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CANNIBALS WHO DIE FOR

LOVE...

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BIG FAMILIES TABOO.

Though now more or less "tamed" by the Australian Administration in New Guine Papua, that once most savage dependency of the British Empire. and the beme of sonie of the most terrible customs in the world, is still A country to thrill the adventurous spirit.

It is true that the cannibals who used to hold their blood-curilling orgies almost on the coast have now rotreated far into the interior or have lost their taste for haman. flesh, but sorcery and witchcraft still flourish, together with all kinds of other weird and

wonderful

Yet the barbarous Papuan is as sensible to the pangy of love as the most highly civilised of men, Colonel J. H. P. Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of New Guinea, who has arrived in England on leave, told a Daily Mail reporter There is

is

is scarcely a case of suicide that caused by a love affair. The Papuans are

are extraordinary people for get- ̈ ting 'crossed in love.' When they see Do way out of their trouble they do away with themselves. Their favourite method of committing suicide is to climb a coco-nat tree and full head first to the ground." The Papoans appear to be well advanced the matter of birth control." Colonel Murray said:

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“A woman wiạo hạis a big family is looks. ed down apon by men and women alike. This fact has made it very difficult for the Governm nt to encourage the natives th keep up a normal and essential birth-ruto. By Franting a sort of maternity honeft, however, we are now succeeding in relig ing this strange dislike of children among the

Canitation is effectively keing put down by threat of the death, pensity: You would have to go. very long way into the interior to find any evidence of it. The territory has been almost en- tirely explored, and rust of it is com- pletely under Government control."

"VERY GOOD FELLOWS. ***

In the detection of crline actiong / theme solves the Pipunny still practise ("black magic." One of the commosest firms of this is the trial by ant."

All these suspected of laying engsel.

a person's death are gathiral in a circle. around 2 witch-doctor who grasps in... his hand seven kinds of leaves, a milli- pede, and an eat," explained Colonel Mur. ray, "One

by ung the names of the sus- pects are called out until at the mention of ગ hand slowly opens. This fakira one the the 1 of guilt. The fakir explains that

sign the contents of his clenched and have become so hot that he can no longer krep it closed. After this the guilty one is chased and caught, and if it happens in the

he interior he is put to death.

Papan's grief at the death of a relative is a terrible thing. To indicate

until he is unrecasbes his features |

his sorrow be ents and

But they are all very good fellows, and we shall make them in tão course of time, excollent Imperial citizens. They are wonderfully adaptable, and many of them are now learning English.".

ON BEING "UNTIDY.

A popular novelist once wrote a paper ɔn the text, "Punctuality is the thief of time." He complained bitterly of the houra which he had lost in waiting for other people. From his writings we suspect Mr. Arnuld Hennett to be very methodical but we Conceiv it possible that his revolt against his been followed by a revolt against tidiness. The tuly man burns the candle of time at both ends. He consa

time in pating things away." put- ting them in their places CA a place for everything, dear, and

place"). He consumes everything in its

more time, well as nervous energy and temper, in find ing them when he wants them. This is no ing Taradox

It is the common and bitter experience of the conscientious and tidy person that the thing wanted-book, paper hecktie, or whatnot-is the sole one of all his belongings which is not in its place when he wants it. All the others are where they should be on the right shelf, in the proper file, in the top left-hand drawer, The thing that he wants is missing.

'And

if his housemate happens to be one of the happily, the shamelessly untidy, he must endure mocking for sharp sauce to his private trouble.

The untidy person wastes no time. His morning correspondence, envelopes, and all, is thrown into the rabbish-heap that already strews his table-that sacred mess which no housemaid is allowell to touch with the con*

fasing finger of tidiness. His books aro ́"all

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anyhow with Volume I. onone shelf, Volume IL on

on another, upside-down, Volume III. 90 the sofa ON under s

chair. Into his dressing- room we dare not follow his. Yet, whenever he wanta a thing, the luck that watches over children drive dangerously"

drunken men, the untidy, and all

guides his hard

to it at once. He has faith, and is rewarded.

niggling his guy contempt for a Aim now and then-say, when be.. virtue geta married, or moves house, or comes back from a holiday-the fine, grubby joy of "thorough tidy up." The meticaloas, never untidy, know nothing of that joy:

dare to bo

the delight of throwing all the unanswered letters the unwanted memoranda, the un- heeded notices into the waste paper basket old clothes upon achari

shining and tugun glow of a

r of book shelves all clean and best of all, the d

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now onward he will keep

He vows it. And in'n week he is all

at his case again in his usual litter, and his fuck is as busy as before guiding his undesery- ing but courageous hand to the thing that

Che wants

"THE BRIGHT BOY.

INTELLIGENCEŊ BETTER THAN SCHOLARSHIP

A London boy.who had been transferred

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Such a boy will go far, said Mr. Ji Kay, of Liverpool, at the conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters at the Old County Hall Spring gardens, B.W.. recently. Ife addui that a boy of intelligence was more to be admired than. scholar-who could get four sums right.

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"When my baby was ten months ció a zash and small bilaters broke out on her body. The liching and. burning made her very cross, and her body was a mass of red blotches. The britation was so great that she could not rest day at night.

"Seeing an advertisement for Co ticura Soap and Ointment I sent for a free sample. I purchased thore, and after using one box of Ointment, with the Soap, she was healed."? (Signed) Mrs. Y. Morris, Rose Cot- tage, Avon Cliff, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. Eng.

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