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Show LITTLE CHANGE NOTED IN HELLENE WOMEN "Isle of Silent Brides" Still Maintains Customs in Vogue for Many Years. By International News Service. ! CORFU, Ionian Islands, Sept, 15. : The days of Ulysses are long merged in the past and. the centaurs and satyrs no longer frequent the dolls and plains of old Greece, though the goats staggering around on the hillsides hill-sides otter a passable substitute. But tliQ spirit of the Hellene women seems to have suffered little, at least in so fas as they of the little island of Fa no are concerned. On this little island the Isle of the Silent Brides the young married women, who, by the way, are renowned for their beauty, must never speak fo mere man until her husband returns for most husbands are away and tho older women are pledged to stone into the sea any man attempting to violate their custom. And so the silent brides of Fano wait for their husbands, who, after a brief honeymoon, hie themselves to the United .States, where their stcadv job is being waiters. Through the allied navies the information has been disseminated, in ways only known to sailors, to . 'ware the Island of Fano. |