The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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TRIBAL CONSTITUTION
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a non-citizen desired to marry a citizen a license had
to be secured and the person had to take the oath of
allegiance to the nation. Divorces were given for ad
ultery, for imprisonment for three years or more, for
wilful desertion, and for neglect for the term of one
year next preceding the filing of the complaint or peti
tion, for extreme cruelty, and for habitual drunkenness
one year immediately preceding the filing of the com
plaint or petitiion.
The act incorporating the town of Fort Gibson was
passed in 1873.
The legal rate of interest was 10 per cent and the
contract rate was 15 percent.
In 1880 an act was passed establishing a paper, half
of which was to be published in English and half in
Cherokee, and at that time two men were appointed to
complete the laws of the nation and have them printed
in the national print shop, and it is from a copy of this
old book that the above information was taken.
FOOT HEALTH
Do you have trouble with your feet? More than
fifty per cent have foot trouble. Most of these people
could have had better feet if they had worn better
shoes.
Well, what can you do about it? A plan of foot
hygiene is simple and short, and if you start now
will greatly add to your foot health. A normal and
healthy foot behaves itself at all times and a foot
which isn’t normal can be made so if attention is given
to bathing, foot wear, and exercise. Perspiring feet
are a great annoyance. They are seldom the cause of
ill health. This condition can be avoided by wearing
larger and better-fitting shoes. The feet should be
washed daily with soap and warm water. Rinse them
with cold water. The temperature and moisture with
in the shoe play an important part in the care of the
feet.
Blisters are dangerous not merely because of pain,
but because of the possibility of infection. Broken blis
ters should be dressed with antiseptics.
The site of
the blister should be protected and relieved from pres
sure so as to give the skin a chance to become normal
and able to withstand the friction of the shoe. As a
precaution against infection, the feet should be keep
clean.
The correct shoe to wear is one as follows:
(1) Straight inner edge of sole.
(2) Narrow shank.
(3) Broad toe, and
(4) Broad heel, with heel coming well forward
especially on the inner edge of shoe.
Don’t allow shoe clerks to induce you into wearing
ornamental shoes for anything but ornamental pur
poses. The stage shoe with its pointed toe and small
size was never intended for every day use.
If your feet tire or swell, devote ten to fifteen min
utes a day to foot exercise. After the bath, while sit
ting on a low chair so that your feet can easily reach
the ground, place your feet about eight inches apart,
toes straight ahead. Keep the heels still, turn your
toes in and curl them under.
Hold the position to
the count of ten and then replace to starting position.
Toes straight.
Walking is good exercise to build strength in the
feet, but there is a right way to walk. The weight
should be thrown on the outer side of the foot, feet
should be parallel in a straight line and not turned out
or in and the heel should strike the ground first with
the weight, then swing forward to the toe which
gives a push for the next step.
These simple sug
gestions faithfully pursued will increase your foot
health.
THINGS
TO
REMEMBER
Phileas Fogg was the hero of Jules Verne’s fanciful
tale. He circled the globe in eighty days.
A famous desert island story is “Robinson Crusoe,”
by Daniel Defoe. It is also one of the earliest of Eng
lish novels.
The Volga river is famous for its sturgeons.
Sturgeons are also found in the North Sea and off the
North American Coast.
Peter Minuit, a Dutch governor, bought Manhattan
Island from the Indians in 1626 for goods valued at
about $24.00.
The Painted Desert, a vast stretch of arid waste and
sunscorched hills painted bright with reds and browns
and blues, is in Arizona. The intense glare of the
sun causes the landscape to swim before the traveler’s
eyes.
The Dutch were the first European settlers who
came to this country in 1609 with Henry Hudson, a
young Englishman, in the employ of the Dutch East In
dia Company. They called the state New Netherland.
A calorie is a unit employed in measuring heat and
energy producing values or food; also the amount of
food required to produce them.
Back in the thirteenth century a native of Hoochow,
China, discovered that pearls could be cultivated in
river mussels. Small foreign bodies called matrices
were inserted in the mussels. The mussels were then
put back into the water and left from three months to
three years. When the pearl was formed the matrice
was removed and white wax substituted. These pearls
were often made in the form of Buddhas.
Fine pearls have distinctly different reactions from
contact with different people. On certain persons
they flourish and become more luminant; on others
they die and lose their luster. Science has never been
able to classify just what brings this effect about.