The Pearl Trade and Its Allure for Wearers of Wealth
A long account on how pearls captivate wealthy women, noting their unrivaled natural beauty and resistance to artificial enhancement. It details pearl qualities from color to luster, prices of strings from India and the Pacific, and famous holdings, then shifts to the Pearl Fishery system in Ceylon and the dramatic emergence of pearl towns with divers, boats, and government auctions.
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India
China
Ceylon
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Woe of Hindoo Women Sparks Call for American Women Doctors
Dr Eleanor Stephenson a Brooklyn physician in India urges American women to aid in Ahmednagar where caste limits women treatment. She notes few local doctors and a mission hospital serving 16 000 people, with 41 patients daily, and cites grave cases from gangrene to obstetric surgery highlighting urgent need for women physicians in the Orient.
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Ahmednagar
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Miss Johnson
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Mission Hospital
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Educa- Gonal
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United States
Womer
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