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Bright Eyes was a thorough democrat in her political belief, and she was somewhat offended at her introduction as a "Princess". She had read all of the Puritan literature, and association with the literary class of Britain, familiarity with the works of Lowell, Emerson, Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others of that school, as well as her attempt to bring self government to her own race made it very repulsive to be addressed as a "Princess". When the lecture agent took advantage of the situation in London and got alot of printed matter in which she was called "Princess Bright Eyes", she rebelled. She declared she would never appear on the platform again if she had to be given that title, and all that printed matter had to be destroyed. All that she would agree to was that she was to be called the daughter of a head chief in an Indian tribe. I told her she must conform to the customs of the country in which we happened to be, just as I conformed to the Indian customs when I went among them, while other white men ridiculed them. That argument had a good deal of influence with her. She was frequently entertained by the nobility in London and conformed as nearly as she could to their usages. Whenever she went into a room of that class, all would rise and not one would be seated until Bright Eyes was seated, for she was considered to be of royal blood. The English customs have endured unchanged for centuries and the