Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-12

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i line with the vertebrae and flaps UP and
| down as one walks. 1t Is indicate for
| anysman to touch this caudal badge of
| matrimonS. and even the husband is
warned to- let it alone.
| In this same country the women wear
no clothes whatever until married
| when they adopt the TAIL. little
change is now beginning along the line
of the railroad. hut few miles back
nudity prevails. Notwithstanding this
| the Kavirondo.are said to be of a much
higher grade of morality than their
! neighbors. who are more or less clad.
| A little south of that region came
upon a tribe where the ladies wear
/ about the waist fiber fringes of the
length of my hand or longer. and on the
| opposite side Of Lake Victoria / saw
hundreds of girls clad all in grass. l
! say all but this means only skirt
which reaches from the waist to the
knees The young girls wear nothing.
The Uganda women wear bark-cloth
and cover the whole person, They have
great blankets which they wrap around
| them, binding them In t the breast
| and waist, Indeed they are SO well
covered that they could go through an
| American city without being arrested
1 by the police. This would not be pos
| sihle for II kavirondo woman.
| Down here near Broken Hill the wo-
| men wear a cloth which reaches from
| the waist to the knees, and also kind
| of cotton dickey over the breast and
! back. They are plump, lustY-looking
! maidens and can use the. native hoe
/! and mattock far better than the men,
| Indeed the men do almost no work IN
| the corufelds, that work being left to
| their wives.
ODD BEAUTY SPOTS.
| Our American bellies adore dinlples,
"a nd is said that thnir dim
sometimes artificiaily made. They adorn
their white faces with black patches OF
rt-paster, and also comb their hair
in outlandish shapes. | have seen an
American beauty with diamond set
in one of her front teeth and we all
know of women who paint, powder and
enamel.
The same effort to beautify ones self
goes on throughout Africa, save that
the standards of beauty are different
Among the Bauyoro, who live north of
Uganda, the women knock out the six
front teeth of the lower jaw and the
young men do the same, The Jaulo wo-
men have a similar custom. On the
south side of Victoria Nyanza there
are tribes where the women file their
teeth sharp like n saw, and the Buvu-
mas knock out two of the incisors, the
price for each such operation being
four cowry shells or a fraction Of
cent.
Most of the African women scar their
bodies to beautify them l have seen
girls with Pension shawl patterns on
their breasts and abdomens, and others
with great welts on their foreheads and
cheeks, marking the tribe to which they
! belong. In the Sudan there are scores
! OF such tribal marks and each tribe has
| its own way of soaring. Mutilation
| of the ears is common throughout Cen
| trail Africa. The Swahlis enlarge the
holes in the lobes until they become
mere straps which will inclose a glass
] tumbler. These same girls have holes
/ all around the rims of their ears which
| they fill with rolls of paper.
| The Nasal women load down their
ears with jewelry, fastening great
weights to the holes in the iobes so that
they are gradually pulled down until
they flop against the shoulders
J In German East Africa there are peo-