WHERE WOMEN'S DREN SIMPLE.
The Avomen of Ceylon dc the knee to Dame Fashion content with the SarongH strip of cotton Avound roi body—which is all most of men of Kandy wear. Tb Ava sail that the majority o asked! in the days when Ki* ed the background for thep of an oriental court. & the last stronghold of thel rulers. Portuguese and D* in vain to subdue the city little mountain kingdom; I way to Kandy was throusj passes, surrounded by juw lives were lost in vain For tAventy years after the took Ceylon, the last King successfully resisted invasio ally, in 1815, he was cap! sent into exile. The te® palaces and royal tombs 1 speak of the old days o' show. But they are silent ing the intrigue and treat cruelty and extortion that the last years of SinghaleM Ceylon. Those dark W gotten now. Life runs under Avise Government.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8513, 5 August 1921, Page 8 (Supplement)
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152WHERE WOMEN'S DREN SIMPLE. Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8513, 5 August 1921, Page 8 (Supplement)
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