Another World

them--Mode of capturing, &c.--Impurities removed by insects--The
DEATH SOLACE


XVII.--INTERNAL CITIES--SUNSHINE PICTURES

Special precautions against excessive heat in the extreme
season--_Internal cities_ built in galleries--Their advantages--How
light admitted--Flowers--Beauty and odours increased by
electricity--Communication between the palaces in the External and
Internal World--Narrator's summer-palace--The pictures
representing principal events of his reign--Sun power
utilised--Sunshine: how _fixed_ on the canvas


XVIII.--THE PICTURES.

Subjects of some of the pictures in the Narrator's "Internal World"
Palace


XIX.--WOMAN.

Tendency of her education--Happy and contented--Marked difference
in education of the two sexes--Beauty aided by early care--Former
practices and consequences--Ravages of time--Women now lovely in
age as in youth--Beauty regarded as a precious gift from
Heaven--Cosmetics for its "preservation"--Wrinkles--Skin and
complexion--Hands and feet--CHOOSING BY HAND--How
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

John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.

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