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WELL-EARNED REFRESHMENT AFTER ARDUOUS TOIL
In prehistoric days their ancestors were a warlike people, but, as time passed, the soothing influences of the land tamed their belligerent natures and made of the Letts a peace-loving, agricultural race. Bronzed and weather-stained, true children of the soil, no field labour is too irksome for them, and they share in the common task with the same healthy vigour that they share in the common meal
IN THE LAND WHERE HONEY SPELLS MONEY
He is following in the traditional calling of his forefathers, whose successful methods of bee-keeping were such as to permit them to depend on their bees for their livelihood, and many of the compulsory contributions levied upon their persons and properties were paid off in honey. There are many thousands of apiaries in Latvia, where bee-keeping is still a prosperous branch of rural industry
Photos, Press Section, Latvian Foreign Office, Riga
