Little Gnome Facts - Day 3

• Males indulge in pipe-smoking
• Males think of marriage about age 200 years
• Gnome women deck themselves out with blossoms or berry-bearing twigs for the celebrations
• Greetings, farewells and goodnights are expressed by rubbing noses.
• Gnomes are 7 times as strong as a man.
• Brain capacity larger than man’s.
• Hair grays very early, baldness unknown.
• Life-span is around 400 years.
• Gnomes are not tone deaf.
• Fingertips as sensitive as those of a blind person.
• Fingerprints are mainly of a circular pattern.
• Heart attacks unknown.
• Capable of smelling 19 times better than man.
• Sense of direction (as good as a homing pigeon)
• ESP...(nonverbal communication over great distances)
• Weather forecasting
• Visit their birthday tree yearly...often live under it
• Birth of gnomes is always twins
• Pregnancy lasts 12 months
• Girl children are raised by their mothers and neighbor women in homely arts.
• Boys at age 13 are taught the manly ways and taught his fathers trade
• Boys at age 75 years are introduced to the members of the Regional Council, a few he may already know.
• Gnomes love to dance and fine occasion to celebrate.