Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . AN OSTIAK WOMAN, by Norman H Hakdy. RUSSIA 687 with combs of imitation tortoise-shell. Itis to the rural parts of Russia that we mustlook for the remnants of ancient Slavcustoms, and when we find them they areso mixed up with traces of Mohammedan-ism and with the ceremonies and laws intro-duced by the Greek Church that wide studyis required before wecan separate onefrom the other. To the peasants ofGreat Russia mar- Sanctity ofMarriage. nage is atie that. deathalone can dissolve,and
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . AN OSTIAK WOMAN, by Norman H Hakdy. RUSSIA 687 with combs of imitation tortoise-shell. Itis to the rural parts of Russia that we mustlook for the remnants of ancient Slavcustoms, and when we find them they areso mixed up with traces of Mohammedan-ism and with the ceremonies and laws intro-duced by the Greek Church that wide studyis required before wecan separate onefrom the other. To the peasants ofGreat Russia mar- Sanctity ofMarriage. nage is atie that. deathalone can dissolve,and divorce by thehelp of the lawcourts is practicallyunknown to a husband andwife cannot get ontogether they simplyagree between them-selves to five apart,the husband takingthe boys and thewife the girls incases where thereare children. Thewifes dowry remains her own as long as she fives, and afterher death it goes to the nearest femaledescendant. Money earned by the wife isher own, and she is free to do what shelikes with it. When a widow is left with-out children she usually returns to herown people ; she has the right to marryagain as soon as her husband has been deadsix months. The Greek Church forbids cousins tomarry until the fourth degree, and mar-riage with a deceased wifes sister is stillunlawful. When small groups of peasantsfive far out in the country, separated asif by the sea from their nearest neighbours,this strictness of the marriage laws isbeneficial, for, as in our own Hebrides,where the young people have so littlechoice, near marriag
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