The dusky ladies on the Upper Amazon have solved the question of being fashionable ill spite of the high cost of living. The usual attire of the women in tropical Putumayo is confined principally to bead neeklnces, Jmt they have developed a high artistic sense, and have taken to painting gowns on their bodies in imitation of those worn by the fashionable folk oE Brazil. It is said that they got the idea from the coloured pictures in magazines.
For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 11
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87Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 11
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