| Summary: | Raps Teacher Who Wants Benefit Of Clergy. Raps Teacher Who Wants Benefit of Clergy WASHINGTON. --(UP) -- If marriage without benefit of clergy is all right with the Eskimos it's all right with Indian Commissioner John Collier.He promised a "proper reprimand" for a teacher on an Alaskan Eskimo reservation if reports he is insisting on the white man's ceremony are found to be true. Collier said the Eskimos are "the most virtuous people in the world." He denied they swap mates at will and explained their nuptial customs this way: The girl's parents invite a likely young man to move into the family iglo, where he sleeps on one side while they sleep in the middle and the prospective bride sleep's on the other. When the young man has acquired courage to cross the room, all that remains is for him to build his own; house and move his bride in. Sometimes it takes months and months.
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