The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-05-12


and Full knowledge of Theh
Charms.
Coming from the restraints and con-
ventionalities of civilization, CORE
spondent at Suva, Fiji, writes to the
New York Times, one almost envies the
freedom and naturalness of life which
prevail in FIJI. The Fijian women are
distinguished for their chastity and de-
votion to their families. Many of them
are exceedingly pretty, and although,
like the women of most races which
live in warm climates and upon a nearly
exclusive vegetable diet, they incline to
corpulency as they approach middle
life, they arc in youth very graceful and
symmetrical, and by their lively and
cheerful manners make a most agree
able impression upon the visitor. The
young girls are full of fun, and the best
looking among them are as finished CO.
quettes as are produced in Paris, Lon
don or New York.
e needs no education to make
woman understand that she is attract
i've above her fellows, so here in Fiji [
have seen many young ladies who
showed as many airs in garb consist
ing simply of a belt with thick fringe
of dyed cocoanut-fibe falling half way
to her knees as o white belle would
parade in one of Worth's latest ball
dresses. One of these, attended by an
ancient duenna, came aboard the steam
er the other day at Leonl1a. 1t was
Sunday, and to keep abreast of the male
population, who were peculiar and stiff
in the white shirts which the mission
aries have induced them to assume on
the first day of the week, she had put
over her petticoat Of native cloth a
loose, sleeveless che1nise of thin blue
cotton Her hair, black as crows
wing and in enormous lustrous masses,
was coiled upon the top of her shapely
head and adorned with flower of the
hibiscus. Heryshapely brown feet and
legs were bare, as also We're her mag
efficiently nodded arms; her hands were
small and taper and well cared for; She
was scrupulously clean, and her shout
ders glistcned like golden bronze under
a delicate application of eocoanrt oil. |
DER face was charmingly piquant, her
eyes dark and gloomy, and her teeth,
perfectly regular and dazzling white, |
would have been raved about by poets
II they had appeared in the mouth of a
Caucasian beauty. She carries para
sol, for these brown-skinned FIJI maids
are as 'solicitcus for their compilations
as If they were a compound ofroses and
cream, and her gait would have been
the despair OF any woman who included
corsets and French heels among her out
ut.
Everybody on the ship rushed to the
side to look at her and certain of the
young men among the passengers, cor
tially addressing her as Mary and
Susan, invited her to come aboard.
She seemed as unconscious OF the admit
alton her charms had excited as if she
were a statue OF the coolest marble,
out nevertheless was seen to take it all
n from the corner OF her eye and to
continue the cause of it by animated '
conversation with her duenna, by turn {
ng about so that she might be seen {
rom ron all sides, and by certain skittish I
,ctions toward the frizzle-headed beaus
Who .; addressed ssS her as she passed them
u the dock. Finally she leisurely b
scended the ,an, mimi and so,,,,+,,.l,J Il
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alf wifi croft d;rnit, - $500 II
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