A Maker of Rainbows. The famous rainbow woollens of Poland are known all over Europe for their beauty of coloring and quality of texture. On Sundays the rural roads of Poland are bright with the gay costumes of the peasants, and they are seen even in the cities, on market days. It is on such simple machines as this that the rainbow wool is spun by the barefooted peasant women, whose industry and thrift are proverbial, and who, despite hardship and misery, never give up nor cease to believe in the rainbow of the future. It is because the war has worked some of its worst havoc in the large agricultural areas of Poland that the country is now undergoing such a strain of want and distress. The coming of the American Red Cross into these ruined country districts has been the only source of relief the people have known

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A Maker of Rainbows. The famous rainbow woollens of Poland are known all over Europe for their beauty of coloring and quality of texture. On Sundays the rural roads of Poland are bright with the gay costumes of the peasants, and they are seen even in the cities, on market days. It is on such simple machines as this that the rainbow wool is spun by the barefooted peasant women, whose industry and thrift are proverbial, and who, despite hardship and misery, never give up nor cease to believe in the rainbow of the future. It is because the war has worked some of its worst havoc in the large agricultural areas of Poland that the country is now undergoing such a strain of want and distress. The coming of the American Red Cross into these ruined country districts has been the only source of relief the people have known

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A Maker of Rainbows. The famous rainbow woollens of Poland are known all over Europe for their beauty of coloring and quality of texture. On Sundays the rural roads of Poland are bright with the gay costumes of the peasants, and they are seen even in the cities, on market days. It is on such simple machines as this that the rainbow wool is spun by the barefooted peasant women, whose industry and thrift are proverbial, and who, despite hardship and misery, never give up nor cease to believe in the rainbow of the future. It is because the war has worked some of its worst havoc in the large agricultural areas of Poland that the country is now undergoing such a strain of want and distress. The coming of the American Red Cross into these ruined country districts has been the only source of relief the people have known

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