New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-24

most intelligent member Of the family how
TO make the best use Of her facilities, how
10 care for the invalid and how 10 keep
the baby well
1T Is folly IN try 10 get the mountain
people 10 come away from their homes and
learn our ways. We can only 20 to them.
Cooking q girl learns I'm scientific school
is not going TO help her much over the old
open fireplace IN her cabin. However after
the family has learned 10 know and trust
US they come to us sometimes. propose
10 have a settlement house for regular
mothers meetings, girls meetings, mems
meetings, church socables and Fourth OF
July celebrations. ] am going TO take
back moving picture apparatus and a
photograph. with instructive pictures and
high class music ] can appeal 10 them as
one cannot do to city people who are con-
gtantly being tempted with cheaper amuse-
ments These people know no amusements
at all, so ! can go 10 them with the very
best
The women and girls can come 10 my
settlement house who never could hope 10
go away 10 a school. and as ! have said.
! don't believe In taking them away. II
girl is clever and does well at school one
OF two things happens. either she never
goes back to her home and Is misht IN
the world all her life, or she goes back
and finds herself A different species from
her kinsfolk. She finds that the young
men who arc Ter equals have not come
back, and she is forced to marry men be-
meath her whom she looks down upon. or
else remain al unwilling and unwanted
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in the mountain cabin is very dreary and
very hard. There are no conveniences.
The homes belong to the civilization OF
our great great grandmothers. yes these
women raise their own sheep on the noun
tain pastures, card and dye the WOOL
weave it into ] sey-woOlsey and make q"
the clothes for family. The woman mas
TO help plough ia fields and hoe the corn
"Of course. tn Is not true Of ali classes
of society in the lntains' Every woman
isn't Obliged TO cook over an old fireplace
Some families can afford TO make trips into
the lowlands once In 4 while and to SEM
their children to school There are now
ever five million Illiteratcs in the southern
mountains. They can't go to school be-
cousa there aren't schools to accommodate
them.
People ask why the mounta!nccrs don't
come out into the civilization Of their own
times. why live as lid their ancestors be
fore the Revolution? ! answer; How can
they, when they never heard of anything
different? How can you desire to work IN
a cotton mill when you never even sa"
railroad? Besides. there is good hvinG
to be obtained froDl the mountains II IN"
people are only taught 20 develop their re-
sources. The land is fertile enough. II the
farmers only understood intensive iarminE
and with dairying, chicken yards and luH-
boring they are just as well of in their
beautiful. healthful mountains as In the
crowded industrial centres. Are they
grateful? That IS a question often asked,
and ono I never consider. Well the NOUN
taineer never says much, but he would
give his lie for me II he thought | needed
Il. / am quite sure. call that gratitude
/ expect to spend the rest Of my life work
ing with my mountain people"