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tales are reheated
a
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tending  foreic
more s
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liurch here and looking at  t^ie( old hats and dresses
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nflue-nca   on  the Korea^n girls,
s^iool-lcon^, ir^oevery day witfc
a different dre
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take -i
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ne   rmns  aria   necoii^ces
displayed)  and  shiny  shoes are not ovemookea,   as j
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^ndl the. silk hose   (liber
u can well
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imagine  school  girls
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hey  go nome ana  peg
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p"rents for more dresses and finer dresses ana
their poor
foreienishoes and
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exj
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the -havoc tills works to %>fifteeLn,   twenty,   or
in rty.iciQila r a montn mcom
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It  simply  is   impossible
missionary is a
s\j
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to
w
umuia tlo.ri  o
ae
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t
So one
final
bankruptcy
d despair
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i^es  olu sh  for
w
ur
vv
^men
(who seem t,o have no
blush
of their owr
)
3   x X
ing up
on benches at the  sides ox
ae   o
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mure
n
swinging "their legs in full view ~of otll•«the
J w
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r Kor
orean women