Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . silk dress,and she still wears a dark, plain the religious ceremony the bride wearsthe conventional white silk or satin, andwhite veil, with a wreath of myrtle. Thewedding guests wear evening dress, and nohats. A familiar sight among the peasantry isto see the brautwagen, an open cart, in which GERMANY 701 the bride herself often sits among her furni-ture and wedding presents, going to thenew home. The Hochzcitsmahl, the feast and danceafter the wedding, is a great institutionamong the
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . silk dress,and she still wears a dark, plain the religious ceremony the bride wearsthe conventional white silk or satin, andwhite veil, with a wreath of myrtle. Thewedding guests wear evening dress, and nohats. A familiar sight among the peasantry isto see the brautwagen, an open cart, in which GERMANY 701 the bride herself often sits among her furni-ture and wedding presents, going to thenew home. The Hochzcitsmahl, the feast and danceafter the wedding, is a great institutionamong the peasantry. Dancing is in facta great feature of their every is also oneof their forms ofenjoyment, especi-ally among theyoung girls of thericher peasantry,who often rambleabout the fieldsand hills arm inarm, singing part-songs that theyhave learnt at thevillage school. Thepoorer peasants aretoo often silent. According toTacitus the Ger-mans esteemedsomething sacredand prophetic inwoman, followedher counsels, andexalted her as agoddess. But thestern evidence ofthe early laws. A TYPICAL GERMAN LAD1 Position ofthe GermanWoman. given her,capricious shows another side. Womanwas treated as a householdslave, bought and sold, andlet and lent. Her life wasas it has been said, by thegenerosity of her father, andwhen her husband died she was expectedto burn herself on his body as of no moreuse in the world. And this, with thesemi-refined moderations that necessarilycame with later civilisation, has been thetypical attitude of the Germans to has been the wise angel and goddessof the poem, the submissive hausfrau ofreal fife. German marriage, cried Heine, is no true marriage. The husband stillgoes on living his intellectually isolated life even in the midst of his family. Inthe higher and middle classes, of whichHeine was then speaking, this is changingwith the awakening of the women of thetwentieth century, and the growth of theirmoral and intellectual independe
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