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74 of girls as Bible women and marry such girls to their male converts.

The Census says that the women of the State have a keen commercial instinct, and show a marked aptitude for business of all sorts. In the cotton mills and ginning and pressing factories women have found a new employment, and it is not uncommon now to see father, mother, and children all working in the same cotton factory, while the baby sleeps in a basket among the cotton fluff. And in the coal mines, at Singareni, women are employed, going down the shaft with the men miners and taking the same risks. And such women are always decently dressed, in fact some of the female miners go down the shaft with all their jewelry on them, including bracelets and anklets that must greatly hamper their movements.