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Show Eskimos Have to Marry Whenever there has been talk of a tax on bachelors in England, there has been a chorus of protest. Yet their bachelors may consider themselves them-selves lucky, for amongst the Eskimos of northern Canada marriage is compulsory. com-pulsory. Christian Leden, the Norwegian explorer, ex-plorer, who recently returned from a three years' stay among them, says lhal no people live a cleaner family-life family-life than the Eskimos. Each man has as many wives as lie can support, and all are remarkably good natured. Bad temper is considered a sign of being possessed by a davil. and lying Is a crime punished by ueaih. Leden came across only one woman who was nut married, and that was due to the fact that her hair was too short. London Tit Bits. |
