The Holly chieftain., 1908-05-01
POINTED SKULLS.
Admired BY sems Tribes, Which ss.
sure Them BY Head Binding.

urally conlcal. For that reason SCI
entific men decided that the Male
kulans were in the lowest rung of
the human ladder.
Later it was found that the conf
cal heads we're produced as the Chi
nese women distorted their feet
by binding them in infancy. The
egg shaped head is still fashionable
in Malekula, where some extraor-
dinary results are achieved.
"A conical head" says writer in
the National Geographic Magazine,
retreats from the forehead in such
manner that one is amazed to
know the owner of this remarkable
profile preserves his or her proper
senses, such as they are. I could
not hear. however, that the custom
was supposed to affect the intellect
in any way.
'The conical shape is produced
by winding strong sinnet cord spi-
rally about the heads of young ba.
bies and tightening the coils from
time to time. A piece of plated
mat is first put on the head and the
cord is coiled over this, SO as to give
it a good purchase. The crown of
the head is left to develop in the
upward and backward fashion that
is so much admired.
Gone fears the poor babies suffer
very much from the process. The
child saw was fretful and crying
and looked as if it were constantly
in pain. But the mother, forget
ting for the moment her fear of tho
strange white woman, showed it to
me quite proudly, pointing out the
cords with smile.
"She had normally shaped head
herself, and it seemed that she had
suffered by her parents neglect of
this important matter, for she was
married to a man who was Of no
particular account. A young girl
who was standing beside her had
evidently had more careful moth
or, for her head was almost sugar
loaf shaped. 1t is interesting to
know that this well brought up
young woman had married chief"
The Omen.
Mr.. Newlywed-But, my love, why
are you weeping?
Mrs. Newlywed-Oh, John, John!
just peeped into the kitchen and saw
that cook has on her travelling gown
Harper's Weekly.
Mistake In the Fraction.
Ayer-Is that Wedley's better half
the lady he is walking with?
Gyer-No; she's his better quarter.
Myer-Better quarter!
Gyer-Yes: she's his fourth wife
Detroit Free Press.
A Masculine Definition.
Casual STUDENT wonder why they
call It leap year!
Eligible Bachelor-Because 1t keeps
q good looking fellow on the jump
Baltimore American.
Less Apt to Break.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup
and the lip" quoted the moralizer.
Yes" rejolned the demoralizer. Its
safe to drink out of q tin hucket."-
Detroit Tribune
Poetry, Painting and Furniture.
Rossetti insisted on everybody
painting. Books, he said, were "no
use to a painter except to prop up
models upon in difficult positions,
and then they might be very use
full" "If any man has any poetry
in him." was another saying Of Ros-
setti's, che should paint, for it has
all been said and written, and they
have scarcely begun to paint it,"
a saying, by the way, which may be
found also in the third volume of
'Modern Painters" Morris obeyed
the master and took to painting.
Even when Morris took to making
furniture that craft was at first re-
garded under Rossetti's influence as
merely means Of providing spaces
for pictorial decoration. Morris
built some enormous chairs, "such
as Barbarossa might have sat in,"
said Rossetti, who proceeded to
paint their backs with subjects from
Morris poems.
Axhoosh there are only eighteen