Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12
Where Wives
ArpApt 70L0Se
Their Noses

at his mate steh- heavy. handed housefofders
usually up the hoosegow sometimes
judges occasionally THINK
the lady asked for but Jurisprudence does
not condone wife beating and usually penalties the
who in for such Unpleasant antics to prove he rules
the
There some places in the world however where
pushing the Little Woman a permissible pastinie
One such place is that remote region in Northwest India
marked down the maps Waztistan.
1t is an old Manifestation custom FOR husbands rho
dislike their for another 10 h,o the
womons cut off by the local barber sometimes
the heat of the amputaton done home by the
husband himself and with whatever instrument
hand
the legends Of wazrstan arc true it is ordinarily
the Maynard wife who gets friendly with another
who pays folly with her proboscis But
lesser oenses slch nagging too long and too loudly
also have been paid for with severed sno'ts
Not long ago Waziristan merchant by the IF
Nus Brajmanyn smelled unique and profitable oppor
tunity the noseless womenfok his boiled
land On visit the British Isles he had
the false used the stage and by undertaers
up the Disagreement Of violent end and he
struck by
Shrewd Mr. Brajmanyin studied these n1an-nlade
"snozzles" with extreme and put his
several dozen the things In they
the village of WaHa where he has his shop he let
be known thatfor price-he could restore the profile
OF many disfgured matrons The speed with which the
merchandise ne ordered Britain the
hands and onto the Of his eager
70 his keen business
ON several occasions the merchant ordered other
patches Of phony thus adding considerably
already stable bank balance, which enabled the
provide his only daughter with dowry enough
get her Of the counrys leading young business
men a husband 4
This son-n-law apparently operating under the theor,
that there place for sentiment business
that all the sold by his wes father pnls
color and did not harmonic overly well with the sUathy
faces the Waziristan
So the sly ne ordered shipment Of the pre-fabri-
Gated "beezers,' making that they just the
right tones Of brown to appeal TO the market he had
1t turned out, he than his
father-n-aw rc-sold Of the old customers
The new collection Of artificial noses also bad the
charm of great variety well proper color The
less able almost any effect they wanted
If they didn't like Roman they could get them
charmngy Those who preferred the
lined Greek model found available
More than once the Colonial Governors Of India
depored the method by which Waziristan try
keep their faithful and reasonably quiet Orders
have been issued making prison offense to lay knife
the any member Of the fair in that
of India But the practice has continued and no man ever
has been put behind the bars for
Mr. Bfajmanyn, The story goes, once raised his
voice in opposition TO the nose-rcmovng tradition but
before he appreciated the trade possibilities
false the village OF wana hl
the old has seen the light again and Is doing
propaganda work the of his district who
think the time stop revolving practice.
Rumor also has il that Mr. Bramanyin's son-in-la,v
has openly him of changing his because he
the old is no longer the leading nose merchant Of
the place.
by pointing there other places in the world
where law and maintained among the
folk of the community by methods that may little
drastic TO outsiders In Siberia for example there is
tribe called the Hanghis The Hanghi men are absolute
masters and it is their habit, when they
want to chastise girls take off all their clothes
lock them out in Arctic weather for awhile to think
things
During this coolingoff process the women are denied
anything TO and they away they beaten
not husbands but by the old Of the tribe
who grim delight in nflicting punishment
which most suffered time another
Maybe the Wazrisans know about unpleasant social
the Pacific Island known in the aliases Busy
this empire the mcnfoks the bosses and
get mdfed with their they them into
a pig sly and force them TO take their meals
with the hogs until they decide TO behave.