Show how dalmatian peasants live in the interior ot of dalmatia Dal matla the laborers still live in the old patriarchal fashion the eldest niale male rules the hou household sebold at might some czar in fact it la Is not so many years since he had life and death power over its inmates when a son weds he brings his wife to his fathers house that the property may remain emain in the family there while he works in the alrid id for they are peasant farmers working lands held by hereditary proprietors almost as might the serfs of russia she tends the dwelling when his guests come she sends out not only for him but tor for the patriarch since ho he alone can really welcome a visitor and he keeps the keys to the shet shelf where la is stored the gin in which a toast Is ot of acred to friendship |