Just found out that colonial lifestyle highly observed separation between two sexes. Real conservative, huh! How’s that? In the house, you’ll see the majestic stair as the focal point. It has a grand staircase leading to the upper floor wherein there's a stop for a quick rest or paseo, and then it was split into two stairways going up to the second floor. Each stairways was used accordingly by both sexes.
All the while, I thought it was a mere passageway protocol, an entrance/exit or up/down scheme just like the escalator in the mall. But, it’s not. The two sexes should go up and down in their own respective stairways. Forgot to ask if the women used the right or the left stairways. So, therefore, I conclude that the separation of male and female at the entrance of all malls in the city were patterned from this. Hahaha, just a pun!
It’s indeed a big house, but they had only one or two common comfort and bathrooms for the entire household of at least 15 persons. But, oh well, they were able to managed it.
