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POLISH CINDERELLAS IN THEIR GAY FÊTE DAY GARB
| Though beset with the usual household duties of cooking, sweeping, and washing, into which they are initiated at a very early age, the peasant girls of the Chelm, or Holm, district are not lacking in the amenities of social life; and high days and holidays find them ready and eager for the merry-making, and full of conscious pride in their multifarious frills and flounces |
COUNTRY EXQUISITES RESPLENDENT IN FESTIVE FINERY
| These strapping peasant lads, in their gorgeous garb, are some of the merry-makers at a Polish wedding feast. Their coats are sumptuously embroidered with beautifully-worked designs, and coloured braid, buttons, and beads are lavishly displayed, and even the mountaineer's stick is decorated for the joyous occasion. A broad leather belt completes the showy costume |