This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI THE PEASANT IN HIS SOCIAL RELATIONS CUSTOMS AT BIRTHS, CHRISTENINGS, WEDDINGS, DEATHS I "A Child is a blessing in a man's house," goes the saying, and woe to the woman who has none: she will feel extremely unhappy, and will have to consult babas and submit to their incantations, and drink ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI THE PEASANT IN HIS SOCIAL RELATIONS CUSTOMS AT BIRTHS, CHRISTENINGS, WEDDINGS, DEATHS I "A Child is a blessing in a man's house," goes the saying, and woe to the woman who has none: she will feel extremely unhappy, and will have to consult babas and submit to their incantations, and drink their herbinfusions, and leave no stone unturned to get into the blissful state of motherhood. Neither is one child the climax of happiness, for with one child the too fond parent has always an anxious heart whenever the slightest ailment appears; and if a parent were unfortunate enough to lose the one child, he will assure you that " one child is worse than none at all." The Roumanian peasant feels very comfortable with a houseful of children round him, and as a rule this is also the case; one hardly ever comes on a childless peasant's home. Unfortunately, though many children are born, it is no exaggeration to say, I am afraid, that no more than half of them are reared into men and women. The death-rate among small babies is great; in some parts, epidemics of diphtheria have almost become endemic; and if the sanitary arrangements are much beneath the mark for grown-up people, they are much more so for children. And if a Spartan breeding is by far preferable to the up-bringing of weaklings, on the other hand it is a great pity that so many children should be mowed down by preventable diseases. A woman who expects a baby has many rules to observe and much advice to follow, and must do this, and not do that, and so on, until baby has seen daylight. And she is never to look at ugly things or beings, as the child is then in danger of resembling them; and not to steal things--as though that inclination were inherent to her actual state--for the...
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Good. First edition. xii, 379 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth. Rubbing, sunning to spine. Front gutter weakened, first page almost detached. Faint foxing to margins.
