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Although Amish women are
modest and dutiful, they do not stay in the kitchen or the vegetable garden all of the time. We saw
a few driving buggies in town. You can tell two
ways that these girls are unmarried, however, because they are wearing
white bonnets and riding in an open buggy. Married women and
families ride in enclosed buggies. Since the Old Order Amish do not use electricity
in their homes, they don't have television, radio, or computers. They
don't have phones in their homes, either. They keep up with the news, we
were told, by reading the newspaper
and visiting with one another. The Amish community comes together to help out when a
family has problems of any kind. They take care of their own and no one has or needs insurance. Divorce is unheard of among the Amish. |
