. Court life from within . eme Tribunal is also a woman. The Norwe-gians refuse to tolerate cheap female labour; if awoman does the same work as a man she gets thesame pay. Society is equally just. It does not apply onestandard of morals to man and another to are judged by the same standard, and a girldoes not lose her position in society for conductwhich in other countries is blamed in a woman andcondoned in a man. Some Norwegian couples pre-fer to contract free unions instead of legal marriages,and now that the influence of Lutheranism on thelife of the country is practically dead
. Court life from within . eme Tribunal is also a woman. The Norwe-gians refuse to tolerate cheap female labour; if awoman does the same work as a man she gets thesame pay. Society is equally just. It does not apply onestandard of morals to man and another to are judged by the same standard, and a girldoes not lose her position in society for conductwhich in other countries is blamed in a woman andcondoned in a man. Some Norwegian couples pre-fer to contract free unions instead of legal marriages,and now that the influence of Lutheranism on thelife of the country is practically dead, society doesnot look at such unions askance. Married and un-married couples live in peace and associate a country where everybody works there is littletime or opportunity for the development of crimespassioncls, so if a couple find that they have madea mistake and that life in common is too difficult,they just part without quarrelling and build up theirlives anew. The happy relations existing between the men198. King Haakox of Norway THE SCANDINAVIAN DEMOCRACIES and women of Norway are, I am convinced, largelydue to the fact that they are educated together atschool and in the university. The equality of maleand female students at the university seems to besymbolised by the wearing of identical caps of thesame gay colours. From childhood they grow uptogether and become good comrades, understandingeach other thoroughly and without arriere pensce^having the same moral code and the same views oflife. In most countries boys and girls are segre-gated apart and only allowed to meet under thesupervision of their elders. The system is not agood one. Indeed, I have often thought that noth-ing gives a girls brain such a wrong twist as thefalse view given her at school about the companion-ship of men. Why perpetually dread man and seein him only the seducer*? By doing so I believe wevery often wake up in him instincts that might other-wise lie dormant. The education the girls a
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