People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — Why They Arc Called Spinsters. [ARTICLE]

Why They Arc Called Spinsters.

Among our industrial and frugal English forefathers it was a maxim that a young woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set of body, table and bed linen. From this custom all unmarried women were termed spinsters, an appellation they still retain in all our law proceedings. What is said to be the smallest species of tree in the world is the Greenland birch. It reaches a height of less than three inches, though it covers a radius of two or three feet