The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-25
Funny fdrAs or Beauty.

| II Is curious TO note the o Id notiOuS
Of beauty which prevail in different
nations
la Fiji the native women paint their
faces with red aud white stripes as an
urnulucnt. The women of Greenland
cover their faces with blue and yellow,
while Arabian beauties STAN their
| lip- blue and their tingcr, aud toe, red.
The icarIy teeth of the poet aud
novelist would not be valued by some
OF the eastern aud PoIyncsian natlon>.
In Macassar the wOmcu paIut their
teeth rcd aud yellow, in such way
that red tooth follows yellow one
aud alternately. The teeth If e
TonIulnsc are as black as art eau
make them. The dycing occupies
three or four days aud is doue TO both
boys aud glrls when they are about
twelve years of age.
During the whole operation, says
lid BITS, they never take auy uour-
ishlncnt for fear Of being poisoned by
the pigment if they swallowed what
required rastication. Every perrou,
high or low, rich aud poor, is obliged
to undergo this somewhat objectioua-
bl" op. ration, as it is alleged that it
would DC disgrace to human nature
to have teeth white like those Of dogs
or elephants.
la japan fashion compels married
women tU blacken their teeth, not,
however, as au Oruamcnt, but TO make
them murc ugly and save them from
temptation.
The Sunda islanders sometimes
blacken all the teeth but Two with
burned cocOanut, covering the two ex-
ccptcd 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 csuiue
teeth are filed to tine, smooth edge,
and the body Of the tooth made con-
cave, or they will notch the edge of
the teeth like fine saw as au add
tional meaus of beuutif, ing.
This mutilation uf the teeth is OBJ
served by tnauy Of the savage or un-
civilized races in various parts of the
world. la the Malay Archipelago
the natives file their teeth into puiuts
like those uf saw or pierce them
with holes. into which they inscrt
studs. The Macassar people some
times pull out two trout teeth in order
t" supply their place with teeth Of
pure gold or silver. Some African
t,ines kuock out their teeth, GU the
ground that they do not wish to louk
like beasts. On the Upper Nile four
trout teeth are always knocked out,
but further south only the two upper
inc,sors are dispensed with.
La soule parts uf the world the shape
Of the head is Of great Importance.
Many American Indians admire head
so extremely flatteued as to appear to
US idlotic. The natives of the north
west coast compress the head into
p .iuted cUne, while the inhabitants of
Arakhau admire broad, smooth fore
head, and in order to produce it they
fasten plate Of lead ON the heads IF
the new born children.
In some countries the feminine
headgear is carried to singular cx,rav-
agance. The Chinese lady carries on
her head the figure Of bird, which is
c'mp"scd Of copper or gold, according
TO the quality of the owner. The
Myautsc women carry on their heads
thin board, about u fnot long and six
inches broad. With this they cover
their hair and seal it with wax.
With the Tahitans to be called
""ng nose is considered an insult,
I'd they compress the noses and fore.
heads Of their children fur the sake of
beauty. The same custom is preva-
lent among the Malays and the natives
of Brazil. In some parts of the world
the. nose is pierced, rings, sticks.
feathers and other ornaments being
inserted in the holes
The ancient Egyptians and Ass.
rians used paint to make their eye
brows seem wider; the Arabians of
the present day go step further in
the use of paint. They endeavor 10
produce the impression that their eye-
brows grow down to the middle of the
nose and meet there. Persian women
paint u black line around their faces
With variety Of 6gnres. The In
dians of Paraguay eradicate their eye
bro"s aud eyelashrs saying that they
d" M, wish t" look like horses.
la China and iphbnring countries