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Show Where Girls Are Scarce There are two large American companies com-panies doing business on the lslund of Spanish Honduras and the American Amer-ican colory Is .about 600 or 700 strong, but they are nearly all men-. The proportion pro-portion of women Is about one to fifteen and this Is a very favorable one to the unmarried girl. Women who may be almost devoid of any physical, or other charms are enabled to pose as minor belles in that place. The native girls give a certain amount of nttention to the American gentlemen gentle-men and, by adopting the ways nnd wiles of the American flapper, they nre said to fill the bill. Many of tile American men murry the native girls. |