The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-30

Among the women of Angoche it
Is customary to paint the face with a
paste made by grinding a certain kind
of wood on u wetted stone. This paste
Is most refreshing stays cold on the
face for hours, and when dry turns a
dazzling white. 1t is said to improve
greatly the complexion, remove wrink
les, and keep the skin free from
pimples."
With these simple words United
Consul, George A. Chamberlain sta
toned at Lourcncc Marquee announ-
ces the discovery of q boon to wo-
mankind. The ladies of Angoche have
probably had the benefit of the pre-
paration for centuries but as Chamber
lain was the first white man to
traverse the country the fact of it's
existance never before reached the out
side world. In the interest of complex
ion unwrlnkled and unpinpled Cham
berlain reports that u sample of the
wood from which the paste is made
can be obtained through his ONCE for
any chemist wishing TO experiment.
In Angoche, he explains the paste Is
prepared daily and 1t would probably
stand preservation.
Chamberlain says that a large dis
trict inhabited by the AngoChe pco-
pie and Macuas, Is attached to the
African Province of Mozambique,
which belongs 70 Portugal. In 100
years, however, the Portuguese have
enforced few regulations and no white
man has travelled beyond the ports
Wren Chamberlain entered the coun
try he established his headquarters
in the village of chief whose friend
ship he had formed and sent for the
other chiefs to arrange for his peace
full progress through the land OF his
experience he says:
"The chiefs came in reluctantly and
in inverse order to their Importance.
During the day the camp swarmed
with their followers all armed and
surprisingly well provided with
powder, The universal weapon car
ried by the slave and master alike.
was the assogaia, a spear point In
length from one to two feet, with
cane shaft of from two to five feet
long. These spears are mostly home
made and beautifully tempered and
finished but Germany has already
made bid for the market with in
expensive and fantastic limitations
Besides the spears carried by
every boy and man, the number of
guns in evidence--Snyders, Martins,
an occasional old Remington, and the
usual gaspipe muzzle-loading 10 bores
was q revelation, In the hands OF
natives who shoot from ambush these
arms are far more effective than long
range precision guns whose intricacies
they have not fathomed.
During the days spent In Itite-
Munds village the tents We're sur
rounded by hundreds of blacks, many
of whom had never seen a white man
and who looked upon pipes and cigars
as q new development of the cigarette
When a chief arrived chair had to
be offered to him. Ii is said that
friendly tribes once alienated through
its chief having been forced to sit
on a mat when he visited the govern
ment house
while the Angoche are Mohamme-
dams the Macuas as a rule are not,
and on such chief being presented
the formula, This king Is not of our
religion was used which meant we
could offer him drink, In no case was
the dignity of these blacks better
illustrated There was no grasping for
the preferred glass. 1t was quietly
handad 10 the court faster. who, glad
ly taking the risk of poison promptly
drained II, whereupon the chief took
the bottle. The favorite beverage
among the Mucuas was schnapps"
Warm discussions carried on in Con
gress over the adjustment of Santo
Domingo's debt and the asphalt
trusts operation in Venezuela, it Is
said will be substantially repeated |
next winter on the question of the |
relation of high finance to Central |
American revolutions.
Stories told by men who drift into |
Washington from the little republics
are to the effect that rarely If ever.
do political or patriotic motives enter |
into the contest, The underlying cause
of the commotion Is given as either |
the greed of local money lenders and
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