MARRIAGE AMONG THE ITALIAN PEASANTRY.
When a girl of the lower class marries, she has to undergo another ceremony. She has to be dragged by force out of her maiden home. The struggle begins in her own little room, to which she must cling with all her strength crying and beseeching her friends (all married women) to leave her there, “that she cm never leave her home,” etc., etc. She clutches her bedpost in despair, and shrieks when she is torn from it, then she clutches the door, then the stab case, chairs, tables, everything, till she reaches the outer door, when her struggles compel her friends to carry her away by main force. If she does not do this, she is accused of being an immodest girl; the more she struggles the greater her virtue will be accounted. She must provide all the linen of the house, besides her own body' linen, and also a complete bed with bedding. She must also furnish the bridegroom’s shirts while he provides the furniture of the house and the bride’s dres> and jenllery,—Rome Corr. American Register.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1121, 3 January 1884, Page 3
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184MARRIAGE AMONG THE ITALIAN PEASANTRY. Temuka Leader, Issue 1121, 3 January 1884, Page 3
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