Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — Rely on Home Industry. [ARTICLE]

Rely on Home Industry.

There are no native Industries in the Belgian Kongo. In every community there is the village blacksmith, who can fashion knives and spears of a certain quality and there are also village experts (always women) in weaving, pottery making and kindred occupations