Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . al chances. The resulting sheaves are and Umbrian housewife. In September hung from the maidens chamber window, comes the vintage. Festooned from tree or displayed on the roof of her dwelling, to tree in an unending vista hangs the so that he who runs may read. Xor is this fruit, white and purple, which men and labour unenlivened by song, for the possession women, boys and girls, busily transfer to of robust lungs is as much a desideratum great baskets. These in their turn are in a wife as a sturd
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . al chances. The resulting sheaves are and Umbrian housewife. In September hung from the maidens chamber window, comes the vintage. Festooned from tree or displayed on the roof of her dwelling, to tree in an unending vista hangs the so that he who runs may read. Xor is this fruit, white and purple, which men and labour unenlivened by song, for the possession women, boys and girls, busily transfer to of robust lungs is as much a desideratum great baskets. These in their turn are in a wife as a sturdy ankle or nimble lingers, carried on primitive carts drawn by oxen to Probably the very day after the corn has the family winepress, or, it may be, to the been carried the stubbles will be turned little walled town hard bv, where the wine 716 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS industry is in lull swing; the long, narrow,winding main street is thronged from gateto gate With heavily laden vehicles, andreeks with the pungent odour of thegrapes which are being trodden in dark-vaulted basements on either ITALIAN WOMAN OF THEAGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS Showing the baskets used (or carrying dried grass,fruit, &c. The Lace-makers. of the oil they will produce. The first,according to a Tuscan saying, is gold,the second silver, the rest nothing. Theolives are then conveyed to the mill to becrushed, and after undergoing some furtherprocesses, the oil is stored for householduse, or sale, in orci—-great earthenwarejars of classic shape which recall the Orientaltale of The Forty Thieves. On the Italian Riviera the large flowerfarms afford occupation in winter andspring to considerable numbersof women and girls; but thechief female industry of theseregions is lace-making, in which almostevery woman is an adept ; even quiteyoung girls may be seen seated in theirdoorways, or by the roadside, pillow inlap, diligently plying their numerous bob-bins. Lace-making is, indeed, a home in-dustry more or less ge
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