derive a saving interest in life from thelr pas sion for collecting things, ul perhaps the commonest saving with Americans Is the habit of keeping at work. There Is after «ll no hobby like making an oto Grim Reaper Defers Call on Busy Man. of Old men have been rescued from brooding over uches and pains by many sorts of beneficent hobbies. Gladstone kept himself refreshed and prolonged his capacities far into the eighties by beguiling himself with translating lato, Hornee, and To like Alfieri. Arthur Balfour, at eighty, | one's work, and to keep on doing it. Is wrote works of philosophy in the | the true secret of a “ripe old age.” intervals of his transactions of the because one nffairs of state, Gladstone also had living one's chosen Habitual occupntions, when en- only a panacea, but antidote, for the work hobby venerable #vocation of one's voeution. lives on and on keeps cheerfully life, Joyed, are no; Very (ne ft happy hobby In the chopping down of trees In his woods, If he had not indulged In the indiscretion of =a horseback ride In a rainstorm, Washington might weil have pro | prematurely Is an ing longed his years with his happy hob- | reaper. When Mark Twain said that by of XVI of | he placid tiobby of frequently an paing of age To quit one's tation to the tree planting, Logis from “the worst of wits on the way to a wus suffering confessed his Fhe rips {old age Is still the busy one Ex digenses, old HE he with his nnusunl logs of the vest for work ith when the ing nn practical locksm ine cut him off, The historian ' change Boe too é samy | J Indians of the Northern Plains by Carl Bodmer (From Yale University Press Pageant of America’) HOW TO STOP A COLD QUICK AS YOU CAUGHT IT A New Method Doctors Everywhere Are Advising George Catlin, the Famous Explorer, Feasting With Chief Man-to toh: pa of the roren Tribe 3 From Catlin's own Sketch made about 1834 FOLLOW DIRECTIONS PICTURED BELOW Take Bayer Aspirin according to direo- Drink Full Glass of Walcr. i in package. he Me Jona Me Stanley era) Almost Instant Relief In This Way take and dissolved in a half “A Crow Hunting Camp» don’t By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ECENT drawings, exnibitions of native art paintings and other exam. ples of handiera n various parts of the country have served not only tO revive the interest of the of the Unite hahit + mhabitan 1 ies i je ’ » States In the original continent. the Mf a grou deserves a better f tial oblis These are Indians for most about the red man whil tively untouched by fluences of the white Foremost among the nan artists is that of George Catlin ion of him is nguiarly anprop te -ut tl time because it was just 100 years : lin had started on his work of recording the appearance, social life and customs of the tribes of the trans Mis. sissippl West, Catlin born In Wyoming, Pa. in 1798 and In accordance with his father's wishes studied for the profession of law. which he began practicing in Philadelphia. But, be ing fond of excitement and adventure, he found it difficult to stick to his business and he de. voted almost as much time to his avocation of drawing and painting, in which he was self. taught, as he did to his vocation of law. One day in 1830 a party of Indians from the “Far West” who were on their way to a coun- cil with the Great White Father in Washington stopped over in Philadelphia, Catlin saw them on the streets and was so delighted with their fine forms and noble bearing that he determined to give up his law practice and devote his life to making a collection of paintings of Indians which would show, after they were gone, how they looked and how they lived. The result was his first Journey to the Indian country In 1832 and for the next eight years he devoted himself to the work. He traveled many thousands of miles by canoe and on horseback among tribes which were still as wild and un- tamed as they had been in pre-Columbian days and he found plenty of excitement, difficulty and danger In his work. He made paintings every- where, portraits of chiefs and warriors. paint- Ings of the scenery of the West, of herds of buf- falo, of hunting life, of Indian games. cere- monies, social customs—everything that would Hlustrate the life and country of the wild tribes of the West. More than that, he painted scenes of old trading posts and United States forts, upon whose sites now stand important American cities, so that even If he had not left an In- valuable record of the Indian, the historical value of this other phase of his work would be great enough fo place Americans under a heavy debt of gratitude to him, Catlin not only painted hundreds of pletures but he made a big collection of Indian objects ~={ress, weapons, scalps, objects used in games, articles of clothing, ornaments, ete. With all of these he made a tour of the East, exhibiting his collections In the larger cities and every- where attracting large crowds, It seems unfortunate that Catlin could not have profited more from his work while he lHved. For In his old age he lost the fortune which he had built up, became a bankrupt, In fact, until all he had left was hig gallery of some 50 or more of his Indian paintings. These he would not sell but gave them to the Smithsonian fnstity. tion for safekeeping as