Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 3

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Metropolitan_1845. | pnoland and was brought to Virginia by SUUALD CLARSLIVE NEAR HODVER CANP llliterate Mountaineers in Dire Poverty 100 Miles From Capital.’ (Continued From First Page.) in front of the cabins for one of these | contests, which is both characteristic and symbolic. Entirely individualistic, it represents triumph over the great natural enemy —the rocks which clog up the mountain paths and the corn patches. After a man has held up a rock for an un- usually long period it is customary to drop it with a gesture of contempt. The people live under the constant frown of gaunt, bare old Stony Man Peak—one | of the highest crags in the Blue Ridge. They lack the imagination to develop a°mythology, but they seem to sense a malevolence in the great rocks which | they cannot express in language but which finds its expression in the game. ‘There are no children’s games. It is only with great difficulty that the boys and girls can be taught to play to- gether. Such a game as base ball— 2round—is unthinkable in the present | stage of their culture. It would be hard i to teach two children to toss a ball back and forth because this simple ex- ercise involves a certain amount of co- operation. Efforts have been made dur- ing the Summer to introduce such games as “blind man’s buff” and “Lon- don bridge is falling down"” among the little girls, but with indifferent success. ‘The idea of playing together is contrary to the mental pattern of the people and | much resistance must be overcome to | inculeate it. The children do not play because | their parents and grandparents did not play. Apparently there are no social no dancing, no neighborhood gatherings. Individuals live for themselves alone, | according to observers. The men hunt |alone and trap alone. The toothless | hags of housewives do not gather for | neighborhood chatfests. There are no “gangs” of boys and no corresponding organizations of girls. Games End in Fights. Games nearly always end in fights. The teacher’s hardest period is recess and lunch time, which is cut as short | as possible. As in all mountain com- munities, there is a certain clan feeling toward strangers, but this does not obtain between each other despite the extremely close relationships, brought about by generations of intermarriage. The pride and loyalty supposedly characteristic of mountaineers largely are lacking. . One result is the apparent complete lack of inhibitions. There are no deli- cacles of language. Any physical fact is referred to in the plainest words pos- sible with little likelihood or expecta- tion of giving offense, even by the small girls, “You cock-eyed hell-cat” is on of the mildest terms small girls apply to each other. Their Usual expressions are much more simple and objective. The adults, silent people, know and use few | words. The loneliness and individuality | of the towering crags is in their spirits, but they have absorbed little of the strength of the mountains. A curious return to primitive human | 1abor. Generally the manual work, such as cultivating the tiny corn, cabbage and potato patches, falls to the women. The men hunt. Nearly all have rifles, in which they take great pride. Game is scarce. Rabbits help keep the families alive during the long Winters. Occa- sionally a fox,or even mink, pelt brings in a little ready money. During the | Summer there are odd jobs about the | mountain resort near the summit of | Stony Man for those willing to work. Once the great source of revenue was chestnuts. Now the dead, white trunks lachians, cover the mountain slopes— ghostly symbols of the death and des- olation which seems to be coming to the communities themselves. Only a few healthy trees are left and it would be unprofitable to gather the nuts. With the chestnuts has disappeared one other | source of work and revenue—the gather- ing of tanbark, which was being dis- placed by scientific methods. So the mountain people have been left without revenue. Wild Honey Provides Revenue. One source of revenue remains—the gathering of wild honey. The moun- taineers are expert at “coursing” bees. A man will spend four or five days as much as 100 pounds of honey will be obtained, but quite often the amount found 1s negligible. This ability of “coursing” bees appears to be one of the few accomplishments. The men gracuce a good deal with®their rifles, ut not in competition. Whether they are good shots is open to question. ‘What was the origin of these primi- tive and degenerated communities? There are no written records, for writing long has been a lost art among them. The present generation appar- ently has no traditions and no folk lore which might provide a clue. Imagina- tion and memory have vanished to- gether. The majority are believed to be de- scendants of pre-revolutionary pioneers whose wagons broke down on the west- ward trek somewhere in the neighbor- hood and who became marooned in the mountain hollows. The population was| increased by deserters from the Revo- lutionary armies, British, Hessian and Continental. Still later came a few Civil War deserters from both Confed- erate and Union armies. According to competent observers, a New England twang occasionally can be detected in some hollows. Students of linguistics will find a wealth of material in the speech of thug‘seapfa which may prove somewhat difficult to analyze. Middle English, ap- proximately the language of Chaucer, which iingered on even through the restoration period in parts of rural the earliest settlers, still is found in a de‘cnenented form in these clusters of cabins. Use Shakespearean English. “Closen gentes,” cry a group of rag- ged children, thrusting bunches of blue flowers into the faces of Summer mpers. The flowers are closed gen- tians, but the mountain speech still retains the final “en” of the Middle English past tense. They speak of “nestes, postes, deskes” for nests, posts, , etc. In a sense, they preserve the spoken English of Shakespeare’s day. 1t has been modified, however, by other speech forms which ragged fugitives have brought into the hollows. Such words as the middle English “holp” for COAL Prices Advance Sept. 1st. _Always Best in Quality, " Always Lowest in Price J. Edw.-Chapman 37 N St. NW. Phone North 3609 | organizations, no instrumental music, | These mountaineers, five hours by au- tomobile from Washington, are mostly illiterate and still speak a dialect tinged with Chaucerian. Upper left: A mountain hollow mother. Upper right: A group of mountain children returning from a blackberrying expedition, Lower left: The schoolhouse at Nich- olson Hollow. Lower right: Miss Miriam Sizer, who has taught a public school for two months in the “Hollow.” —Star Staff Photo. help come in close conjunction with degenerations such as “bile” for boil and “pizen” for poison. The speech has all the indelicacy of medieval English, ranging from such mild forms as the universal use of | “belly” for stomach to a list of un- printable words which flow naturally from the tongues of the small children. The teacher of the Summer school which has operated for the past two | months has a master of arts degree in | English from the University of Vir-| ginia and she says that the ordinary | conversation of the children contains many words to be found only in an un- expurgated edition of Chaucer. “You real pur-r-ty,” a ragged little girl will say to a kindly old gentleman | who has given her a coin and patted her louse-infested yellow locks. The word “pur-r-ty” is the all-inclusive compli- mentary adjective. The speech is strangely lacking in sex differentiations —*“ma'm” being applied as a token of | respect to both man and woman. The language is not difficult to un- derstand, although a stranger may be | puzzled at flirsb. especially when the | i No style magazine can be more authentic — nonc so practical T\\'O great fashion features begin next Sunday in The Sunday Star. A page of fashion pic- tures each Sunday by Helen Dryden, America’s highest-paid 'w om a n artist, with Miss Dry- den’s suggestions on adapting the mode to your own particular re- quirements. Then a beautiful roto- fravure page of fashion photographs. E very style selected by the ex- perts of the International Fashion Forum, of which The Star is-a member. These features have this in common: every style shown will be wear= able, will be authentic, and will be readily pur- chasable in, Washington. Beginning Sunday, September 8—and Anne Nichols Becomes Catholie. 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