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Show ESKIMOS MARRIED ON TRIAL. After Two Years of Wedded Life Divorces Di-vorces Are Unknown. Tacoma, Wash. Tho first ethnologist ethnolog-ist to visit and study tho primitive north Alaskan Eskimos, Victor Stof ansson, has returned to Now Westminster West-minster with an Interesting account of two years' traveling among them. A peculiarity not hitherto mado public pub-lic In connection with Eskimos is tho system of trlnl marriages In vogue Conventional canons aro entirely disregarded, dis-regarded, tho only preliminaries to marrlago being tho securing of an option on tho heart and hand of nn Eskimo hollo by tho suitor. If, nftor n fow wooks or months tho couplo find thoy nro not congenlnl, tho girl ro turns to her father. It Is not unusual for n young girl to bo married flvo or six times beforo Anally finding hor affinity. Aftor two years' companionship, tribal divorces aro unknown. In middle llfo married couples bocomo moro strongly attached at-tached to each other than at any provlous pro-vlous stage. |