The Washington times., 1902-02-02

tlluily carved handles, laShloned INTO
conventional birds heads and often fur
ther decorated with silver, gold, and ivory
bands, and heavy wire windings of pre-
cious metals. On their heads they wear
gaudy- colored handkerchiefs, wound into
turbans.
Bloomers in Fashion.
The women are clothed in baggy bloom
ers and cloth waist open at the throat.
Most OF them carry the "sarong," or end
less band of cloth, t,.o feet wide and ten
feet long. which admits of being thrown
into many folds around the waist, bust
and head. There is small effort made to
conceal the face, though at times a wom-
an will pull the surplus cloth OF her
sarong over her head as she passes you
In the native villages the old women are
often nude TO the waist, hideous in their
shriveled senilty, and the little children
run stark naked, or perhaps the bright
Dlack-eyed girl of eight firts her older
sisters sarong into figure eight over
her rounded shoulders and limbs as she
runs to some convenient hiding place
away from the white man.
Before the houses in the town on mar
ket day are piled high the products of the
country. Spread out in one place, in fiat
wicker trays on the ground. where every
bare foot padding in nearby mud
puddle splashes dirt upon them, are sun
dried fiat fish, split down the back and
laid open in twin forms like the boys ink
blot in a creased piece of paper. Here is
trife more refined effort, for an old hag
with bl1ckened teeth presides behind
huge plies of native fruits, raised above
the muck OF the streets on
rickety bamboo door; bananas. plantains.
lasones. sugar apples fine mangosteens,
foul smelling Jack fruit. and inferior
mangOes with taste of turpentine form
her stock in trade. bit further are two
short, pleasant, round faced girls, with
very dirty clothes. who are selling veget-
ables-that is they do when Americans
are not looking at them; just now they
are trying to hide their faces and squrm-
ing around on their heels to get their
backs toward us. They have in their
splint baskets variety OF egg plant call
ed bungal. two kinds Of yams or sweet
potatoes, radishes which are boiled be
fore eaten, and some bad looking tapioca.
Toilets Of BIackened Teeth.
Another woman who Is not afraid to be
looked ht sits patting a great ball of
tea -colored damp leaves. and now aud
then she pulls off half dozen of them
for some staggering man. who ostenta.
tiously drops two copper pieces into her
outstretched hand. They are said to be
the leaf with which they renew their
whose indelible dyeing property is due
to a cooking in iron oxide made by
thrusting red hot irons into fresh cocoa
nut milk
There is dried meat. black and re-
pulsive In appearance; betel leaves and
areca nuts-the combination which when
mixed with lime. one may see nine-tenths
Of the population chewing, and frothing
al their red stained lips with saliva
Chinese tobacco finely shredded and
opium -fumed. native tobacco which is very
good, cloth goods, hats. trinkets. dulcies,
native cakes. and an unendlnS mixture
OF sickening, unsavOry combinations. un-
til the civilized observer forgets any good
traits these curious primitive people may
possess.
AT the end OF the village is black
smith shop where barOnss. krises, campi-
lans, and the entire series OF native !