Another World
Another World
Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
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effected--CHOOSING BY FOOT--Expedients used when hand or foot
inclined to coarseness--GIRL'S DORMITORIES--Cleanliness--Separate
sleeping-rooms--Reasons--Communication with
night-watchers--Precautions--Mode adopted to ensure early rising--
Prayer not till after repast--Reason why old custom
changed--Careful discipline until marriage--Luxurious habits
permitted to married ladies--Instance of the elastic "frame"
cushion--The self-acting fan
XX.--CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
Means taken to secure congenial husband--Marriage councils--Choice of husband, how arranged--Maiden's right to nominate--The thirty-one evenings--The girl, how distinguished--Gentlemen who wish their pretensions to be favourably viewed--The unwilling--Efforts of pretenders--Agitation on the thirty-first evening--How the maiden proclaims her choice--The presentation of flowers--Subsequent meeting of the parties--Betrothal--Consequence of maiden failing to declare
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I found this book mildly interesting but the science in it is absurd. I know they didn't know much but I've seen better books during the period in when it was written. It was written by a person who was involved with the opera.
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