accomplish much. Desolate
and comfortless though that home may be, it can be transformed, and
the husband even can be made to see that there is something more
real, something that is more satisfying, something that is more
comforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods.
"The man has more to give up than the woman if he becomes a
Christian. If a woman changes her gods and her religion, no one cares
very much; it is 'only a woman.' But a man must abandon his ancestral
faith, which binds him more strongly than the woman, for the very
reason that he is a man, and has been inducted into manhood through
the ceremonies of his religion."

He can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his
horse or his dog; and he begins to see that he can do some of the
work which she has been obliged to do, and thus she is enabled to
make home more attractive. With the dawn of Christianity comes the
first effort toward civilized ways. The husband now brings the wood
and water, and little by little a few household conveniences appear,
such as chairs, a table, a few dishes; also knives and forks are used
instead of fingers; even lambrequins are sometimes seen--hung,
however, in the most absurd way, outside the shades--and we are
astonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and
ruffled pillow-shams. Also a U. S. T. D. blanket is often spread down
for a carpet, and the rude, rough walls are covered with pictures cut
from illustrated newspapers.

We find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful
domestic arts, such as making light bread and preparing wholesome
dishes of food for the sick. The teaching of making light bread
became quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife,
and for the Indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite
fashionable.

Then she shows a desire to dress like white women, and instead of the
broadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short
calico sack, and moccasins upon her feet, she appears with a kilt
plaiting around her dress skirt, and, what probably in her mind is an
improvement upon white woman's taste, the plaiting is headed with two
or three rows of bright worsted skirt braid. As she admires the thin
and lightly covered head of the white baby, she closely clips her own
baby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible.
But all this is the mere outside of life--one benefit which
Christi