The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-02-06
SURFACE CIVILIZATION.
a ToUng zulu Girl Who Couldn't
Rcsisx Fer Natural TcndeucIcn.

ToUng 2ulu Girl Who Couldn't
Rcsisx Fer Natural Tendencies.
think quite the most curious in
stance OF the thinness ce surface civ.
liisation among these Zulu people came
to me In the case Of young Zuiu girl
who had been early left an orphan
and had been carefully trained In @
cieFgyman's family. She was about
10 years old when she came as my
nursemafd' and was very plump and
comely, with q beaming continuance
and the sweetest voice and prettiest
manners possible. She had a great
love or music and performed harmonl-
ossiy enough on an accordion as we'll
as on several queer little pipes and
reeds. She could speak, read and write
Dutch perfectly as well as Zulu and
was nearly as proficient in English.
She carried little Bible always in
her pocket and often tried my gravity
by dropping on one knee by my side
whenever she caught me sitting down
aRd alone and beginning to read aloud
from 1t. It was quite q new posses
Sion, end she had not got beyond the
opening CHAPTERS ee Gcaasis uud de-
lighted In the story Of Dam and Eva"
as she called our first parents.
She proved On excellent nurse and
thoroughly Trustworthy The children
we're devoted to her, especially the
baby, who learned to speak Zulu be-
rore English and to throw q reed as
sagai as soon as he could stand firmly
on his little fat legs. brought her to
England after she had been about q
year with me. and she adapted herself
marvelously and unhesitatingly to the
conditions Of civilization far beyond
what she had ever dreamed Of. A
friend O. mine chanced to be returning
to Natal and proposed that 1 should
snare my Zulu nurse to her. Her nus
bands magistracy being close to where
Maria's tribe dwelt, 1t seemed a good
opportunity for Maria to return to her
own country. Sc of aouTse let her go,
begging my friend to tell me how the
girl got on. The parting from the lit
tie boys was q heartbreaking scene.
nor was Maria at all comforted by the
fine clothes all my friends insisted on
giving her. Not even huge Gains.
borough hat garnished with giant pop
pies could console her for leaving her
little chieftafn," but it was at all
events something to send her off SO
comfortably provided for and with
two large boxes Of good clothes.
In the course Of few months re-
ceived letter from my friend, who
was then settled In her up country
home, but her story Of Maria's doings
seemed we'll nigh Incredible, though
perfectly true. All he'd gone we'll on
the voyage and so long as they remain
ed at Durham and Maritzburg, but as
soon as the distant settlement was
reached Maria'S kinsmen came around
her and began to claim some shese In
her prosperity. Free fights were Of
constant occurrence, and in one of
them Maria. using the skull of an OK as
q weapon, broke her sisters leg. Soon
after that she returned to the savage
life she had not known since her infan-
cy and took to 1t with delight. don't
know what became Of her clothes, but
she had presented herself before my
friend clad In an old sack and with
necklaces Of wild animals teeth and
proudly announced she had just been
married with cows" thus showing
how completely her Christianity had
fallen away from her, and she had
practically returned on the first oppor-
tunity to the depth OF that savagery
from which she had been taken before
she could even remember it. / soon
lost all trace Of her. but Marla's story
has always remained in my mind as an
amazing instance Of the strength of
race instinct.--Lady Broome In Cornhill
Magazine.