KODIAK, ALASKA,
JINK, 191S.
Vol.
XVIII.
No, :>
Additions To Our Family
When the Dora returned the last of
the month from the westward she
brought us four children: Matrona,
Mike, Irene and Xidu (rmsomoff aged
10, 7, ti and 1 yrs. respectively.
<)f lhene children Commissioner F.
C! Driffb Id of Fug* «ay“ they were
born on Seminofsky Inland and have
never been away from there, and they
are only four of a large family. The
father, a nati ve, has rarely been ofF
the island himself and in the past has
been w irking for Mr. Smith who oc
cupied and leas'd the island raising
cattle etc. There is no village ami
only t hree or four other people on the
island besides tin so people and Mrs.
Smith. Mr Smith died the middle
of last year.
Mrs Smith feels that she now has
to manage the island herself and can
dive little or no attention to the wel
fareof these little ones. They need
to he n tnewhere wherethey can go to
school and not crow up conipletly ig
norant of everything, besides the fact
that they are in very poor circum
stances.
These children are quite dark. The
thro, si uvllcv ones have very round
faces and all have very black tine
hair
The first morning after their arriv
al Matrona asked “What is that lug
thing out there!"’’ She was told it
was a tr»*e. There nr * no trees where
they fame fnon. Aday c-r two later
she wanted te» know who fixed lip all
the trees. Just now the spruces are
getting now cones and looked to her
as if they ha-1 been put on.
When Sunday came and they were
given ice errant they said it burned
their mouths Mike much amused
the small boys by blowing it as if it
were het soup.
They are bright nice children and
we hope they will be very happy here
and makegood progress in school.
In a 1»«11**r from Titiana Foreman,
one • >f our girls now living with her
sister in Seattle, we w« re told of the
death of her hr.- her David, who lived
S years in the Orphanage. In 1911
heentered Chemawa. Leaving there
last year he entered the army and
while in Texas was accidentally wound
ed and afterward had scarlet fever
of which he died last March.
,<
\\ e hud the pleasure of entertaining
Mrs. M J. Erskine of San Francisco
for some days Sb»‘is visitinp her
son A. C. Krskine of Kodiak. While
with us she took a number of hikes
over the i l-u 1 with tin girls, return
ing from each trip with arms Indent'd
with mosses, ferns and flowers. We
hope to have her with ns again before
she returns to California.