Where Courtship Is Privilege of Women in Asia and Beyond
A colonial era digest describes varied marriage customs. It notes Indo-Chinese areas where women initiate divorce and keep children and property, maternal kinship groups where a wife can marry by proposal, and customs in southern India and Borneo where women influence courtship and select husbands.
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Borneo
London Daily Mail
Flower Oracle Tales From A Village Pin Plant
An American visitor in England discovers a village practice using a pin plant as an love oracle. If the plant blooms and curves upward over several days, happy marriage is foretold. withers, disaster in love.
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Petrarch as Scholar Among Europe’s Great Figures
The Kansas City Star notes Francesco Petrarch as a leading revival figure in learning. Born 1804, died 1874, he rivaled Dante in greatness and shaped how Greece and Rome were viewed as living times, not mere museum pieces. He created a major library and spurred Italy toward the Renaissance.
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Used to It Clergyman Handles Hotel Jests
A hotel frequented by commercial travelers becomes the scene for repeated jests aimed at a visiting clergyman. After a sharp dinner table quip, he calmly reveals he is the chaplain at a lunatic asylum and is accustomed to such remarks.
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