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Show Eskimos Have to Marry Whenever there has been talk of a tax on bachelors In Kngtand, (hcrv has been a chorus of protest. Yet their bachelors may consider themselves them-selves lucky, for amongst the Kskimos of northern Canada marriage Is compulsory. com-pulsory. Christian I.eden, the Norwegian explorer, ex-plorer, who recently returned from a three years' stay among them, say that no people live a cleaner family life thuu the Kskimos. Kuch man ban us many wives as he can support, ami nil are rcinuikulily good naliircd. Hud Semper Is considered a sign of being possessed by u ilevll, ami lying Is u crime punished by unit!,. Lcdeii cuinv across only one woman who was not married, mill that was due to tin' fact Hint her hair was too short. London Til ltlls. |