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"I said, 'What nonsense it is to suggest that this is a tired and joded House of Commons.) "

-London Express Service)

Where the witch

doctors

mend

broken marriages

by

GWYN, LEWIS

Lobatai, Bechuanaland.

URING the past few weeks I have travelled hundreds of miles ncross this featureless coun- try called the Bush.

Nothing meets the eye but thorn bushes and stunted, Bfeless trees.

Yet fonts and rangy cattle of Indifferent breeding provide the country's eight tribes with their

nain wealth.

Almost as soon as a Bamung- wata child can leave it's mother's back. there it spend: Its rat intenths tucked in a shovel, it is put to tending cattle.

are

Before dawD, children driving the cattl from the It would be foolish to build villages miles into the bush, any other sort of house in this where they remala with them country. until sundown

I

Lashed for losses

ASKED one tribesman: "What happens if a beast in Jost?" He said: This often happens. and the boy knows what to do when he arrives home.

"He immediately goes to a tree and stands facing it until his father comes.

The water supply is so pre- carious that whole villages are frequently abandoned when the wells run dry.

Courting couples are rarely seen. Bechuanas are in no hurraj to marry, many leave It until they are part thirty.

Wife for cattle

THE

E marriages are negotiated by the parents. The man

ʼn wife,

"The boy lies down to receive pays what is called a tobola for perhaps two lashes if it is his first offence, or more if he has lost cattle before.

"Father and son, who may be no more than eight years old, are perfectly good friends after the punishment, Little girls also mind eattle. but Arc not whipped."

The children, spending their duys dep in the bush below a scorching sun, may be respon- sile for 30 beasts each. If one

If he marries into a pour Jamily he can steure a wife fur

catile. a dozen

The current

price per head of cattle runs to

£10.

If the bridegroom pays 100 cattle for his bride the wedding is the social event of the year.

Polygamy has disappeared. but marriage ties are loose,

ນ

But Christian

The tribul marriages are performed by the headmen, and so far as white races are con is jost when the cattle are cemed they are cluse secrets. counted at sunset the children always know which particular animal has strayed.

The owner searches for the missing beast next day. He may And it alive, or half-cuten by a lion or a leopard.

Mo

Bolt to mines

[OST boys, when reaching manhood, hope to work in the gold mins of the

Mind. Normally they have to obtain

tan marriages fre- quently follow the tribal rites. some... ometimes immediately. times

year later. Elsionaries have found that the gentle Baitangwatos zind other tribes have accepted Christianity with readiness. Beautiful churchen, built English style, are Alled every Sunday.

A love potion

the consent of the chief. IF after

Fathers keep a watchful суп to prevent them going. Do sible, but thousands vun away.

on leave,

I saw

httTe one When last home he had worn a fragment of clothing about his

mitte.

follow

172

Jaman natos at a tribal assembly in Gerowe wear European

clothes-of sorts.

The women water carriers V

14 million · words of wisdom

Ariel is here, not Marlene

H

By George Malcolm Thomson ·

An

ANDSOME dacs a. comeliness, convenience (the

old Chambers's Bearned handsome is. The new

Index), efficiency. Chambers's" looks an With what whoops of nurs alert and companionable prise one used to fali; upon, array with its new blue uni- CE, the information that, in the form on 15 volumes

French Commune of 1871 0,500 Communards were slaughtered consisting of maps and in- and 30,578 taken prisoner. One dex) in place of the former locks in vain for that colourful redcont ten.

detall in the new version.

lighter

(onc

This is not to say that Cam.

For

With about the same number munism 14 nerected. of pages and words to the page, from it each

volume weighs b.

Karl Marx, described in the than its predecessor.

A few 1928 Chambers's as the "found- There

ore therefore million more

International Socialism," worda In the er of

become the "founder cdition, without a proportionate has now

of modern Communist doctrine" mcrease in total weight,

and is allowed 2 columns. Lenin (half a column in the old edition) har two columns.

Bul

HE MAKES IT —

the buyer of encycio- piedias lucks deeper than op- pearances, Ile wants the cel- tection to which he is assigning * good 21. of his precious shelves to be:

(1) Ar accurate PE fallibility will allow;

human

Trotsky is promoted from. a

quarter column to three-quar ters: Stalin from eight lines to two columna. This seems Jess than just, in view of the fact that Mussolini

three gets columns. Hitler three and a haff. Winston Churchill (not mentioned in 1926, unlike Chartes and Lord Randolph) five and a half columns, and Roosevelt neven.

But how hard it is to be just! On Karsaving the index is. silent, but Lydia Lopokova up- pears as the wife of Lord Keynes (two andi a half columns) Chaplin

there-but where

迎

(2) As impartial as human Garbu, Valentine, or Dietrich passion will permit;

(Marlene, as opposed to Epics)?

Charleston, samba, conga (3) An up to date as may be; appear-but not a peep out of

the

bebop. Sir Frank Whittle (Jet

Tho

(4) A short as possible-at engine) is named in the Index, not Sir Robert Watson 14 inlilion words,

new but

Auden is here, Chambers's probably satisfies Watt (zodar),

but where is Isherwood? this condition:

author of The (To S. Eliot), but not the author of Venus Observed (Christopher Fry).

(5) A full as possible;

Cocktail Party

To make up for this, how- to ever, here are C.B. (English Elizabell (English cricketer),

Joseph reformer),

(English

(6) Interesting, yet not so absorbing that the reader in led 0101 from Hydrostailca Hygiene and after spending the late afternoon In on excited

fr

study of third century hymns manufacturer), Joshus (Ameri- can surveyor) and Roger Antloch, wonder what on

(British painter, critic), to say earth was his original motive in opening the volume, Let it nothing of smaller fry.