an (mperishable record of his life work and of a vanishing race. Some of them were destroyed or injured In a fire which swept the institution in January, 1865, but the r ‘ Was % remainder which are stil! preserved in the Smith sonian sre vaiued at which, If ansthing, Is an sidering their importance, at the age of seventy-six, The same fate overtook most of the paintings of another famous artist, John Mix Stanley. For the same fire in the Smithsonian destroyed all but five of Stanley's collection of more than 150 paintings represented 10 years of work among 43 different tribes on the southwestern prairies, in New Mexico, California and Oregon. Stanley was born In Canadaigua, N. Y. In 1814 and died in Detroit the same year that saw the death of Catlin—1872. At the age of four teen he became an orphan and was apprenticed to a wagon maker In Naples, N. Y., where he spent his boyhood. In 1834 he moved to De troit and the next year his latent genius be. gan to show itself In a series of portraits and landscapes. In 1838.30 he made his home In Chicago snd Galena, the famous lead mining center In Illinois, and at this time he first be came interested In Indians, making trips to Fort Snelling, Minn, to paint them, From 1830 to 1842 he made his home again In the East and continued with his painting, His first important work among the Indians was done In 1842 when he visited the Indian country in Arkansas and New Mexico and made many pictures of Indians and Indian scenes The next year he was In what is now Okla- homa, painting among the Cherokees, the Creeks, and the Delawares as well as some of the tribes In Texas. The year 1845 found him again in New Mexico and by this time he had painted 83 canvases which he exhibited In Cincinnat! and Louisville, In May, 1846, Stanley returned to the West and painted the famous Sac chief, Keokuk, the wife of Black Hawk and other notables of that tribe. In October of that year he visited Santa Fe to paint some more pictures but Instead he joined the famous march of General Kearney and his dragoons from Santa Fe to San Diego, taking part in several engagements which marked the phase of the Mexican war that was fought In California, Golng north the next year Stanley found some more excitement awaiting him, for he narrowly escaped being In the Whitman massacre when that famous missionary, his wife and 11 others were killed by malcontents of the Cayuse tribe, He had another narrow escape from death a short time Inter when he returned to San Fran. cisco to take a certain ship for the return to New York via Cape Horn, He barely missed the ship before it sailed and it was lost at sea and never heard of again. Next Stanley went to Hawall where he painted the portraits of the famous King Kamahameha iii and his queen, less than 21 O00 O00, undervaln CON. ation, Catlin died In 1872 which by John Mix Stenley~l845 which now hang in the government formerly the royal palace, In Honolule Returning to this country in 1850 Stanley ex hibited his pictures in various and in 1858 he was appointed artist to the ex pedition government to route for a Pacific railroad from SL Puget Before this expedi tion he deposited his collection of Indian paint ings in the Smithsonian institution. Various at tempts were made to have congress purchase the collection for the nation but nothing came of them. The pictures remained the property of the artist, so when all of them except five were destroyed In the January, 1865, fire in the Smith. sonian, Stanley suffered a great personal loss, A list of early painters of the Indians would not be complete without including in It the name of Carl Bodmer, a Swiss artist who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Wied -Neuwied. when that distinguished German scientist made his Journey up the Missouri In 1882.34. Bodmer not only “left posterity a priceless heritage of Indian por. traits and pictures” but he also, like Catlin, made drawings of forts, fur trading posts, bat. tle scenes, ete, which are invaluable historical records. In the picture by Bodmer which Is re produced above are shown three typleal war riore of the plains (from left to right) a Mis. sourf, an Oto and a Ponca. Until a few years ago there was living in New York city another early painter of the Indian whose work takes rank with that of the artists previously mentioned. He was William De la Montagne Cary, a New Yorker who in 1861 with two companions made his way up the Missouri river from St. Louls and during the next 13 years put down on canvas scenes from the fast. vanishing frontier which are among the most valuable records of life in those days which we have, Others who might be listed, even If lack of spice prevents discussion of their contributions, are: Capt, Seth Eastman, a teacher of drawing at the United States Military academy at West Point, who saw service in the Indian eountry and was chosen to illustrate “Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Future Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States,” issued by the gov. ernment In 1850; Carl Wimar, a German artist who lived among the Indians for six months in 1857 and some of whose paintings are preserved in his adopted city, St. Louis; F. O. C. 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