Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah — John Shaqi
Another World: Fragments from the Star City of MontalluyahLumley, Benjamin
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Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
Lumley, Benjamin
Utopias
Minute divisions of brain examined by microscope--Former
neglect--Early indications rarely noticed--Supposed lunatics often
wiser than their keepers--An instance--The man's statements laughed
at--World believe him a confirmed madman--Madness not now assumed
from seeming absurdities--Thoughts formerly scoffed at, now
acknowledged facts--Minute divisions of brain responding to trains
of thought--Effectual remedies for earliest symptoms--Cure of
developed madness--Former error which prevented cure--The disease
does not exist in the _overworked_ portion of the brain
XVI.--THE DEATH SOLACE--INSECTS.
Insects contain valuable electricities--Whole crops destroyed by
them--Mode of capturing, &c.--Impurities removed by insects--The
DEATH SOLACE
XVII.--INTERNAL CITIES--SUNSHINE PICTURES
Special precautions against excessive heat in the extreme
season--_Internal cities_ built in galleries--Their advantages--How
light admitted--Flowers--Beauty and odours increased by
electricity--Communication between the palaces in the External and
Internal World--Narrator's summer-palace--The pictures
representing principal events of his reign--Sun power
utilised--Sunshine: how _fixed_ on the canvas
XVIII.--THE PICTURES.
Subjects of some of the pictures in the Narrator's "Internal World"
Palace
XIX.--WOMAN.
Tendency of her education--Happy and contented--Marked difference
in education of the two sexes--Beauty aided by early care--Former
practices and consequences--Ravages of time--Women now lovely in
age as in youth--Beauty regarded as a precious gift from
Heaven--Cosmetics for its "preservation"--Wrinkles--Skin and
complexion--Hands and feet--CHOOSING BY HAND--How
effected--CHOOSING BY FOOT--Expedients used when hand or foot
inclined to coarseness--GIRL'S DORMITORIES--Cleanliness--Separate
sleeping-rooms--Reasons--Communication with
night-watchers--Precautions--Mode adopted to ensure early rising--
Prayer not till after repast--Reason why old custom
changed--Careful discipline until marriage--Luxurious habits
permitted to married ladies--Instance of the elastic "frame"
cushion--The self-acting fan
XX.--CHOICE OF A HUSBAND.
Means taken to secure congenial husband--Marriage councils--Choice
of husband, how arranged--Maiden's right to nominate--The
thirty-one evenings--The girl, how distinguished--Gentlemen who
wish their pretensions to be favourably viewed--The
unwilling--Efforts of pretenders--Agitation on the thirty-first
evening--How the maiden proclaims her choice--The presentation of
flowers--Subsequent meeting of the parties--Betrothal--Consequence
of maiden failing to declare preference--Second meeting--Third
meeting rare
XXI.--THE DRESS OF SHAME--SUN COLOURS.
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