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XXII. Hindu Farming and Farm Life 218
Primitive Tools Used by Farmers

What Crops Are Grown

Where Drought Means Death

Reducing the Ravages of Famine

Usury and a Remedy

Where America Is Behind

Landowner and Farm Laborer

Salaam, O Little Folk!

XXIII.	The Caste System in India	226
	No Man May Rise Higher, but May Fall Lower
	How Fatalism Sustains Caste
	Contamination by Touch
	A Bone Collector's Pride of Rank
	The "Thief Caste"
	Caste and the Banyan Tree
	A Maharaja's Defence of Caste
	Some Forces That Are Battering Down the System
	Foreign Travel Weakening Caste.

XXIV	The Plight of the Hindu Woman	236
	"Woman Is Not to Be Trusted"
	Twelve-year-old Brides and Bridegrooms
	A Wedding Procession in Agra {xvi}
	5000 Rupees for a Wedding Feast
	The Plight of the Child-wives
	Cruel Treatment of Widows
	The Picture Not Wholly Dark
	One Worthy Tribute to the Grace of Woman.

XXV.	More Leaves from an India Notebook	246
	Some Historic Indian Cities
	India No More Homogeneous than Europe
	English Rule: An Interview with Mr. Krishnaswami Iyer
	Indian Wealth in a Few Hands
	16 Cents a Day an Incredibly High Wage
	No Horses on Indian Farms
	Bombay a Great Cotton Market
	The Story of a Man-eater
	A Snake Story to End With.

XXVI.	What the Orient May Teach Us	261
	Conservation the Keynote
	What Neglect of Her Forests Has Cost China
	Forestry Lessons from Japan and Korea
	Conserving Individual Wealth
	The Essential Immorality of Waste
	Avoiding the Wastes of War
	Preserving Our Physical Stamina and Racial Strength
	A Lesson from China
	Patriotism as a Moral Force
	The Coming "Conflict of Color"
	Oriental vs. Occidental Ideals.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Count Shige-Nobu Okuma of Japan	Frontispiece
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The Giant Avenue of Cryptomerias at Nikko	13
Typical Japanese Costumes and Temple Architecture	14
Japanese Farming Scenes	19
Japanese School Children	20
The Great Buddha (Diabutsu) at Kamakura	53
The Degenerate Koreans at Rest and at Work	54
Like Scenes from Our Western Prairies	81
Manchurian Women (showing peculiar head-dress)	82
Chinese Waste-paper Collector	82