Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-07
PEOPLE OF OTHER LANDS.

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 ter how young and inexperienced, i.
 perfectly independent of her l,usbani in her property rights.
 THE Norwegians are said to be the longest lived people in the world. Off clal statistics show that the average duration of life in Norway is 4s.33 fo, the men, 51.30 for the women and 49.71 for both sexes. The duration of life has increased of late years.
 THE Portuguese give all their sover. elgns special titles, supposed to be in. dlcatlve of their dominant characteris. t1cs. Thus there havo been Don John the Restoref (of the Braganza line), Alfonso the Victorious, Pedro the Re- former, Mary the Pious, John the Clem. ent and Pedro the Unfortunate. The estlmable King who has just died will be known as Louis tho Good.
 SPANISH women do not like to invite a stranger to their houses. Most ot them smoke cigarettes while eating, and are jealous of any word of criti. clsm A Spanish household is a very different thing from an English or American one It is much moro frugal. They seldom give dinners, and eating IS with them matter of very small i'm portance compared with the place it holds among the Anglo-Saxons.
 AMONG the Yombas of West Africa, who take great care of their teeth and scrub them we'll at least three times a day, an old brush is regarded as a touching present, not being so much in- tended for actual use, indeed, but rather as conveying sort of implied message that, as the sender took the greatest care of his teeth and used his tooth brush continually, so his friend was also In his thoughts morning, noon and night.
 WHEN an Arab damsel gets married her mother gives her the following ad- vice for securing her future happine ss: You are leaving your nest to live with man with whose ways and habits you are unfamiliar. I advise you to be his slave if you wish to become the abso- lute mistress of your husband Be satisfied with little, endeavor to feed him well, and watch over his sleep, for hunger begets anger, and sleeplessness makes man cross grained.''
 WHEN young Greek determines to take wife to himself he does not go a. courting, but he takes his oldest female relative into his confidence and they at once go hunting for a suitable mate for him. Marriagable maidens are visited and silently appraised. They receive the old danes courteously, answer all their questions and never venture to ask tho nature of their errand. As soon as the visitors have made choice the wooer dispatches them again to the maiden's home with instructions to ask her hand in marriage.
 IN Persia boys and girls never play together. Even at home the inferiority of tho girls Is insisted on. The little girls have to invite playmates of their own; but their games are never lively ones. They generally prefer to sit by themselves under the shade of mulberry or pomegranate trees in the garden, which usually is laid out in the court yard surrounded on all sides by houses Or high walls, and listen to fairy takes, which their mothers and nurses can tell very Interestingly indeed. While there is very little companionship or love be- tween brothers and sisters, there is no quarreling and no fighting either be- tween thenn; and the boys, while think ing themselves above the girls, show them many little kindneSSeS