Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — The Superstitions Esquimaux. [ARTICLE]

The Superstitions Esquimaux.

All Esquimaux are superstitious about death, and, although they hold festivities in memory of departed friends, they will usually carry a dying person, to some abandoned hut, there to drag out his remaining days without food, medicine, water or attendance. After the death of a husband or a wife, the survivor cuts the front hair short and fasts for twentyfive days. On an average “the letters received for the Emperor of Germany number 600 a day. Good Advice.—'Use Haml's Honey or Horehobnd and Tar for acoagh pr cold. Pike’s Toothache Drot b Cure in one Minute. Some widows look u/great deal blacker than they feel.