The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-01-07
Mountain Mothers
Are Pictured IN an
Eastern Journal

/ eight-year- old urchin tells me proud
that this is his third summer hoeiI
corn ..:s. .t.... II
The writer emphasizes the mou
taineer's love OF beauty. She takes Il
most ignorant specimen OF mounta
j, motherhood and reveals that even 81
can be aroused by the call of beauty
. My husband hes chopin at the fri
clearin two miles from here, and he
plumb crazy over the yaller lady slir
pers up that-a-way He's been a-sayil
must take the two least youngest
Kids, what aint never seed sech, an
go up there and see 'em fore they wa
gone. So Yesterday we. went 1t sur
was some climb over them old logs
but goshr- them lady slippers wa!
wuth It." -> w.
One OF the greatest characteristic,
IN the mountain mother is her ambi.
ton to educate her children. She Il
very often so hampered that she can
not do this fully, but it Is the grea,
ambition of her life No one can come
IN contact with them without noticing
it. The writeF is no exception to the
rule -. f..
"A few mileR out in the country, /
olteH stop to Zee another wide awake
nome maker, Mrs. Morgan, with her
three Youngsters and her big husband
In the roomy old farmhouse, behind
the fragrant sprawling lockwood bush
es, Whatever her farm work. every
morning Mrs. Morgan has lesson hours
FOR her two little boys because the VIII
lage school is too far away. Such
eager readers, these two little bows are
One who has the joy of giving books
10 mountain children has the reward of
seeing tousled heads bowed in utter
toandon over the page, and small bare
-oes twisting in appreciation" ..~
Another odd custom of the noun
aims is that, while the woman very
,tten aids the man in the work in the
ields, the man, as a rule, does none of
ne housework. The writer only found
ne man who did. .a
Aunt Sabina Strout Is not a femin-
ST. nor Is her big gentle husband. eff
out he Is the only mountain
IAN l nave ever seen who helped his
ne with the Homework. A niece once
puma MN bowed over the washtub
nd eSpostulated: ..1,,'
why do you do 1t, Uncle Gene?'
He Strengthened witt, noniuraI
rlde. 1 reckon because your Aunt
abiny has red hair" -. "-
The little anecdote above also rives
idea of the mountaineer's ever
esent sense of humor. -.. ~.
Or the mountaineer's idea of Cod
e author has to say: D.,
10 mountain people, God is no far -
unreality. a
He is instant, immediate .T4
His Will is the explanation of every
sat event or smallest daily concern Of
ey talk of him with no more self a
seriousness than If they were speak o,
OF The president or the United "
ties - III
They may by no means ALWAYS obav in
4 but they never doubt Him" TO
2 the summing up the writer saws. ne
ihese are among the reasons why
V1sh that many other Americans itS
10 know IN her own high home tn
80 the american woman of the rel
ihtains' me mountain mothers rec
Is harsh and hard ..-..
There is no thought here of any me
us Tor women, except the right to ms
anu rear children. n-9 w,
me mountain world Is a mans wo
Id, where womans life is subject spe
er husbands needs and then to her sin
!. me mountain man expects cv- hal
hlng or woman and he receives bus
alw
ne mountain woman neNnr asks terC
happiness, and yet, as / look into solo
eyes, deep and quiet, with a gaze v
has dwelt all her life on beauty Kea
as l meet her keen wisdom and livii
pubbling humor, l wonder IL she in a
not found happiness without any thre
ng. CT
ere IN the highlands the God of trip
fountains has given the mountain also
In dignity. soor
ldless patience with many chill w
has given her repose, a code Of ing
hospitality has given her beau the
courtesy. Mountain men are hard
err exactions on women, but per-
II Is because their women never Re
iese demands, SO that the men no that
than the children realize how city
q mountain mother gives. b /. 80
d perhaps there is nowhere in same
'orld spot where women are
leu as ney are in the Southern 1h1
nus. woman might tramp M
from end to2end of all this re-
md never anywhere be in dan
the faintest insult from any
man :.
mountain mother lives I'M 'heid
q by al modern life. In two In
res mountain people have chang
title that they are in many ways
pical Americans.
that is why it is worth while
her Americans to become ac-
ID with them. The past had it's
and the mountain mother to- Sey
not SO much woman belonging mad
lHerent geographical region aa gestlo
a woman belonging to for. Route
Martin Coun,y Adyor sick a
cspecii
9TH,
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