The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13

, they adopt the tail. A little. change IS now beginning along the line of the rail
 road, but a few miles back nudity pre-
 vails. Notwithstanding this the Kavi-
 rondo are said to be of a much higher
 grade of morality than their neighbors
 who are more or less clad. Q
 little south of that region l 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 l saw nuodreds of
 girls clad all in grass. 1 say "all," but
 this means only a 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
 theh binding them in at the breast and
 waist. Indeed, they are so well covered
 that they could go through an American
 city without being arrested by the police This would not be possible for a Kavlron- do woman.
 ,-- Down here near Broken I1il the women wear a cloth which reaches from the waist to the knees, and also Sisld of cotton dlclxey over the breast and back They are plump, lusty-looklng maidens | and can use the native hoe and mattock far better than the men. Indeed the men
 do almost no work i1 the cornfields, that
 
 Odd Beauty Spots.
 Our American belles adore dimples, and
 it is said that their dimples are some times artificially made. They adorn their
 white faces with black patches of court plaster and also comb their hair in out In ndish shapes I have seen an Afneri-
 can 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 Banyoro, who live Dorth Of Uganda. the women knock oufthe six front teeth of the lower jaw and the young men do @the same. The Jaluo women have a similar custom. On the
 south side of vivtoria Nyanza there
 south side of Victoria Nyanza there
 teeth sharp like a saw, and the Buvu-
 mas knock out two of the incisors tho price for each such operation being four cowry shells or a fraction of Il cent.
 Most of the African women scar their bodies to beautify them. I have seen , girls with Persian shawl patterns on l their breasts and abdoments and others with great welts on their foreheads i and cheeks. marking the tribe to which 1 they belong. In the Sudan there are | scores of such tribal marks and each ! tribe has It's own way of scarring. Mutt | latlon of the ears Is common through | out Central Africa. The Swahilis en- l large the h oles in the lobes until they i become mere straps which will inclose | a glass tumbler. These same girls have
 holes all around the rims of their ears, 1 which they All with rolls of paper. The Nasal woi,ten load down their
 ears with jewelry, fastening great | weights to the holes in the lobes so , that they are gradually pulled down until they flop against the shoulders. l In German East Africa there, are peo- , pie who wear great rings and plugs in
 their lower lip and in the upper lip as 1 upper lip so that it extends several 1 inches out over the mouth.
 Queer Ways of Hair Dressing. i Until I came to Africa 1 thought the ] American girl could put up her hair in l more outlandish ways than-any other maiden on earth. She has many compe- 1 titors and some superiors among the
 ebony belles of the Black continent. Is is true that these African maidens in | most cases have to conquer the kink or | corkscrew curl which covers their pates 1 but nevertheless they have many crea-
 tions which surpass the wonders of the
 marcel wave. of our mighty pompadours l and the other oddities formed with the | aid of the rat. the curling iron or cur l paper The Sudanese braid their hair ir
 long even curls. so that it hangs out like
 the snakes of the Medusa. The Zulu. ! put it up in mighty towers, which ofter