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DEAR FRIEND,
REMEMBER ME FOREVER AS YOUR FRIEND AND CLASSMATE.
BEST WISHES AND GOOD LUCK.
STELLA LUBENSTEIN MM[
FROM THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK KEPT BY MABELLE FREUND AROUND
1910-11 IN ADELL AND MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
GIVEN TO THE ARCHIVE BY HER DAUGHTER, MRS. MARY ANDRECOVICH.
Data entry tech comment: PUNCTUATION ADDED AND FORM CORRECTED BY STUDENT EDITOR.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; ADELL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
DEAR SISTER,
MAY YOUR LIFE BE LONG AND HAPPY,
MAY YOUR ENEMIES FE (?) (FEW),
MAY YOU (YOUR) FRIENDS BE JUST AND MANY,
AS THE SPARKELING (SPARKLING) DROPS OF DEW.
BROTHER CLETUS
FROM THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK KEPT BY MABELLE FREUND AROUND
1910-11 IN ADELL AND MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
GIVEN TO THE ARCHIVE BY HER DAUGHTER, MRS. MARY ANDRECOVICH.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; ADELL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
DEAR MABELLE,
REMEMBER ME WHEN YOUR (YOU'RE) HAPPY,
KEEP FOR ME ONE LITTLE SPOT,
IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR AFFECTIONS
PLANT FOR ME A FOR-GET-ME-NOT.
MARY FINNEGAN
FROM THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK SUPPLIED BY MABELLE FREUND AROUND
1910-11 IN ADELL AND MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
GIVEN TO THE ARCHIVE BY HER DAUGHTER, MRS. MARY ANDRECOVICH.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; ADELL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
IF YOU FORGET SOMETHING WHEN YOU'RE GOING SOMEWHERE AND HAVE TO
TURN AROUND AND GO BACK TO IT, IT IS A VERY BAD OMEN.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IF A DOG HOWLS, YOU WILL HEAR A WELL KNOWN FRIEND DIED.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IF YOU TAKE A PIECE OF BREAD, BEFORE YOU ARE THROUGH EATING
THE FIRST PIECE OF OTHER FOOD, YOU WILL FEED COMPANY
THAT DAY
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IF YOUR RIGHT EAR RINGS, PEOPLE ARE TALKING BAD OF YOU,
IF YOUR LEFT EAR RINGS, PEOPLE ARE TALKING GOOD OF YOU.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
IF YOUR RIGHT HAND ITCHES, YOU WILL SHAKE HANDS THAT DAY
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IT IS VERY OFTEN A PRACTICE IN APPLETON, WISCONSIN
TO STUFF THE CAR OF THE NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE WHILE
THEY ARE IN THE CHURCH. THE STUFFING IS USUALLY
DONE WITH NEWSPAPERS AND MAKES IT NECESSARY FOR THE
NEWLYWEDS TO REMOVE THE PAPERS FROM THE CAR BEFORE
LEAVING.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT PERSONALLY WITNESSED THIS EVENT.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; APPLETON
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage F545.082 |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
IF, WHEN PICKING THE PETALS OFF OF A FLOWER, ONE AT
A TIME, YOU SAY HE (SHE) LOVES ME FOR THE FIRST
PETAL, HE LOVES YOU NOT FOR THE SECOND, HE LOVES
YOU FOR THE THIRD, AND SO ON TO THE LAST PETAL,
THE LAST PETAL WILL DETERMINE IF THE PERSON LOVES
YOU OR NOT.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT REMEMBERS THIS FROM CHILDHOOD IN WISCONSIN.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; WISCONSIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of object for determining true love P861.2 |
Date learned: 10-17-1967
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU WILL GET COMPANY THAT SAME DAY
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Magic of Speech, Sign, Color |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
WHEN MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY GET MARRIED, IT IS A COMMON
PRACTICE TO TIE TIN CANS AND/OR OLD SHOES ON THE
NEWLYWEDS CAR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT PERSONALLY WITNESSED THIS EVENT.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; APPLETON
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage F545.082 |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
IF YOU SLEEP WITH YOUR HEAD TO THE SOUTH, YOU WILL SOME
DAY BECOME INSANE.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; CHILTON
James Callow Keyword(s): MADNESS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Sleeping |
Date learned: 07-27-1968
IT IS CUSTOMARY, WHEN A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY GETS
MARRIED, TO TIE A HOUSEHOLD ROLLING PIN ON THE
NEWLYWEDS CAR OR IN THEIR BELONGINGS. THE ROLLING
PIN IS SUPPOSED TO SIGNIFY THE DOMESTICITY THE
WIFE IS GOING TO FORCE ON HER HUSBAND.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT PERSONALLY WITNESSED THIS EVENT.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; APPLETON
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage F545.082 |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
PLANTING BELIEF
IF CORN IS KNEE HIGH BY THE 4TH OF JULY, IT WILL BE A
GOOD CROP YEAR.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS MY GRANDFATHER, AND THIS IS
AN OLD FARMING BELIEF
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; KANSASVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): INTERNAL RHYME
| Subject headings: | Observation CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July 4 Independence Day BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming BELIEF -- Measure of time Year |
Date learned: UNKNOWN
THIRTEEN AT A TABLE
IF THIRTEEN PEOPLE EAT AT THE SAME TABLE, ONE OF THEM WILL DIE.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS MY GRANDMOTHER, AND SHE CLAIMS THAT ONE TIME SHE
SAT AT A TABLE WITH THIRTEEN PEOPLE. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MEAL,
ONE OF THE PEOPLE DIED.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; KANSASVILLE
| Subject headings: | 686 Specific number by specific number being described |
TO HAVE A WISH COME TRUE, MAKE THE WISH AFTER YOU'VE PUT
YOUR PAJAMAS ON. THEN TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF AND PUT THEM
BACK ON THREE TIMES, STAND ON YOUR BED TURNING AROUND
SEVEN TIMES AND FALL ASLEEP WITHOUT SPEAKING TO ANYONE.
Submitter comment: WIDELY PRACTICED IN THE UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN'S DORM AT THE
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; HILBERT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Custom |
Date learned: 08-06-1968
DEAR MAABELLE,
WHEN IN MY LONLEY GRAVE I SLEEP
AND WAVING WILLOWS O'ER ME WEEP,
TIS THEN DEAR MABELLE AND NOT BEFORE,
I'LL THINK THEE NO MORE, NO MORE.
YOUR COUSIN,
LAVERNE ALTENHOFEM
FROM THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF MABELLE FREUND AROUND 1910-11
IN ADELL AND MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. GIVEN TO THE ARCHIVE BY HER
DAUGHTER, MRS. MARY ANDRECOVICH.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; RANDOM LAKE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Small Town Funeral Customs
The small towns in the western part of
Wisconsin have furniture stores next to
the funeral homes. They serve as parlors
for the funeral. The funeral home is really
the casket builder's.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; Sparta
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
HAUNTED HOUSE
IN BARABOO, WISCONSIN, WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, THERE WAS A
HAUNTED HOUSE ON OUR BLOCK AND WE KEPT SEEING PEOPLE IN WHITE
WALKING AROUND IN THERE, AND DOGS HOWLING UP THERE AT NIGHT.
Where learned: WISCONSIN ; SUN PRAIRIE ; BARABOO
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Sign Color |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN