SOCIETY MANNERS IN ROME DURING LAST CENTURY.
In society youths and maidens were stiff and uneasy. The men played and sang and danced and managed to enjoy themselves; but women, and above all young girls, were forbidden to do any of the three. Young ladies were never permitted to attend the theatre, and the female parts in the plays were usually taken by men dressed in women's clothes. Conversation proper there was none, and the little talking there was was carried on in whirpers, and was frivolous in the extreme; philosophy, politics and religion being forbidden subjects, and possible spies suspected of lurking in every corner. The sword was the only weapon of a gentlemon ; all others being left to cut-throats- The only honourable dress was that of a priest, and military duty was the portion of disinherited sons and wild young reprobates.—Rome: its Princes, Priests, and People.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1502, 24 October 1885, Page 4
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