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effected--CHOOSING BY FOOT--Expedients used when hand or foot
inclined to coarseness--GIRL'S DORMITORIES--Cleanliness--Separate
sleeping-rooms--Reasons--Communication with
night-watchers--Precautions--Mode adopted to ensure early rising--
Prayer not till after repast--Reason why old custom
changed--Careful discipline until marriage--Luxurious habits
permitted to married ladies--Instance of the elastic "frame"
cushion--The self-acting fan

XX.--CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.

Means taken to secure congenial husband--Marriage councils--Choice
of husband, how arranged--Maiden's right to nominate--The
thirty-one evenings--The girl, how distinguished--Gentlemen who
wish their pretensions to be favourably viewed--The
unwilling--Efforts of pretenders--Agitation on the thirty-first
evening--How the maiden proclaims her choice--The presentation of
flowers--Subsequent meeting of the parties--Betrothal--Consequence
of maiden failing to declare preference--Second meeting--Third
meeting rare

XXI.--THE DRESS OF SHAME--SUN COLOURS.

Trust reposed in marriage councils never abused--The dress of
shame--Rich costumes of married ladies--Brilliant colours imparted
by the sun--The silver-green silk--Sun silk--Women instructed in
the ART OF PLEASING--Former habits of married women--Example on
children--Deceit

XXII.--COSTUMES.

LADY'S COSTUME--The
waistcoat--Tunic--Trousers--Anklets--Trimmings--
Colours--Sandals--HEAD ORNAMENTS--Soles to protect the feet--The
fan--Precious stones--Turbans--Canopy--Long veils--Distinctive
feature for the unmarried--Elaborate costumes allowed after
marriage--GENTLEMAN'S COSTUME

XXIII.--PREPARATIONS FOR THE MARRIAGE.

The civil marriage--Purification of the bride--The hair--The
tree-comb--Marriage costume--Marriage ceremony repeated after
birth of each child--Religious ceremony--Suspended in case of
dissensions--Efforts for reconciliation--Contingencies provided
for--An instance

XXIV.--FLOWERS.

Very beautiful--Their names given to Stars and to Women--Flower
language: long conversations carried on by means of
Flowers--Instances of Flower Language--Displeasure expressed
through the medium of Flowers--Instances of Flowers with meanings
attached

XXV.--FLOWERS IMPROVED BY ELECTRICITY.

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