Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ... : ? MARRIED WOMAN FROM THE PARISH OFFANE. NEAR BER. For this roads often bad, fewer women use theirright; yet there are some districts wherethe women make every effort to recordtheir votes: mothers carrying young chil-dren are often seen at the polling is no harm in accustoming themin good time to the public duties whichnow await the girls no less than the the other hand there are a few out-lving districts where not a single woman isto be seen at the poll ; but it is safe
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ... : ? MARRIED WOMAN FROM THE PARISH OFFANE. NEAR BER. For this roads often bad, fewer women use theirright; yet there are some districts wherethe women make every effort to recordtheir votes: mothers carrying young chil-dren are often seen at the polling is no harm in accustoming themin good time to the public duties whichnow await the girls no less than the the other hand there are a few out-lving districts where not a single woman isto be seen at the poll ; but it is safe toprophesy that in a few years time theseand delivering a voting paper, women are ideas will have penetrated to the remotest 75> WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. A NORWEGIAN GIRL SKI-ING. village, and the women will come forwardin the interests of society. Although in these and in many otherways women are taking their share in the pulsating life of modern times,The Dignity we dare to h that th ^jj of the r J Peasantry. n°t l°se that part of their old habits and customs which ismost valuable. All who are acquaintedwith the historical development of Norwayknow that there is a great deal of the oldaristocratic culture retained among the Nor-wegian peasantry,* not least noticeable * The meaning attached to the Norwegian wordbonde is not exactly what we mean by bonde is a landowner, not an ordinary labourer.—Translators Note. among the women. Even superficial ob-servers cannot help being aware of thedignity and nobility of bearing which char-acterise the peasant women in some of theremotest valleys of Norway. When the railways forced their way upthe valleys it seemed probable that theywould wipe out all that was most character-istic o
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