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the s a L E M I t e Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Press Association Published Weekly by tihe Student Body of Salem College SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 a Year :: 10c a Copy TRADmONS BEHIND MAY DAY PAGEANT EmroRi Air^TA fv Editor-In-Chief Cortlandt Preston Associate Editors:— Elizabeth Gray Virginia Garner Erika Marx Feature Editors:— Carolyn Diehl Jo Whitehead Senior Feature Editors:— Mary Penn Libby Jerome Martha Binder Margaret McLean Columnists:— , v Mary Elizabeth Reeves (Exchange) Emma Wargo (Chapel) Poetry Editor:— Margaret Wall Reporters:— Louise Freeman Anna Ray Fogle Mary Louise Haywood Gertrude Schwalbe Martha Schlegel Ruth Kuykendall Sarah Ingram Libby Torrence Mary Mathews Nancy Schallert Mary Lib Dobbins Margaret Calder Helen Smith BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Agnes Brown Adv. Manager Susan Rawlmgs Exchange Mgr Virginia Key CouncU How They Began The tradition of the May-Pole is a very old one ia England. Some times the pole was as high as the mast of a ship, and each May morn ing it was hung with wreaths of flowers, and the village people danced around it all the day. Frequently a tree was brought in and used from year to year as a May-Pole. The Puritans caused the May-Poles to be uprooted, but after the Restoration period in England they were re-erected and May Day celebrations revived everywhere. The custom of having a Queen of the Ifay seems to be a relie of the celebration by the Homans of the goddess Flora, whom they worship per on May 1. The English May Queen never joined in the revelries of her sub jects. Chosen because of her beauty, she was seated amid a bower of flowers and merely sat in pretty state throughout the day. a baby, and though the Montagus liad made every effort to find their child they had been unsuccessful un til he appeared as a poor, hard work ing little drudge. Lady Montagu was so overjoyed at finding the boy that she immediately gave a party for all the little chimney-sweeps. Tliis party eventually became an an nual affair, always held the first of May to celebrate the return of her son. After her death, it was found that she had left a sum of money to the city of London for the purpose of entertaining the chimney-sweeps every year. Since this event was their one holiday of the entire year it wa.s always spent in merry-mak- ing. Even after the practice of us ing chimney-sweeps was abolished in England, bands of pseudo-chim ney-sweeps always appeared on May Day, and now the tradition seems to be too well established to disregard in our “May Day in Old England.” TRABITIONS OF MUMMEES JACK-IN-THE-GREEN AND HOBBY HORSE ADVERTISING STAFF Martha Nolan Virginia Fraley Mary Daniel Eloise Sample Mary Coleman Henderson Martha Coons Eleanor Matheson Louise Preas Circulation Mgr Rachel Carroll Ass t Cir. Mgr. Mary Ruth Elliot PAGEANT of of (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) St. George prances to center stage and yells: Come forth, O dragon, enemy the human race!” Dragon suddenly appears—village people back up in terror—St. George charges—Dragon romps, snorts, etc. Finally, St. George spears the drag on. Then he ties a string around the dragon and leads him off. At end of play village people shout Bravo! Bravo! Etc. 1st Villager: Methinks we need to limber up a bit. Why don’t we all trip a measure? 2nd Villager: Nay, my bones do creak. Let the young ones cut the capers today. Jacque. If thou cans’t bear the sight of a simple shepherd, wills’t dance the morris wi’ me, Celia t Celia: Thy sheerpish look must be hid by thy Sunday coat, Jacque, for I see no shepherd now! Colin: Hear! Hear! I can make no pretty speeches, Rosalind, but we can outstep yonder loving couple! Isa Villager: Then step out then and dance! Four couples come forward and dance. 1st Villager: Well, if we can’t all dance, we can all sing, I trow—■ There are no rusty joints in my voice! 2nd Villager: Art thou sure! Me thinks I’ve heard a crack or two oftimes! 1st Villager: A pox on thee! Strike up a tune, Robin! They all sing “Lass of Richmond Hill.” a$w:Iopt —ialo ! shrdlu ETAO How happy will the shepherd be Who calls this nymph his own! Oh, may her choice be fixed on me! Mine’s fixed on her alone. . I When they have finished the chim ney sweeps come in and dance. When they are through they mingle witli the crowd and caper around! 3rd Villager; Alas, my Sunday skirt will need a deal of soap—when the sweeps have swept by! 2nd Villager: Patience! ’Tis their one holiday of the year! Chimney sweeps stop in front of village queen. 1st Chimney Sweep: Wake me early. Mother dear, for I’m to be The two queer looking characters you have observed among the village people, are traditional May Day fig ures, Hobby-Horse and Jack-in-the- Greeu. They were always to be seen in the crowds of people who went out from any English village ‘ ‘ to bring in the May.” Jaek-in-the- Green is sometimes represented as a chimney-syeep who wore a cone shaped frame on his head stuck full of green boughs and bushes. Dr. Owen Pugh says that Jack-in-the- Green represents Melvas, King of Somersetative who was found hiding in the bushes in ambush for Queen Quenever, the wife of King Arthur as she returned from hunting, what ever their origin the Hobby-horse and Jack-in-the-green are important to any typical May Day Celebration. Chimney-Sweeps The appearance of chimney-sweeps among every May Day celebration in Old Enyland seems to be a long established custom. Tradition says that one fine May morning a little band of Chimney-sweeps were sent out to clean chimneys. One little fellow was lost among an intricate net-work of flues, and at last found himself in a strange bedroom. Very badly frightened, he started to run away when he noticed a lovely lady sitting at the opposite end of the room. Attracted for some unaccount able reason by the sweet face of the lady, the grimy little chimney-sweep crept closer and closer until he was Able to watch her intently. All at once, he recognized her as someone he had known and suddenly he real ized she was his mother! And it ac tually turned out the the little chim ney-sweep was none other than the son of Lady Montagu, whose chim neys he was cleaning that May morn ing. He had been kidnapped when Strolling bands of Mummers were common all over England several centuries ago. Especially on feast days and holidays were they in de mand. On May Day it was trodition- al for Mummers to present a play for the village people. One of the fav'orite of all plays given on May Day seems to have been the story of St. George and The Dragon. We have included this historic legend in our pageant, but have seen fit to present themore delightful version of the story as portrayed in Kenneth Grahame’s, “The Story of the “Re luctant Dragon.” “And then,” said the man on the witness stand, “my wife hit me with an oak leaf.” “Well, that couldn’t do much dam age,” remarked the judge. “Oh, yes, it did, your honor! It was from the center of our dining room table.” Queen of the May! 1st Villager: Thou mean’st wake me early tomorrow—for thou to clean out my flues! Chimney Sweeps: Tomorrow’s another day! Today is the first of May! Today we are free to play! They scamper off. 1st Villager: Who’s to dance the May Pole today? 2nd Villager: I know not, but the young ones have set it up in readi ness. ’Tis sure we cannot leave ’til the pole is wound right properly! 1st Villager: Aye, and with proper mistakes, too, I’ll vow! 3rd Villager: Nay, the lassies have been playing with the stream ers since the Ides of March! They’ll make no false turn. 1st Villager: Look here, they come! Girls come in from the hill, and dance. When they have finished the crowd begins the “May Day Carol.” The Queen and court leave, then the village people lead out their Queen, singing as they wind up the hill. When they have all reached the top, they stop and sing while the crowd leaves. 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