...fingers, and to poor the draught into their mouth. FIQ. 4. Loobah Woman ; from Schweinfurth's ' Heart of Africa.' " Similar in shape is the decoration which...entertained, or else have developed themselves independently. on Fashion in Deformity. 397 the lobe of the ear for tho purpose of inserting some adventitious object...

...teeth, which apparently have no other object than to make a single combat as effective as possible. Even amongst these uncultured children of nature,...harasses poor humanity as much as in the great prison of civilisation. As a mark of their wealth, and for the purpose of asserting their station in life, both...

...regulated by numerous rules, none the less stringent because unwritten. Fashion, says Schweinfurth, ' in the distant wilds ' of Africa, tortures and harasses...poor humanity as ' much as in the great prison of civilisation.' ' Mr. Lang, speaking of the Australians,2 tells us that, ' instead of enjoying perfect...

...regulated by numerous rules, none the less stringent because unwritten. Fashion, says Schweinfurth, ' in the distant wilds ' of Africa, tortures and harasses...poor humanity as ' much as in the great prison of civilisation.' ' Mr. Lang, speaking of the Australians,2 tells us that, ' instead of enjoying perfect...

...which indeed are fetters in the worst sense of the word; for fashion in the distant wilds of Afcica tortures and harasses poor humanity as much as in the great prison of civilisation. As a mark of their wealth, and for the purpose of asserting their station in life, both...

...customs may well add : " Even among these uncultured children of nature, human pride crops up among the fetters of fashion, which, indeed, are fetters...and certainly so painful and inconvenient — should * The mutilation of both lips was also observed by RohUs among the women of Kadje, in Segseg, between...

...customs may well add : " Even among these uncultured children of nature, human pride crops up among the fetters of fashion, which, indeed, are fetters...and certainly so painful and inconvenient — should * The mutilation of both lips was also obserrcd by Rohlfs among the women of Kadjo, in Segseg, between...

...lips was also observed by Rohlfs among the women of Kadje, in Segseg, between Lake Tsad and the Benwe. quartz belemnites of more than two inches long, is...harasses poor humanity as much as in the great prison of civilisation." It seems, indeed, a strange phenomenon that in such different races, so far removed...

...the distant wilds 1 The Karens of the Gold. Chersonese, p. 83. 446 TYRANNY OF CUSTOM AMONG SAVAGES. ' of Africa, tortures and harasses poor humanity as ' much as in the great prison of civilisation.'1 Speaking of the natives of Bengal, Sir J. Phear tells us that ' their down-sittings...

...altering the natural shape of some portion of the body in obedience to the dictates of fashion, which, ' in the distant wilds of Africa, tortures and harasses...humanity as much as in the great prison of civilization ?' We offer our pity to the savage who tattoos his body, stains his teeth, or disfigures his lipa and...