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HOW THE SPANISH MILKMAID GUARANTEES HER CUSTOMERS AGAINST A PUMP- 

 DILUTED PRODUCT 



The scene is a street corner in the residence section of the famous city of Valencia. In 

 the veins of the inhabitants flows the blood of many races which have occupied this region — 

 Iberians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Visi-Goths, and Moors. The Moorish influence 

 has been particularly tenacious, both in the features and in the dialect of the people as well 

 as in the architecture of the city. The first printing press in Spain is said to have been set 

 up here in 1474. 



due to the complexity of their origin and to 

 the unique situation of the country they in- 

 habit. They are the product, through cen- 

 turies of development, of the basic element, 

 the Celt, early permeated by the civilization of 

 the Greco-Latin and later supplemented by the 

 Teuton. To no other European people have 

 three great races so contributed their best. 

 These contributions are not merely united, but 

 ingrained in the Frenchman's fiber. 



France is a territorial belt connecting central 

 and southwestern Europe. Situated between 

 the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, its rivers 

 flow into both. Hence it becomes the natural 

 thoroughfare of commerce and ideas. No 

 great idea has taken possession of the world 

 without either originating in or passing through 

 France. Ideas born elsewhere have been car- 

 ried in France to their fullest development. 



All Frenchmen do not speak French. At the 



