Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . d feetclean, was sitting near her rockingthe perambulator in which the youngestchild lay ; the room was neat anddustless, and sheets of newspaperwere spread over the spotless husband and the other childrenwere still asleep in the one otherroom they had. Everything would beready for them when they appeared, butshe would be gone to work. And she isonly one of many. We are not proud ofour peasants, a German said to me oneday. I can well believe they are not ofthe men, or of the way the men
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . d feetclean, was sitting near her rockingthe perambulator in which the youngestchild lay ; the room was neat anddustless, and sheets of newspaperwere spread over the spotless husband and the other childrenwere still asleep in the one otherroom they had. Everything would beready for them when they appeared, butshe would be gone to work. And she isonly one of many. We are not proud ofour peasants, a German said to me oneday. I can well believe they are not ofthe men, or of the way the men treat thewomen, but, loving thrift and frugality asevery German does, I cannot well believethey are not proud of the women. Then, beside their thrift and cleanlinessin their homes and persons, the way thewomen work ! The barefooted carrierwomen, old and young, bent under their heavy baskets, tramping in and out fromthe neighbouring towns orlarger villages ; the gangsof road - menders ; theworkers in the fields, thresh-ing, ploughing, yoked with oxen, digging How the GermanPeasant TYPICAL GERMANS OF THE BAVARIANTYROL. potatoes or harvesting, are familiar sightsthroughout Germany. And another frequentsight is to see a girl or woman yoked witha dog to a cart of milkcans. Or again, tosee a woman and a milch cow, both unfittedfor the task, yoked together in the struggleto drag a heavy burden of milkcans uphillwhile a man, maybe, slouches by, busilylighting his suffocating pipe. In former years women were still moreterribly overworked in the fields than theyare now; they used to begin at four in themorning, and work on until nine—seventeenhours of solid work. When the family atthe manor house had a half-yearly wash 700 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS the village women were called in to help, andwere kept at the wash-tub from the mid-night of one day to eight oclock the nextevening. In 1880 the working-day wasshortened, and the normal hours now arefrom five in the morning to seve
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