| Show iii I Brides Quicken Market i I ISan San Francisco Chronicle I A good example of at the distance at which obscure causes may operate in the modern world comes ou out t of current heavy shipments of gold from New York I to the fh Straits Settlements Theres There's no trade reson reason for this movement of oi gold It represents neither goods bought nor enter enterprise prise launched It Is simply Imply because this happens t to be the marriage peu season n on the Malay peninsula and Malay custom fits tits out the bride with a dower of ot sold gold old cons coins ISo i iSo So in order that Malay Maly weddings this year maybe maybe may maybe be done up right New York bankers bankers it it used to be London bankers have bankers have banker have to pack up boxes of ot gold goldcoin goldcoin coin cin and ship them off oft to Singapore And this year ear because crude rubber has been high Malay papas feel richer than usual hence more generous toward towar their cJ and so more than the ordinary amount of ot dower gold Is in demand The world is obviously moving along toward the stage where if i a crocodile bites a native in Central Centra Africa the inhabitants of Tulsa Okla will wi feel teel Itin It ItI in I n some way h b |