Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24

until the hole becomes as large around as a
mans thumb. Tnen plug of gold, silver
or glass is put into the ear, and is worn
there from this time on as an ornament.
These plugs are sometimes studded with
diamonds, and in the cases of wealthy girls
they are very costly. Among the poorer
Burmese women the holes are tnlarged
inside of them. The Burmese cigar
as the ordinary Havana, and the Bur-
around in their ears. In some cases the
ears are pulled out so that they will hang
almost to the shoulders, and have seen
photographs of such ears which contained
holes large enough for me to put my fist
through.
As to the nose ring the Indian women
have all sorts of them, and you will tnd
that about half the women in the world or
nament their noses. There are all sorts OF
nose rings here in the National Museum.
The women of Foochow, China, wear a thin
ring of silver as big around as the bottom Of
q tin cup in their noses, and In eating they
put the food through the ring into their
mouths. The little screw earrings which we
are now using come from the far East, and
you will find thousands of them in India.
The Indian girls punch holes all along the
edge of the ear from the lobe up to the top,
and they screw these earrings into them.
They also screw rings into the roots of their
noses, and the blacker the skin the more
anxious the women seem to be to ornament
it.
BELLS ON THEIR TOES.
Not few of the women of the world
ornament their feet and in India oirls often
wear bells on their toes. 1 have seen
hundreds of them tramping along in their
bare feet and making in reality, in the
words OF the old nursery rhyme, Emusic" as
they went along. These bells are of silver,
gold or white metal, according to the wealth
Of the maiden. They are good deal like
sleigh bells, aud are fastened to the TOP OF
ring, like finger ring, that goes around
the toe. In some cases a woman will have
five OF these bells on each foot, and in others
only the rings are used and no bells.
About three-fourths OF the women of the
world 60 barefooted, and some OF the pref
tiest feet that you find anywhere are those
of India and the far East The Chinese
woman would naturally have a pretty loot
were it not for the custom OF COMPRISING it
to make it smaller than it is. The Chinese
are beautifully formed. They have small
bones, and are the aristocrats of the world.
The Manchu women OF North China do not
compress the feet, and their limbs are as
beautiful as those of the Venus of the Capt.
tol. The Empress of China wears a No. 2
shoe, and no woman with a compressed foot
is allowed in the royal palace, and there are
at least 100000 wives and maidens in
China who have compressed feet
DANCING ON DOLLAR.
There is a woman at Canton, China, who
can stand and spin around on a trade dollar
without letting her shoe come outside the
rim. Her loot is one of the Kind that the
Chinese 90 into raptures over under the
oame of the golden lily. 1t is horrible
thing, however, when it is outside Of the
shoe. You fud that the maiden has merely
been standing on her toe and that her foot
has been squeezed out of all sign of beauty.
This squeezing commences at the time the
girl is years old and often when she is
younger. The toes are tied under the loot
the heel is squeezed down toward the toes