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Rh cars, oftener then by their eyes; and scarce speak with one another, till they meet before the Parish Priest, to speak the indissolvable words of wedlock. They make children to go bareheaded, till they be four or five years old, hardning them thus against rheums and catarrhes when they shall be old. Hence few people in Italy goe so warm on their heads, as they do in France; men in their houses wearing nothing upon their heads but a little calotte; and Women for the most part, going all bareheaded in the midst of Winter it self. Women here also wash their heads weekly in a wash made for the nonce, and dry them again in the Sun, to make their hair yellow, a colour much in vogue here among Ladyes. The men throw of their hats, cuffs, and bands, as well as their cloaks, at their return home from visits, or business, and put on a gray coat, without which they cannot dine, or sup;, and I have been ivited to dinner by an Italian, who before dinner, made his men tak off our hats and Cloaks,