Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — RED SPOT MARKS MARRIAGE [ARTICLE]

RED SPOT MARKS MARRIAGE

East India Woman Wears Forehead Sign Instead of Wedding RingPuts It on Every Morning.

New York.—Mr. and Mrs. Christmases, natives of Raipur, in one of the central provinces of India, sailed on the White Star liner Celtle the other day for England. They will return home tie Sues, completing a circuit of the globe. Attention was attracted to the little East Indian woman by the presence on her forehead of a red spot She explained that this red spot marks the fact. that she is a wife. She puts it on every morning with a pencil of red crayon and will continue to do so while she is a wife. If her husband should die she would cease wearing the red spot Wedding rings are not worn in Raipur. The husband is a deputy commissioner of revenues for the British government in his native province.