Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s of their heterogeneous popu-lation. Only about one-fifth arewhite, and those are of Spanishorigin, and imitate, in a measure,, the customs of their ancestors.^T £8! HHHifM \m ^§§§§^> The marriages among this class are generally celebrated withsome pomp, and the fee for the^S ^ priest, even from parties of thelowest rank, says Goodrich, isnot less than twenty-two dollars,and this in a country where thehouses of the poor cost but fourdollars, where the price of laboris half a dollar a day, and wherethe church observances leave butone hundred and seventy-fiveworking days in each year! The remaining population is divided be-tween Mestizos, Mulattoes, and Zamboes, many of whom are but littleabove the savage, go naked, and have no established forms of marriage.The Mestizos are the offspring of whites and Indians, and many of the femalesare said to be very beautiful. Those who do not associate with and imitatethe customs of the whites, are omnigamic, and governed by their impulses.
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A MESTIZO GIRL. MARRIAGE IN THE NEW WORLD. 713 In North America, the customs of the aborigines are interestinglydaguerreotyped in a quotation from Mcintoshs Book of Indians, which Ifind in Marriage, its History and Philosophy, by L. N. Fowler. Theyare. lie says, generally contented with one wife; but they sometimeslake two, and seldom more than three. The women are under the directionof their fathers in the choice of a husband, and very seldom express a pre-dilection for any particular person. Their courtship is short and simple.The lover makes a present, generally of game, to the head of the family towhich belongs the woman he fancies. Her guardians approbation beingobtained, an approbation which, if the suitor is an expert hunter, is seldomrefused, he next makes a present to the woman, and her acceptance cf thissignifies her consent. The contract is immediately made and the match con-cluded. As soon as he chooses he is admitted to cohabitation; but the timeof the consummation is alw

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