Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ES. birth. Geneva enacts that three hours aweek shall be devoted to manual girls are instructed in the occupationwhich will surely be theirs, ^whatever betheir individual destiny. In most of thecantons dressmaking is a compulsory sub-ject, and from two to eight hours a weekare devoted to cutting out, a work of nolittle artistic importance. .Many of the Swiss cantons boast ofnormal schools for the training of teachers,both male and female. The age of entryinto these establishments is fixed
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ES. birth. Geneva enacts that three hours aweek shall be devoted to manual girls are instructed in the occupationwhich will surely be theirs, ^whatever betheir individual destiny. In most of thecantons dressmaking is a compulsory sub-ject, and from two to eight hours a weekare devoted to cutting out, a work of nolittle artistic importance. .Many of the Swiss cantons boast ofnormal schools for the training of teachers,both male and female. The age of entryinto these establishments is fixed at fourteenin the Grisons, at sixteen in Schwyz and atLausanne, and fifteen in other course of instruction lasts two years inValais, and in the canton of Vaud the sameperiod is fixed for young women ; but inmost of the other cantons it extends to 734 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS three or four years. There is a strong tend-i towards the co-education of the Lausanne a girl who leaves her highschool with a diploma may, on that evi-dence, continue her studies at the SWISS PEASANT GIRL. In wandering through the Forest can-tons, one may find the distinctive dressnow and then, though even inNative Dress ^ conservative of the Disappearing. cantons, such as Unterwald and Schwyz, it is not often you will get aglimpse of the cantonal costume, except forthe head-dress of the women. In Schwyz,the maidens who keep up the old fashionwear a black cap, the married women awhite one, observes Mr. Clarence Rook. In his observations of Swiss Life inTown and Country, Mr. Alfred Story writesthus of the Swiss costumes as surviving inthe Forest cantons. As to the maids andmatrons of Schwyz, in their caps are twoslips of upright lace, which, coming frombehind over the head, meet on the fore-head, the whole having the appearance of abutterfly with wings half-spread. Between these the girls tresses are puffed and heldback by a silver pin called a Rosenadel,from its head res
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