Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . simpleopen air amuse-ments, and aregenerally pictures ofhealth and content-ment. Mr. OswaldCrawfurd, the bestof all English author-ities on Portugal,sums up the positionof the Portuguesepeasant women asfollows : I havenoticed that amongthe Portuguese peas-ant class womenhold a very independent position. Theywork very hard, they are active and cheerful,very helpful in any trouble, very genial andsympathetic, and yet full of quick answersand mother wit. They know well theirvalue in the economy of li
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . simpleopen air amuse-ments, and aregenerally pictures ofhealth and content-ment. Mr. OswaldCrawfurd, the bestof all English author-ities on Portugal,sums up the positionof the Portuguesepeasant women asfollows : I havenoticed that amongthe Portuguese peas-ant class womenhold a very independent position. Theywork very hard, they are active and cheerful,very helpful in any trouble, very genial andsympathetic, and yet full of quick answersand mother wit. They know well theirvalue in the economy of life, and withoutany clamour for impossible rights, take theirfull share of all that is attainable in thatway. Their suitors in love are very humbleand persevering, but the women know wellwhat is due to their dignity. Truly the contrast between the Portuguesewomen of the upper and lower class is a mostperfect object lesson against the blind preju-dice which would keep womankind in aparasitic dependence upon the work of BRETON GIRLS. Photograph by _ FRANCE Bv CLIVE HOLLAND A Conglomerate Race—Physical and Mental Characteristics of the Women—A ConventionalPeople—The Parisienne—Street Types—The French Peasant—Thriftiness oi the PeasantWoman THE French, though differing very mate-rial!} from the Italians, are neverthe-less connected to a considerable degreewith Italy, both geographically and linguis-tically. Who the original or very earlyinhabitants of France were is A Con- still a matter of some dispute. glomerate , , ... Race. Dut many credible authorities incline to the view that they came from an Iberian stock, represented nowadays in some measure by the Basques, and that the race from which the modern French may be said to have descended were the Gauls, who sprang from a Celtic stock. In the present-day Frenchwoman one maytrace the influences and strains of bloodwhich were brought to bear after the Romanshad abandoned the country to work out itsown civilisation
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