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PATTERING ALONG ON THE WAY TO SUNDAY-SCHOOL |
SURVIVAL OF ANCIENT LATVIAN REGALIA |
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| Every child in Holland begins its school life at seven years of age, when it enters one of the state primary schools. Instruction in these is strictly secular, but the children's religious education is provided for in Sunday-schools and in private schools maintained in various denominational interests, but state-aided and state-supervised | The imposing coronet-shaped headdress and richly-embossed breast buckles figured conspicuously in the full traditional attire of the Letts, and this handsome costume may still be seen in the village of Virga on special festive occasions |