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The staid Amish farmers and their subdued women, in outlandish, Puritanical garb, pass along the road unstirred by the romance and glamour buried in those graves. Dead men tell no tales! Else there were no need that pen of mine should snatch from oblivion this tale of California.
Their clothes are so extremely plain that buttons, universally deemed indispensable, are taboo and their place is filled by the inconspicuous hook-and-eye, which style has brought upon them the sobriquet, "Hook-and-eye people." However, interesting as the men and women of the Amish faith are in their dress, they are eclipsed in that aspect by the Amish children.
Fortunately for her peace of mind, the New Mennonites were not, like the Amish, "enemies to education," though to be sure, as the preacher, Brother Abram Underwocht, reminded her in her private talk with him, "To be dressy, or TOO well educated, or stylish, didn't belong to Christ and the apostles; they were plain folks."
The strings of the thick white lawn cap are invariably tied in a flat bow that lies low on the chest. The Amish men are equally interesting in appearance. They wear broad- brimmed hats with low crowns.
An article on gasoline-propelled railway coaches, for The Illustrated World. A short contribution on scientific municipal management of public utilities in a small town, for Collier's. A character sketch about a local philanthropic money lender, for Leslie's and the Kansas City Star. An account of the Kansas Amish, a sect something like the Tolstoys, for Kansas City, St.
But quaintest of all were the Amish. The Amish are the plainest and quaintest of the plain sects that flourish in Lancaster County. Unlike their kindred sects, who wear plain garb, they are partial to gay colors in dress. So it is no unusual sight to see Amish women wearing dresses of such colors as forest green, royal purple, king's blue or garnet.
To Amanda Reist, the Amish children made strong appeal. Their presence was one of the reasons she enjoyed tending market. Many stories she wove in her imagination about the little lads in their long trousers and the tiny girls in their big bonnets. But when the marketing was in full swing Amanda had scant time for any weaving of imaginary stories.
Jacob Getz, though spoken of in the neighborhood as being "wonderful near," which means very penurious, and considered by the more gentle-minded Amish and Mennonites of the township to be "overly strict" with his family and "too ready with the strap still," was nevertheless highly respected as one who worked hard and was prosperous, lived economically, honestly, and in the fear of the Lord, and was "laying by."
She was a picturesque figure but totally unconscious of it, for the section of Pennsylvania in which she lived has been for generations the home of a multitude of women similarly garbed members of the plain sects, as the Mennonites, Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Church of the Brethren, are commonly called in the communities in which they flourish.
"And the directors is most all Mennonites and Amish and Dunkards. All them is PLAIN churches and loosed of the world, you know." "Oh, well, I'll wriggle out somehow! Trust to luck!" Fairchilds dismissed the subject, realizing the injudiciousness of being too confidential with this girl on so short an acquaintance. At the momentous hour of seven, the directors promptly assembled.
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