Bald ut once that the "new Chambers's does not altogether comes well BUT SHE'S escape this danger.

MISSING

be

(7) Illustrations should be as Iow as is necessary. They should provide some informa- tion viherwise incommunicable.

Although the new Chambers's

is not, in this rospect, as bad

The stage

out of things, Hore aro Olivier and Gielgud (hard on the heels

Glde) Barrault and Welles. what of the

But

at artists who

an offender as others, it has to design settings

many photographs that are too for

small and too

trivial

But heroes?'

Piper.

Roger Furse?

1920

These

would be wrong not to add that is Christian Berard John it also contains some magnif- ceni illustrations in half-tone smalt omissions should be read against the background of a remarkable completeness,

and colour.

A for up-to-dateness work has got

the

down as far as (allowed the space as Exorcism), to is a re- news that Elle

outside the Common-

So much for the general prin- Existentialism ciples on which encyclopedias some

The broad the Jaze to be judged.

verdict is that Chambers's. Is Public

the best compilation of its kind wealth and India one inside it. now before the public. An ex- It has heard of Mao Tze-tung and even of his victory over cellent £42 10s, worth.

Chiang lost year.

They develop the carriage of the perfect manneQUİN,

it

Bainangwato

should

marriage. there

Fees for the services of a the orld pasture that butter loss of affection, the witch doctor range from a bar rarely cuten, or cheese. grieved partner secretly couples for love potion to a

Fish are unheard of, and fruit sults a witch doctor.

bullock for tho most fearful is limited to water melons, curse in the witch doctor's re- pertoir:.

is

}f

Most sober

ite may prepare a love potion, In concretion of herbe mixed with portions of

of an animal, Bones are thrown dier fashion.

ni

of

Is remarkably

anybody recalls in com- In short, 11 plaint that the original Cham- down to the minute. bors's of a century 3C was put out in 520 weekly parts at 11. copy, making £3 5s. lot, he must be told that the advance of knowledge 100 years Is worth at least

Or is it7

There is, nowever,

for the

£30,

answer to the

Д

com-

Now, stepping off the bus, h

The Bemangwatos nte also E Barangwatos were made strutted proudly.. wearing by the witch doctor, squatting rap rollinus. They believe that 1 the most sobre tribe in

It has kept, in its smart new Despite the crass-led on the ground, and a piece of rug of a suitable colour Bechuanaland

Ruise, European clothes.

the sober level-headed Tyhelved! by torrid heat he also wore an army incantations are pronounced.

another quality of its Edinburgh on- When Bamongwata Jones sui-tached to a pole near the hut Sekgoma. He detested drink so Kreat-cout

will keep all evil away.

much that he burned the homes question. The old Chambers's vestor, If its objectivity seems Women at his side carried on peets Bannurwato Smith

alghfest blas In altentions

had genial, quixotle, north-of- to have the to his wife.

persistent drunkards. Young men are convinced that

bo their heads the pumpkins he had excessive

he may ask his favourite witch the possession of a lion's tooth of ou

Ruth hopes to take advantage the-Tweed flavour, with occa- favour of Britain, that may

flashes

natural brought with him.

of ercentricity. the One Bamangwato custom by stonal sultabile spek. or the tuft of its tall will endow which it may be possible to ex- of this custom Because

of dortor to weave

of you a little spread-eagleism It usually gave Thereafter Smith often and them with the strength of the

It is conservative on currying everything from a bottle

temi her husband's atay at more than you had expected petiter.

(Eric GE's Artel i of mik to a bucket of com on uncannily develops an inexpli- animal.

Serowe. The custom of the tribe and how useful that little proved sculpture

the their heads, thr Bamongwato cable malady. His arm may

only recent -British work While in other parts of Afrien is that, when a child is born, to bel women develop the curringe of a wither, he may become lame or

snown) and not enterprising on neither the mother, nor chlid, love his appetite. Gossip quickly it is common to see men and

The old bands will look an architecture, But what 器 bless- perfect mannequin.

spreads the news tint the witch women with only a loin cloth or nor father shall appear outside }xlously to see it

this kindly ing not to have that usual pic- doctor has been at work Women builders

a string of bends, modesty is the their home for three months.

ture of Stockholm Town Hall! And Bamangwato Jones hugs rule among the Bamangwatos. All men, women, and children quality has been preserved, now

that Chambers's,

the likoo pay great deference to the tribal Britannica has crossed the Ber- small holes in the new Cham- The effect of picking a few WOMEN are the builders of to himself the secret of the fron

The women wear brightly chief.

der, although not yet the berg's simply serves to em- chlef is Bechuanaland's homes, cir. which Impaled to a free by the

Greeting the cular huts, with thatched roofs. witch doctor, brought about the coloured, long and full skirts.

elaborate ceremony, both arms dire result

tattered rem- being extended to the front. windows, only a

There are no door.

nants or animal skins. If they Superstitious

On

in

compensation,

this enstrument of reference.

new

more more

Atlantic,

phasise how hard it is to fault The men wear

It is a uso- There is, be it acknowledged, ful And the deference I have seen some loss of this Edinburgh can afford it they wear ready paid to Ruth Khama is most tong;

If, with a shoe-horn, a few KHAMA,

of items

Information Streise's made subs.

might have been crowded in, is ground marked. She is acquiring the and do the thatching.

grandfather, tried to abolish Two

The staple diet tribal

what would one have left out to marriages women are expected to build a both

and maize, made into porridge, with royal touch, too, with a gracious

*CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA make room for them? rondavel, as it is called, 12 feet witchcraft, yet they süll persist meat, especially offal Cows yield smile and gesture,

Edition); xy volumes. outside the cupital, Scrowe.

so little infik 33 the result of --Chandan Express Service)

Georgo Newnes, Ltd. E42 108, in diameter, in a week.

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