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so unless they earn money outside to buy them with they go without. It is very common to see them with only a gee string on through this cold weather, most of the men manage to get shirts. THe women wear short skirts and a square piece of calico fastened about their necks for a cape. Though it is never very cold here still we do have ice on still water a quarter of an inch thick sometimes more and it does seem pitiful to see these poor people so thinly clad. There are about fifty children in school & they are all well dressed and fed. We teach them to do all work that is to be done about the agency school & the girls to sew, wash, iron etc. besides all are in school four hours each day. I have not been in Florence? & should have looked