76TH YEAR
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.
1. U.
S.
A~
WEDNESDAY
12ra
OCTOBER
1921
A DEBUT IN ASSAM.
~
To the American
zirl
her
debut
is the
introduction
into society.
To
the little°
suporessed
grown
up
maiden
of
Assam
it
1s
quite
the
contrary.
Her
days of
freed»n
are
over.
After
her
school
days
she
is seen
no
longer
on
the street
or
in
public,
but
demurely
spends
her
time
weaving
and
cooking
while
her
father
and
brothers
bargain
for
her
future
husband.
For
a
whole
week
be-
fore
her
debut
she
is
rigidly
dieted.
When
the
iime
arrives
for
her
‘‘going
in’’ party
she
18
escorted
to
the
fam-
ily’s by
the
invited
guests,
all
women.
and
chiidre.,,
and
given
a
cold
bath
In
the
cooier
feature
of
the
ceremony
requires
quite
a
heaithy
constitution.
Among
the
women
of
Assam
the
mar-
rigeabie
aze
is from ten
to twelve years.
The
girls
ati2ading
foreign
taught
schools
leave
when
they
reached
the
fourin
or fifth grade
to
retire
into the
seclusion
of
tae
zenana
to
await
her
disposal
1n marriage.
Ibid.
Many peoplesstart
out strong and
with
great
courage,
but
soon
loose
their
en-
thusiasm.
[he
real
test
of
the indivi-
dual is how the
task
is
finished, rather
than
how it is begun. —lbid.
Many
people
do
not
know
that
the
different
forms
of French
FParisian
ivory
and similar goods urnder
different names
are
made
from
cottcn;
nor
that
these
goods
are
higly
inflammable.
Be
very
careful
of
any
products
of
tanis
nature
which
smell
of
camphor.
Keep
them
away
from
heat
and
fire.
Beauti-
ful articles
are
made’
c¢i
this
material,—
piano
keys,
toilet
articles,
acd
so
on.
Useful articles
like
shoe
eyelets
are also
made
of it.—lbid.
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the
year
1790.
Benjamin Frankiin
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a
bequest
of
SI.OOO to the city of
Philadelphia.
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strangers.””
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years
before
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A traveler returning from abroad
states
|
that
England
is investing large sums of
|
moaey
in
ermauny
and other
war devas-
:
tated countries.
Uniess
America
is alive
|
to
the
situation” and
its
opportunities,
England
will control
the
industries
of
|
the
world.
‘
if
Germany
and
the
Central
Powers
|
are
eve.
to pay off their
war
debt,
they
.
mus¢
be given an opportunity
for
build-
|
ing up their
trade
once
more,
If they
|
are
kept
impoverished
and
bankrupt,
’
they
will
continue
to
be
a
menace
to
|
the peace of Surope,—lbid.
’
German
workmen
are
approaching
|
their tasks
with
more
earnestness
than
:
shose
in
the
countries
of
the
Allies.
The German
realizes
that he
was beaten
'
and
must
labor
long
and
assiduously
to
|
make
up what
he
has
lost.
Those
who
were successful
in the
war,
are
reason-
ing that they
can take it
easy
now.
Un-
less the
Allies
watch
out,
Germany
is
going
to
grow
tremendously
strong
in
twenty years,
while
those
who
are rak-
ing
it
easy.
will grow
soft
and weak.
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No.
238.
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AND WHY YOU
NEED IT, IN SO
MANY
INSTANCES WHEN YOU ARE RUN DOWN,
NERVOUS
OR
HAVE HAD TO ENDURE
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GREAT STRAIN OR WORRY OF ANYKIND.
A tonic is something
which puts
tone,
energy, strength
and endurance into you.
It gives
a push
to yowur heart,
making
it
pump
the
blood
over
yoar
body
more
vigorouslys it makes
your lungs
expand
more
fully and
thereby
take
wup
more
strength-giving
oxyger from the air you
breathe:
it makes
your kidneys
work
better
and
carry
off the poisons
which
would otherwise
accumulate
in the body;
it makes
your digestive
apparatus
perform
its
work better
and give
your blood
the
material
it needs
for feeding and susiaining your bouy: it
makes
your brain act more vigorously and
en-
ables you to think mere accurately and for long
periods
without
faiigue,
thus
bringing
you
greater
success
in whatever business,
profession
or undertaking you are engaged.
When
you are rundown.
nervous. hal{ si~k.
«iswn-hearted
and
ab
ut ready
to give
up.ex-
revience
of many
years
ha.
shown
that
one of
ilie best
remedies
to puil vou out es this
bad
predicament
is good
old organic
iron.
But
be
sure
the iron you take
is
¢
zaniciron,
the kind
that
is found
in plants
2nd
net
metallic
iren
which people usually
take.
Organic
iron may be
had
from
your druggist
tader
thie
name
of
luxated
Iron.
It often
increases
the stroneih,
cuergy
and
endurance
of weak
nervous,
tit d
out
folks in two-weeks
fime
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stitutes.
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tos word
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