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"I'll give you 'Good morning, Nasser if I come over there."
AMISH WAY
IS IN
By ANTHONY BROY
A
Becta.
MERICA his dis- the
FASHION
Anish; theu well-filled
covered the Amish, uns anal plump cuttle; the long black beards, black hats and one of its Miest
Moinespun suite that the men picturesque religious wear; thu Mother Hubbard
dresses and caped hats of the Amish women; the horse-drawn, un boxlike buggies to whichh
Amish travel about
Spotlight was turned this unusual community by
Broadway with musical
successes - Plain the
exacting beliefs
of
Hie
TV, cars, phones
on the taboo list
An Amish farmer
and his
Three They are also fascinated by wife went to an auction to bid and and Fancy," "Papa is All" Amish; their refusal to own tele- Viaton, radious, automobiles; their
the
for a farm put on sale.
When the bid gol up
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and "By Hex," all based on refusal to wear buttons on their $40,000, an Amishunan signalled Amish ways and habits.
PubMe
reaction has been so strong that fashions have started in Amish clothing, hairdon, even whiskers.
clothes, use telephoNES, bear arms or let these children attend high schools and collegos.
and won.
to his "Momma," he turned wife. "outen with de money."
Momma dug her fingers down the Amish took hold. few into the black sock and pulled
Before this new interest
Americans hod
seun over
or out a roll of bilis large enough heard of this striet orthodox sect to choke a horse. Hollywood, awake to the of about 35,000, whose members
home
and trend, is dickering for seldom stray from
whose three life interests are the the Bible, the family. und the scripts dealing with Amish and destined to put farm. kleig lights on Amishland,
Thousands of visitors are holidaying this summer in Amishlund - the rich agricultural areas in eastern Ohio and southeastern Pennsylvania where the Amish have lived for the past 2 centuries.
PROSPEROUS
The first Amish America in 1714.
Nie
She started counting and when
Inished W49
she com- plained:
"Poppa, I got chust $35,000," "Ugh, momma" remonstrated the Amishman,
got the wrong sock,'
"you
arrived
in
C
the
Their farms today most prosperous in the US.
Not only are they industrious: they are thrifty as well.
favourite story
told They are fascinated by the which involves both Amish love loomy farmlands thui belong to for the soil and their thriftiness.
A
On their farms the Amish- men praclise brotherly help
In the believing fervently Biblical "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
They look with disfavour on marriage outside their sect.
This they tend to be homogenous group,
Because the petrol engine not min- tractor are
in the tioned or predicted Bible, they are the invention of the Devil, the Amish say. They rely on the horse, primitivo
and plough, shoulder muscle to do their work,
Even electricity is banned, Because th
moans no
central heating, they have retained the century-old custom of bundling.
courting Young couples, on cold nights. He or alcep blankets on Lugether under the same bed without undrews- Ing.
RIGOROUS
Amish elders feel contact with modern education will spoil their children for farm life,
It is not uncommon for Amish for be sent to anot ciders to fallure to send their children to school.
The rigorous life, satisfying to occasionally be- most Amish,
comes irksome to one of the less faithful.
A member may put plumbing into his house or buy a tractor or take a job in a local factory or cut his hair short or do of the thousands of things for- bidden him.
one
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Two stars wear Amish clothen, the, actor a beard ás well, during the Broadway play "By Hex," based on Amish Ways and' habits.
Neighbours,
even
father, re- the mother and children, will
fuse to talk to him,
in
Then the bishop pays him visit and solemnly warns offender.
If the Amishman persists
"wüful
misconduct," the severest penalty of the Amish
him- Church is vislied upon Meldung or shunning.
his
THEY WANT TO GAG THE DUKE
BECAUSE HE TALKS SENSE
MERICANS are being
told that the Duke of
Edinburgh is in hot
water. That
By SHERWIN ACTON
his self the wrong way. And it's a appointed role as ફા free good thing he does! speaking commentator on
"
at no
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that's why they step forward courageously to condemn But the answer to them given by the Duko himself. all has probably already been
him.
"Sometimes," he once said, when people object to a new idee, it's not that they really think i'a boð. It's just th they wish they'd thought of it themeolves.".
And at the last hol afternoon some Members of Parliament,
Alfred Robens, for instance. the pro- session, he opened ceedings by saying: "If any After the Duke had said that national affairs has made The truth is that the more of you want to take off National Service could be “a
character-building *x him unpopular in some Duke has burst the strait- your coats you might as well very. quarters.
jacket of Royal tradition. do it now and stop a lot of perlenco Mr Robens, on a Labour brains trust, upped and He has shaken off the huming around Inter."
urged that the Duke "be made to.
that undestand.. conserva- ahackles which for genera-
Isn't that, the answer, to al- "A good many
The result? Two hundred and time will British democracy most all the moaning about the tive Britons," says an in- tions have tied the Royal eighty young men a cross permit him to enter matters of Duke? fluential American maga- family to battleship-laying, zine, "find themselves ob- tree-planting, hand-shaking action of all that is setive and pollical controversy which will
intelligent In Commonwealth endanger the Crown.". jecting and pretty sharply and garden-party pleasan industry-go home inspired by
tries. to his new role.
the commonsense- bluntness, know-how, and common touch of a man they have found to". be one of 49,"
rubs. His Commonwealth study "He frequently various groups and vested conference on men and their work typical the interests the wrong way":
bustling job the Duke is to ing.,
Is this true? OF COURSE mis.
Should it worry Britona? OF COURSE SHOULDN'T:
Any young man with un- Imited onergy, on inquiring" mind and an uncanny kn of ferrette
concre bound
COMMON. TOUCH
That's why the public at large accepts him in his own right.
What, then, have the isolated fuddy-duddies and pinprickers: Hot against him
Political controversy? Political poppycock.
THE ANSWER
He is a young man with ideas, And not afraid to speak his mind. Always his great interest is in science and, technology.
"By and large, there is stil widespread disregard or apathy on the part of industry towards, the use of wetentific knowledge, he has said, ARE
Is that "Interforence?" that moddling?” “Of "It's the last time he visits, not. The Duke “seer MY Factory," wold a Midlands exiflent future of Britain: in bow after a few shrewd re- world's; markofaza Hei,
(ooling"
Prevolution, Ana”
his considerabl into,
From industry, too, there has been saiping
Who else would have some of the younger marks by the Duke about re- the sedd for a
thought of it? And even have been grumbling in private if they did, who else would that the thike in gettin have carried it through 7. thove himself. MEY!
He took the chairnt thundert.
sat in at
cour
Occasionally, Amishman, unable
quits ostracism, munity.
the
shunned to stand com- his
But in most cases he sees the "error of his ways."
He sells his tractor or leaves his job, rips out his newly in- the stalled plumbing-forsakes pleasures of the world and once again becomes one of the "plain people."
It is this dramatic theme of shunning which is the centre of most musicals and plays about the Amish.
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