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HOW PURITANS WENT COURTING
By MARY GOSS
SOMETIMES we think of
the early colonists of America as being sort of prissy, but we shouldn't. They had a lot of worries und their way of life, which might seem strange today, was responsible for many of their strange idens.
For instance, they had a habit of marrying very Nearly every girl young. was married in her middle teens, and she was sidered, a hopeless old maid If she was single and 25,
COR- Life for the colonisis
grim business.
The Puritans also married often the death rate was high. and when a husband or a wife ailed, the survivor immediately started looking! for another mate.
There was a practical reason for this-it. wasn't because they were thoughtless or hard- hearted.
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In order to clinch the deal, Know Why Pigs Are So Fat? ·
the bride was supposed to ap- par in church The following Sunday clothed exactly as she was for her wedding. During the cold winters. this custom often had disastrous results.
There is
is the touching story Life for the Puritans was a
of n very
who grim business. It was n struggle
inarried Widated m
minister in food, Ket
clothing and the middle of February. True protection against
the bitter to tradition she went to church weather, Indians anel wild the Sunday after her marriage animals.
bridal dressed in her
outfit. The
early colonists "didn't he she sat for hours, shiver- There have the
knowledge
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-It's All Because of Their Curly Tails!~ By MAX TRELL AVERYONE was gathered at
Blinky Mole's under- ground house for a five o'clock snack. Blinky liked his friends to drop in. Today there were
pneumonia, cholera, small- her from the frosty atmosphere with the turned-about nat."
✡
Even slight inesses nçeded IT was the accepted thing for constant #ttention OT death
men hard pressed for wives
"matrimonial"
his
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A latre crack appeared in the ceiling. "Who's there?" Blinky then shouted.
Willy Toad, Glive the Saall, Blackie Beetle, a
a chipmunk, a different feld mouse, several kinds of bugs and worms, and men Knart and Hanid, the shadows
protect
"Have some
more to scarlet fever and but a skimpy colton "shift." Blinky kept mying, ព be diphtheria
often wiped
out By the next Sunday the minis- trundled about with a tray of whole communities. Accidents
"I like and ter was agal.. a widower. His milk
cockles. often were futal, even slight little bride had died of pneu- everybody to eat a lot." accidents that now don't mean mania.
At that
moment a large n thing. A man who cut him-
crack appeared in the ceiling self while chopping wood often
The of Blinky's room.
bugs died from infection.
scampered under the furniture fright, and Give the Snail drew his head back into
But Blinky and shell. would result. So it was almost to
the cat any more than any others looked up. impossible for a man or a wo- Judging from the requirements
"Who's creature. They weren't greedy man to face ife wione,
there?" Blinky shouted. That's listed in an ad by a certain why widows and widowers A.W. In 1750 they were apt to
It Was A Pig be a bit choosy.
A pig stuck his snout down "a crow who was sitting in a through the crack in the cell- Just over the meeting of ing. "Oink,"
said
this new the pigs, flapped down and said visitor. "Anything good down he knew exactly what the
pigs there to eat?"
ought to do if they wanted their
straight. Willy Toad
and Knarf and curly talls to grow
wanted several of the others shouted Naturally, all the pigs for the pig to go away. But to know at once what the crow Blinky, who was
had in his mind. extremely good-natured, stood on a chair and gave the pig a cookde, It.
contented- went off munching
always hungry,"
were afier and
apt to re-marry as soon their toss as they could. sometimes to people they
Tun
nds.
A. W. addressed himself "To the had known only a short while. ladies. Any young lady." They had to, to live. Some he said, "between the age of 18 times a m11 or a woman and 33 of middling stature, married three, four or more times, and everybody young.
1
ly
brown hair,
regular features married and a lively brisk eye; of good possessed of 300 or morals and 400 pounds entirely at her own disposal, would suit him to a T. Providing of
that course COME of the wedding customs "there will be no necessity of
were
odd. One
"Pigs are of the going through the tiresome talk strangest was that of the "shift" of addressing parents or guar- marriage. This meant that in- dians for their consent.". stead of traditional wedding
a
he declared, "Such a one," gown the bride wore nothing could leave a line for him at
cotton
British Coffee Houro single
in Corment the called # shift, which was sured of
much King Street and "would be as- like she of our modern clips. I
meeting person who she was married in such a garb, latters himself he shall not be We bride and everyone elee thought disagreeable by any believed that she would Pro- Lady answering the above de- tret herself and her future seriptions. Profound secrecy fomily-against-all-evil-spels will be observed. But he She would also, if she happened warned, "o trining answers to be a widow, free herrelf will be regarded!"
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"Finally," continued Willy,
tree
They're Empty "It's just this,' replled the crow, the real reason
that your tails are curly is because they're empty. There's nothing chuckled Blinky as he stepped in them. Now the thing for down, again. "It isn't really you all to do is to get your their fault, you know They tails Alled up. And the only didn't ask to be made
way to
to do that is to cat and pigs. Well, I guess I'll
eat and cat. If
you atur to spend the rest of the after yourselves enough, by and by noon fixing my broken ceiling, your curly fails will be
stuff But I don't really mind. It's ed. 100. And once they're an old ceiling anyway."
sluked, they'll be straight, "Why are pigs always hun- Just do as I say and you'll see
that I'm Blinky?" Hanid asked, That's an interesting ques
right.
said Willy,“the... tion." replied Blinky. "But I'm And 50,
pigs
have been stuffing them- afraid I don't know why. I selves ever since. But though don't think anybody knows they stuff and stuff and stuit
H
'S
and cat and cat and cat
talls, Willy Toad said, after and are hungry, hungry, hun- gry all the time-they hover everyone else in the room had seem to be able to get enough shaken their heads
and
re inside them ever to stuff up marked that they didn't know their tails. They just get big- why, either. But Willy's say ger and fatter and rounder
ing that pigs were always (the pigs do), but their tolls hungry because of their curly just stay the same size. And tails mado everyone turn to they still stay as curly as ever. look at him in astonishment. But still the plgs think that
Wiro Old Sow
the crow is right, and they "Yes, they're hungry because keep right on trying." of their curly talls," Willy re- Everyone at Blinky's thought peated. "I was told that by a
that this was д curious
and very wise old sow who
all used amusing story, And they to live on the other side of wondered whether really apd the road.
truly the crow was right, or "But, Willy," cried Hanid, Whether really and truly he "what have pigs'
got to hungry
"
was just making tools of the curly tails
being poor little curly-tailed pigs.
their
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"Well," said Willy, "I tell you exactly what the old soW CHORWORD: told me. She said that there Isn't a single pig in the whole wide world who is happy to have a curly tall. They all want straight tails. So long go all the pigs got together mid hold
mecting. The only y talked about thing they how to make their curly talls
grow straight.
wha
a
"Some pige thought that they ought to tie their talls to stick until the curliness got out of them. Some other pigs thought they ought to tie stone to their tolls, and that would make their tails hang WORD CHAIN: DEAD, lead, straight. But most of the other to lene, line, LIVE
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