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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.
Mode in which nature operates--Vitality of seed--Consequence of injury--Production of
leaves--Of colour--United electricities form gatherings--Important discovery--Sap, the
reservoir of electricity--PROCESS FOR CHANGING FORM--PROCESS FOR
CHANGING COLOUR--For giving fragrance--THE LUANIA--SUN-FORCING
XXVI.--SONG OF ADMIRATION.
(_Explanation of terms used in the Song of Admiration._)
The Spangled Mountain--The reviled beauty--Slander and its promulgators--The Legend
of Zacosta--Fall of her Tormentors--Happiness of the higher order of Spirits--Slander
regarded with horror--Motives of the Slanderers--The King of the Air--The loving little
animal--The ingenious instrument for discovering diamonds--The pet animal--The
Meleeta--The Turvee Insect--Shooting Stars--Whale Electricity--The Martolooti--The
Flower of Grace--The Chilarti--The Allmanyuka--The perfume of the everlasting
gulf--The Hippopotamus hide--Fat of the Serpent's head--The Mestua Mountain--Wet thy
feet--Stainers' fount-- Water--The Mountain Supporter
XXVII.--SYLIFA.

XXVIII.--THE YOUNG GIRL RESTORED.
Madness not formerly recognised until violence shown--The GIRL AFFECTED WITH
MONOMANIA.
XXIX.--THE LITTLE GOATHERD.
XXX.--DECORATIONS FOR AGE AND MERIT.
Worn as distinctive marks--Age entitles woman to privileges--Age regarded as an
honour--Orders of the Matterode, and Mountain Supporter--Qualified decoration,
&c.--ADVOCATES of the individual and of society--Privilege belonging to every
woman
XXXI.--BEAUTY.
How ideal of beauty formerly obtained--Not equal to the actual living model--Beauty
now the rule--Longevity--Beauty in old age--Summary of expedients--Value of the
course adopted--Importance of care from earliest infancy--Subject of babies--Importance
of little things--Maladies owing to injudicious treatment of children--March of "small"
effects--Precautions now taken
XXXII.--INFANTS' EXERCISE-MACHINES.
Value of minute precautions--Diseases caused by want of healthy exercises--Accidents to
the infant--Blows on the head--The inventions of Drahna--The four sets of
machines--The TEETH--The eye--The nostrils--The tongue--Air, &c.
XXXIII.--GYMNASTICS.
An essential part of the boys' education--Formerly same exercises for all--Now adapted
to physical organization--Medical man observes effects--The heat of the brain a
test--Bathing--Leaping--TREE-EARTH BATHS--Qualities of the earth about various
trees--The oak, the weeping-willow, elm, horse-chestnut, &c.
XXXIV.--THE AMUSEMENT GALLERY.
Description--Girls' amusement gallery--Boys--Different natures and characters
revealed--The Character-divers
XXXV.--PRAYER.
For Children are short--Services adapted to different ages--Evils attendant on former
system--Present course--Subjects of Sermons-- Children encouraged in affection to
Parents, &c.--Preacher assisted by method of education--Objections to Parrot-like
repetitions
XXXVI.--FLOCKS AND HERDS.

Care taken of animals--Change of pasture--Irrigation--Causes of diseases formerly
prevalent--Shade--Illness--Great increase of flocks and herds--THE MALE ONLY USED
FOR FOOD--Consequences of killing the mother--In slaughtering, all painful process
avoided--Mode adopted--Wholesomeness of meat tested by analyzation of
blood--PROTECTION OF MEAT FROM INSECTS--Protective Infusion--CRUELTY
TO ANIMALS--Punishment
XXXVII.--THE ALLMANYUKA.
Determination to discover the germ of disease--The people afflicted with a painful
malady--Children not attacked--Hypothesis--Stimulating spices--Anatomical
examination--Decree forbidding use of favourite condiments--The spices
collected--Temporary substitute provided--Meditation and prayer for help--The grafting
and the eventual result-- Incomplete--The cream-lemon vegetable--Mode of
proceeding--The "Insertion"--The root-oil--The little white bud--The anxious
watching--The basket and its contents--The testing--Qualities of the Allmanyuka--The
people's praise--The Tootmanyoso's gratitude--Results different from any before
obtained--Description
XXXVIII.--PAPER.
Made from leaves of trees--Peculiarities--Process of manufacture-- Healthful
fragrance--Colour--"Natural" paper--GOLDEN COLOURED PAPER--Its connection
with the Allmanyuka--The incident which led to its discovery
XXXIX.--CONSUMPTION--THE ÉMEUTE.
Consumption--Why generally beyond cure--Erroneous views--The patient--Examination
by the doctors--Their mistake--Narrator's belief--Potion administered--Death--Cause
discovered--Mode of detecting and curing the disease in its germ--Assemblage of the
multitude--Episode of the mother and the child--The sequel
XL.--THE HARP.
The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of chords--Strings of
electricity--Marvellous variation and depression of the notes--Echoes and
responses--Diapason changed to an extraordinary extent--Different characters of sound
produced--Examples--Harp language; how taught--Accompaniments--Harp beautiful as a
work of sculptural art--Movement of birds, flowers, and foliage, and exhalation of
perfume in accord with the music--How idea was suggested
XLI.--SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Amusements enjoined--Learned men prone to seclusion--Wisdom of requiring studious
men to cultivate social relations questioned--Twenty men selected for the
experiment--Result--The works of the "Seclusionists" and of the
"Society-Sympathisers"--The MONOMANIAC--His eccentricities and cure--Convert to
the Narrator's views

XLII.--THEATRES--ENTERTAINMENTS.
Arenas--Electricity--Why arenas open to the sky--Games exhibited-- Beautiful effects
produced--MAN and HORSE--The FLYING CHILDREN--WILL--DEAF AND DUMB
CHILD--The MONKEYS--Tragic Drama--Races and public games--Parties for
children--Labouring people--The aged--Districts--The middle-aged--INTRODUCTION
of strangers--Ceremony observed--ATTRACTING-MACHINE
XLIII--SHIPS.
Peculiar form and construction--Former shape--Effective model sought--"Swan
Ships"--Dangers of navigation--Ship sometimes submerged--Sufferings of the passengers
for want of air--Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled by
electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the vessel--TIMBER FOR
SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against insects in every part--The
COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its formation: how let out and hauled in--The
Bison ropes
XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.
Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a distance--Picture made
of a landscape and persons