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THE INDEX, Saturday, May 12, 1928 15
A n d N o w — - T l i e C o u r i e r H o s t e s s !
W H O ever is responsible B.A. degree from the University dians out of old Mexican silver, possession is a string of tur­
for the profound of New Mexico) she serves as a hundred or more years ago. quoises, rich in matrix and worn
statement that "There hostess and guide to happy wan­ Woven in the design of the belt to a smooth polish by unnum­
is nothing new under the sun" derers, on pleasure bent over are the leaves of the corn, the bered years.
reckoned not with the young that part of the enchanted land stars, the clouds of the sky, in­
women of today and the numer­ of the Southwest that is not cov­
With such treasures as these
disputable evidence of the love of
ous ways and means they have ered by the beaten path and all
to be hunted, with hope of find­
beauty, the natural poetry that
of making themselves busy in the dullness it usually entails.
ing at least one or two of them,
is a part of the Indian race. The
this world. Just as we think we There is no dullness in those
added to the natural charm and
border of each silver section rep­
have caught up with the diverse places to which the courier host­
beauty of the trails, the mounresents
the avanyu, the small
pursuits of womankind, along esses lead their guests—only the
tains and the valleys, who
plumed water snake, sacred
comes a successful exponent of charm and fascination of gor­
wouldn't forsake the effete East
among the Indians. Another
still another "profession." She geous country, in the land made
for the glories of the enchanted
priceless treasure is a rosario.
is Miss Katherine Angle and her famous by age-old Indian tribes The pendant is a pair of wings,
Southwest?
occupation is that of hostess and the Spaniards of yesterday. symbol of the moon-bird that
courier for the Santa Fe Trans­
Arrayed in the most fetching
portation Company.
of costumes—Navajo blouses,
Miss Angle came to town re­ corduroy trousers made after
cently with her mother, Mrs. the Navajo style by the Indians,
George K. Angle, State Regent
with Indian conche shell belts,
silver rosarios and gay necklaces
of old coral and rich turquoise!
—over the trails and roads of
the Indian Detour they go, on
horseback and in motor cars, depending
on the character of the
flies between earth and Heaven,
a messenger from the Indian
people to the Great Spirit, carrying
a prayer for rain; the large
beads of the fosario represent
the drops of rain that fall as
answer to the prayer; the
flower-like ornaments are the
blossoms of the squash, the first
Indian plant, that grows in the
forests. Still another prized
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country; through the Indian
MISS KATHERINE ANGLE
land, stopping at Taos to visit
the artist colony which quite frequently
numbers a Pittsburgher
or two; through the land of the
pre-historic cliff-dweller; with
special trips to Mesa Verde National
Park in Colorado; to the
Grande Canyon, through Hopi
and Zuni lands, where one may
see the famous Snake and Shalacho
dances, or to the Carlsbad
Cavern in New Mexico, twentysix
miles from the town of Carlsbad.
And always there is something
to take the mind back over
the years when a proud' race
peopled the country and made
history for the students of today
of the Daughters of the Ameri­
and tomorrow. Bright Angel
can Revolution, for New Mexico,
Trail, Hermit Trail, Phantom
to visit their cousins, Mrs. Ed­
Ranch, Rainbow Bridge, Frijoles
ward H. Dermitt, Miss H. Marie
Canyon, these are only a few of
Dermitt and Miss Lillian Der­
the spots that allure with name
mitt, of Darlington Road. They
and fame and that hold with an
came from Washington, D. C,
irresistible power those who
where Mrs. Angle introduced the
have once seen them.
new President General of the D.
A. R., and Miss Angle served as And traveling back and forth
one of the special pages, along over this country, rich in
with Miss Florence Trumbull, beauty, antiquity and lore is not
daughter of Governor Trumbull. the only count on which one
But all that patriotic promi­ might be envious of Miss Angle
nence hasn't half so much allure and her sister-couriers. Miss
as has Miss Angle's vocation. Angle herself is the lucky pos­
Along with some ten or eleven sessor of some rare old silver
other college girls (Miss Angle things that have a charm all
herself is a graduate of the Uni­ their own. Among them is a
versity of New Mexico and the belt, formed of large, rather ob­
University of California, with a long sections, hammered by In­
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