Mrs. Mary McHenry Cox is beginning to take an interest in philology at her new Indian wigwam, near Wayne, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. She has called the institution, where over one hundred Indian girls of different tribes are trained and taught. Ponemah, and on Tuesday night she gave a tea party and open-air fete, which she called a “Wolwicayapi,” which means a pow-wow with gunpowder handed around in china cups. The Hiawathas of the West are somewhat picturesque creatures with their leggings and paint on, but if any one in search of the picturesque or beautiful hunts for it among the Indian girls in calico frocks and bib tuckers at Ponemah they will be disappointed. They are the ugliest and wickedest-looking set of young females ever brought together under one roof. Mrs. Cox is doing a good work in trying to make something out of them and such entertainments as the one last week help the institution very much. A number of ladies from Devon and other near resorts went over and helped Mrs. Cox pour out the tea, make lemonade and rake in the ducats. Numerous little trinkets made by the girls, such as canoes, brooms and bows and arrows, were sold. The Messrs. Crump, of Devon Inn, also very kindly tendered the use of their orchestra for the occasion.

Source: The Philadelphia Times, Sun., Sept 19, 1886, p. 9