Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-04-28
BEAUTY STANDARDS.
ODD IDEAS THAT ARE VERY DIFFER
EMIT FROM THOSE WE ENTERTAIN.


Where Faces Are tainted and Lips Are
Stained-In Some Countries Teeth Are
Taken out, in Others They Arc Filled
Each Quite the Thing at Home.
1t is curious to note the odd notions
Of beauty which prevail in different
nations.
In Fiji the native women paint their
faces with red and white stripes as
an ornament. The women of Green.
land cover their faces with blue and
yellow, while Arabian beauties stain
their lips blue and their fingers and
toes red.
The pearly teeth of the poet and
novelist would not be valued by some
of the eastern and Polynesian nations.
In Macassar the women paint their
teeth red and yellow, in such a way
that n red tooth follows a yellow one
and alternately. The teeth of the Ton.
quinse are rs black as art can make
them. The dycing occupies three OF
four days and is done to both boys and
girls when they are about twelve
years of age.
During the whole operation, they
never take any nCuriShment for fear
of being poisoned by the pigment if
they swallowed what required masti.
cation. Every person, high or low,
rich and poor, is obliged to undergo
this somewhat Objectionable operation,
as it is alleged that it would he a dis.
grace to human nature to have teeth
white like those of dogs or elephants.
In Japan fashion compels married
women to blacken their teeth. not,
however, as an ornament, but to make
them more ugly and save them from
temptation.
The Sunla ISLANDERS sometimes
blackcn all the teeth bu, two with
burned cocoanut, covering the two ex-
cepted teeth with thin plates of gold
or silver. The same tribe is in the
habit of employing their old women
to dress up the teeth of the youths
and maidens at wooing times. The
canine teeth ere fled to fine smooth
edge, and the body of the tooth made
concave. or they will notch the edge
of the teeth like a fine saw as an ad
| ditional means of beautifyir.
This multilation of the teeth is OBJ
served by many of the savage or un
civilized races in various par,s of the
world In the Malay Archipelago the
natives file th,ir teeth into points like
/ those of Il saw or pierce them Will
! holes, into which they insert studs
| Ine Macassar people sometimes pull
ont two front teeth in order to supply
their places with teeth of pure gold ol
SILVER. Some African tribes knock out
their front teeth on the ground thai
they do not wish to look like beasts
On the Uppor Nile four front tectl
are always knocked out, but fur
Their south only the two upper incisor'
are dispensed with.
In some parts Of the world the shap,
of the head is Of great Importance
Many American Indians admire heat
so extremely flattcned as to appear
to us idiotic. The natives of the north
west coast compress the head into
pointed cone. While the inhabitants o
Arakhan admire Il broad. smooth fore
head, and in order to produce it they
fasten a plate of lead on the heads o
the new born children.
In some countries the feminine head
gear is carried to singular cXtrava
gancc. The Chinese lady carries OF
her head the figure of Il bird which il
composed of copper and gold. accord
'"g to the quality of the owner. Til,
tllitNt NbllItli NtliA Oll lutlI utIl
II tlin board. about foot long and 81.
inches broad. With this they cove
their hair and seal it witt wax.
With the Tahitans to be called lion;
nose is considered an insult, and the.
compress the noses and forchcads o
their children for the sake of beauty
The same custom is prevalent anon;
the MalaYS and the natives of Brazil
III some parts of the world the nos
is pierced, rings, sticks feathers an,
other ornaments being inserted in tn
holes.
The ancient Egyptians and Assyria..
used paint to make their eyebrow
seem wider; the Arabians of tn
present day go step further in til
use of paint. The endeavor to prOduc
the impression that their eyebrow
grow down in the middle of the nos
and meet there. Persian women pain
a black line around their faces wit
a variety of figures. The Indians o
Paraguay eradicate their eyebrow
and eyelashcs saying that they uv no
wish to look like h)rses.
No W inder.
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