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Identifier: strangepeoplescu00evan (find matches)
Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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to keep out the cold. THE BOYS OF CHOSEN The boys of Chosen are a good deal likeboys in other places. They like to play games,and at certain seasons all the boys seem to bedoing the same thing. At one time they areflying kites; then they make swings of strawrope, and have great fun swinging. The menlike this sport too. I have seen swings on acountry road, near a little group of houses,where the boys would swing. Once a year,too, they have a season of stone fights, butreally this sport is too dangerous to call agame. The oldest boy in a family is the one towhom all the others must defer. He is spokento by the others as my honorable elder 214 STRANGE PEOPLES AND CUSTOMS brother; and whatever he says, must be done.If his father dies, he will have the little home,if there is any, and will be the one to tell whatall shall do. Chosen has also another title, which I havenot yet told you—The Land of the Top-knot. This is because the men wear theirhair in a little roll, or topknot, on top of
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In Chosen, meal is ground on a flat stone. The men wear their hair in a little roll, or topknot, on top of their heads. BOYS AND GIRLS OF CHOSEN 215 their heads. Over it is worn a tight band.Men of the better class wear over this bandthe small, finely woven horsehair caps I havetold you of. Outside of this is worn the bam-boo hat, which is so small in the crown that itmust always be tied on. Just now the peopleare in mourning, because of the death of theirformer king, and thousands of them are wear-ing white or cream-colored hats instead ofblack ones, as white is the mourning color. There are three kinds of talk in Chosen —high talk, low talk, and middle talk.Low talk is used in speaking to childrenand servants; middle talk is used in speak-ing to friends and equals; and high talk isused when speaking to old people or those towhom it is desired to show honor. When they are little, the boys of Chosenwear their hair in a braid hanging down theirbacks; and as long as they wear it this

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