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Show Marriage a la Mode Jn India most girls are betrothed in childhood. When ;- girl has reached reach-ed the age of 11 and her father has made no matrimonial provisions for 1 her sh" may take the Initiative and I cecureSa husband for herself, though , she may never marry anyone In the 1 .i.st.- below her own. The Indian brides dower is In jeW-' jeW-' . 1h Old families give one daughter emeralds, another pearls and another ! sapphires. " Usually a girls dower ! jew els are of one variety. |