 | Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons - 1914 - 278 páginas
...in the houses of others, the parents in their turn taking into their service the children of others. "And on inquiring their reason for this severity,...children might learn better manners. But I for my part," adds their critic, "believe that they do it because they like to enjoy all their comforts themselves,... | |
 | John Milton Berdan - 1920 - 610 páginas
...\ of,strangersmia-hi4•own. And on inquiring their reuSonTorthis severity, they ( /A answCTecTthat they did it in order that their children might learn...that they do it because they like to enjoy all their com- v forts themselves, and that they are better served by strangers than they would be by their own... | |
 | H. S. Bennett - 1922 - 330 páginas
...whilst he, in return, receives those of strangers into his own. And on enquiring the reason for the severity, they answered that they did it in order that their children might learn better manners.* When we recall the severe training most houses provided, and the importance attached to obedience and... | |
 | Mary L. Mackenzie - 1923 - 134 páginas
...houses of others, whilst he, in return, receives those of strangers into his own. And on enquiring their reason for this severity, they answered that...order that their children might learn better manners*. As Mr Bennett points out, however, the training provided in their own homes was in most cases quite... | |
 | H. S. Bennett - 1990 - 310 páginas
...whilst he, in return, receives those of strangers into his own. And on enquiring the reason for the severity, they answered that they did it in order that their children might learn better manners.« When we recall the severe training most houses provided, and the importance attached to obedience and... | |
 | Beatrice Gottlieb - 1994 - 350 páginas
...females, to hard service in the houses of other people, binding them generally for another seven or nine years. And these are called apprentices, and during...served by strangers than they would be by their own children.7 These hardhearted English (and the French, too) were not entirely in love with the system,... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - 1998 - 420 páginas
...reason for this severity, thev answered that they did it in order that theic children might learn beuer manners. But I, for my part, believe that they do it because thev like theic comforts and they are better served by strangers than they would be by their own childeen.... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Bombay - 1921 - 1116 páginas
...those of strangers into his own. And on enquiring the reason 1 Ibid. p. 60. 3 /6id. p. 109. for the severity, they answered that they did it in order that their children might learn better manners."1 Similar was the case in India, especially in the case of girls, in many a Parsee household,... | |
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And these are called apprentices, and during that time they perform all the most menial offices ; and few are born who are exempted from this fate, for every one, however rich he may be, sends away his children into the houses of others, whilst he, in... 