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A RURAL VILLAGE IN ROUMANIA 



"Roumania contains 53,489 square miles, an area slightly greater than England and Wales 

 and only a little less than Massachusetts and New York combined. Within this territory 

 there were, according to the last census, 7,508,000 inhabitants, or 140 persons to the square 

 mile. This is a density of population slightly greater than that of Maryland" (see text, 

 page 365). 



ROUMANIAN CHILDREN 



A boy and a girl are not accounted grown up before their first dance. "She dances at 

 the dance" is the Roumanian way of saying that a girl is a child no more. At fifteen or 

 sixteen the Roumanian girls begin to heed the national proverb, "Wed young, eat early." 



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