The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
FLAPPER HASN'T A
THING ON FIJIANS
ISLANDERS TORTURE SELVES
TO ENHANCE CHARMS. HAIR
TRAINED TO STAND UP.

The fapper who spends hours curl
ing her bobbed locks to make them
stand out 3 or 4 inches from her head
has nothing on the Fiji Islanders
There even the men make their wool
stand on end at the top of their heads
TO a height of 9 inches. The Fijan
dandy wears at night an uncomfort-
able COMPRISING band to train his
wiry brush.
To add to this grotesque impression
the Beau Brummel bleaches his colt
fure to sickly yellow with lime made
from coral or dyes it red with an
natto To further enhance his charm
he rubs in scented cocoanut oil and
then sticks varieties of red flowers in
his hair.
When the Hopi Indian maiden Of
our own southwest decides to con-
ouer instead of announcing her debut
in the newspapers she parts her hair
in the middle and screws ii into two
whorls just above the ears. Where
upon Young men who prize their lib
erty take to the woods.
The Madagascar Mode.
South of Mahamanina in Madagas-
car reports the National Geographic
Society. the women do their hair in
two rows of little balls, while behind
their heads they place a piece OF hol-
low wood ornamented with brass
beaded nails. In this cylinder they
keep all their pins, needles and small
valuables. Near the coast on the same
island the women plat their hair in
fine braids which they twist into thin,
fiat circular coils OF from one to two
and a half inches in diameter.
In Seville the women pile their hair
on top of their heads like little fort
ress, a custom they have practiced for
hundreds OF years Big chiefs in some
parts of New Guinea wear rigid plalt-
ed frames on their heads which sup
port cassowary, or birds OF paradise
feathers.
Among African tribes the methods
OF hair derssing are legion. The Wem-
ba men shave two parallel strips of
wool from the nape of the neck across
the crown to the forehead Some cut
all the hair off, leaving fringe high
I'D on the skull Others leave just a
small circular tuft at the back. The
Wemba and Winanwanga women
scent their hair with aromatic plants.
Copy Old Egyptian Style.
The men near Lake Banweolo some
times wear wigs made OF coarse mat
ted fiber. The Bisa women weave red
and white beads into their hair until
the hair itself in places is quite con-
cealed Shinga chiefs roll their hair
until il resembles types OF hair dress
ing seen in ancient Egyptian bas-
reliefs.
The Bambala people shave their
heads except Tor a little round spot
resembling a cap on the top OF the
head. Then they paint the bare por-
ton with palm oil and SCOT. An old
man usually covers his tuft of white
hair with a red cloth and a warrior
wears the bones OF his victims wrapp-
ed in a cloth on the top OF his head
for the magical properties they are
supposed to possess.
The Bakwese chiefs usually coil
their hair into FIVE punches. The Bay
AMI men tie their locks into bunch
at the back OF their necks, while the
women part theirs in the middle and
plat il over their ears.
But the Bahamaba take the palm
Tor real beauty; they shave the front
OF their heads and paint them with
SCOT, curl the back hair and dye 1t
with red clay shave off their eyebrows
and pull out their eyelashes.