The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-24

I pen Ill LielT fingers OF Idhtu HOlQ OIL
book A table set for a meal is won
derful object, as is a two-story house
| And most of them go up and doWr
stairs for the first few weeks with al
| the awkwardness and caution of peopl
| undergoing a novel sensation. TIL,
| only objects you could show them tina
would seem familiar would be guns ant
shooting and trapping apparatus, Oh
| the heavy lidded ovens for cooking ovel
an open fire.
1T is some time before the mountain
girls quaint dialect wears off through
intercourse with her college associa-
lions.
Miss S., there's a power of hard
ness in our room,' a teacher will be told
some morning, and later it develops
that the girl means that the three or
four girls in the room have quarrelled
and authority is required to set matters
straight.
1.-TWO girls who although they could
between them raise only seven dollars
for their expenses, were admitted to
the college, said afterward, in describ-
ing how anxious they were to get in,
that they had just been a-snortin' to
come for long time.
"A girl who has puzzled for long over
a difficult task will tell you that she's
clean, done plumb wore to a FRAGILE
over it.
"As a class, these mountaineers are
down on all affectation and do not hes
itate to speak their mind when any one
Of them falls short of the standard.
Once a girl being ill her cousin carried
some toast and coffee to her room for
her. In transit some Of the coffee
spilled on the toast and the sick girl
said she could not eat it on that ac-
count. The cousin deliberately took up
her sewing and proceeded to upbraid
her on the subject.
Now, Sairy, yer kin eat tibet good
enough iw you wants ter she said.
'We-uns waz riz up together. What /
kin eat yer kin eat and we kin jist eat
anything. So yer needn't be a putin
on and a putin on, jist cause we've
come here to live. Yer nuther sumthin'
nor some nuther Yer jist the same old
Sairy and I'm jist the same old Jane.
So nary a jip of nuthin' else will you
get but that toast
Sometimes, after the longest train
ing in conventional speech and express
sion, a girl will revert to her native
tongue particularly at times when she
feels strongly on any subject.
$50 your husband was your cousin
and your mothers husband was her
cousin was said to promising pupil
whose husband had been run off by
government officers a year before, and
who had been rescued from a family
where she was clearly one too many
and not well treated.
Yes she said. There's a power of
cousin matches in our settlement and
It's time some on US was gittin' outen
ourn kinfolks.''
"Those familiar with the conditions
agree with this opinion. The particu-
lar families settled in a given cove
stay there for generations. A man
rarely goes more than two or three
miles away for a wife. Neighborhood
and family quarrels are hot and fire.
quent. In some districts where 1t was
to establish a school with an
educated mountain girl as teacher the
effort had to be abandoned because of
the long standing vendettas that pre-
vented any unity of feeling in public
1.-THE local preachers of various de-
who occasionally traverse
The district can barely read and-write
and for them to offer the
light of instruction is as the blind lead
ng the blind.
IF you uns is got anything to give
ookin' to the export Of this preachin' it
will be gradually received heard one
If these preachers announce once when
| collection was to be taken up.
From the beginning of the institu-
ion one of the discouragements met
With was the early marriages. Nearly |
III the girls approached on the subject
# attending the school were anxious to
ome, but some, although only thirteen |
II fourteen, We're already married and |
ettled, and others who could not ar
ange to enter Immediately became I
wives before the next school term
pened.
Many of the girls arrive at the
chool in ricketty oX-carts drawn by |
ne or two oxen; sometimes by mule
nd an OK hitched together. Some
lalk in company with their elders, a
wo or three days journey leading to
n eventful end. 1t is noticeable that
cry few of the girls after having got
n insight into the world and better
RIDER of living show a contempt for
heir parents or friends. There seems
strong tie of affection binding them
, their kinfolk and old associations,
nd they are always ready to make ex-
uses for the poverty and hardship at
ONE. The teachers who come in con-
,ct with the young mountain women
egard them as very promising, apt |
,holars. New York Sun.
i've often thought of what an I'M
,rt,IDa re- fellow Jonah was"