Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . - centrea number of women who make a livingas lace agents, and act as middlemen between the peasant workers and the largefirms in Moscow and St. Petersburg. THE ABBESS OF EKATERINBURG. worn profusely bythe pearls werethe lace when ithead-dresses, still 688 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. RUSSIAN RED CROSS NURSE. Some fifty years ago the women used tospin and weave most of the clothing wornby their families, but since factories havesprung up the)7 find it cheaper to buy theirmaterial. The wives of artisans i
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . - centrea number of women who make a livingas lace agents, and act as middlemen between the peasant workers and the largefirms in Moscow and St. Petersburg. THE ABBESS OF EKATERINBURG. worn profusely bythe pearls werethe lace when ithead-dresses, still 688 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS. RUSSIAN RED CROSS NURSE. Some fifty years ago the women used tospin and weave most of the clothing wornby their families, but since factories havesprung up the)7 find it cheaper to buy theirmaterial. The wives of artisans in WesternRussia still do a good deal of embroideryon frames, and by its sale help to supporttheir households. The women of Little Russia have man} customs quite different from those of Great Russia, and, indeed, they mightLittleRussia. belong to a different nation. The) wear much brighter colours, andclothes of quite a different cut. On import-ant occasions they don velvet tunics with-out sleeves, embroidered at the neck andarm-holes. The young girls, who are oftenvery handsome, wear the hair in a plait tiedby long ribbons, and generally have severalnecklaces of glass beads or coral. A girlswedding dress is got ready for her as soonas she is thought old enough to be married,and in the event of her early death it be-comes her shroud. So great is the love ofthe Little
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