Salt Lake Herald | 1893-07-18 | Page 2 | The Mitten

Tho iten A correspbndent explains the origin of a familiar phrase thus An oldtime i New England expression getting the r t mitten meaning getting your offer of marriage rejected by your best girl has 1 an origin in the customs of tho earlier days One hundred years ago gloves iL were unknown in the country towns Mittens were knitted and worn in all r families If a young man going home from singing school with a girl of his I n choice was holding her mittened hand to keep it from getting cold and took that i r opportunity to urge bis suit ii the offer proved acceptable the hand would remain re-main If taken by surprise an effort to withdraw the hand would leave tho mitten mit-ten S the suitor would get the mitten mit-ten but wonldnot get the hand This r I in eertainly a Very easy and plausible explanation s ex-planation when you knowwhat it is but il yen h4 not b en told the phrase would r be puzzling Q