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lighter hurnor was another excerpt from the matrimonial 

 column of the local newspaper: 



Wanted — A suitable match for a Bunjahi Khatri girl aged 16 

 years. She knows Gurmukhi, Hindi, Bhasha, Urdu and some- 

 what English and well versed in household affairs, and in fact 

 perfect in every respect. Only those having European qualifi- 

 cations of Khatri caste and also widower can apply stating 

 ages of children. 



April 6, 1915, she reported further on the criminal state of 

 the nation: 



I don't know if I wrote that we were invited to attend a prize 

 giving over on the camping ground. Over Rs 4000/ of Gov't 

 money was given away in prizes to men who helped in the 

 capture of some Sikhs who shot a constable &c. One got 

 Rs 250/ because he caught ... a murderer. That man & 

 another were hung in our jail grounds. They gave 5 men 

 Rs 250/ prizes and one old woman & a little child got about 

 Rs 5 0/ & so on, altho this woman's child was so wounded by 

 shot that it died. 



WHERRY returned to his new laboratory in Cincinnati 

 by middle summer to engage the Entamoeba buccalis. 

 It was an item of public discussion because C C Bass (thirty- 

 nine, self-declared Mississippi "piney," who had made Tulane 

 authority in the protozoal infections of man) had discovered 

 it a constant find in the dirty mouths of pyorrheally affected 

 individuals and had attributed to it active participation in the 

 disease. Hitherto it had been considered only a "saprophyte" 

 living happily in the muck. Because of Bass's work the treat- 

 ment of pyorrhea, both locally and systemically, became 

 that of amoebic dysentery; and ipecac, emetine and quinine 

 were administered. 



This mouth amoeba had never been cultivated in the lab- 

 oratory even though direct smears indicated that plenty of 

 the animals were present. Wherry wrote [51]: "It has appar- 

 ently been conceded that the Entamoeba are so parasitic as to 

 be non-cultivatable. This is probably not true of any parasite. 

 When we fail to cultivate an organism it simply means that 



