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Show ODD EATING CUSTOMS. H Frazlllans never cat when they ID drink, nor drink when they cat; and H tho Tartars continually persist In pull- H ing a guest by thn ear until ho drinks. H Muldlvo islanders retlro to tho dark- est part ot tho houses and hang cur- BJ tains about them, so that none ot Bfl their fellowmen may see them at their mm meal. H When they dcslro to show n mark AB of great esteem, tho negroes of Ardra Bfl drink from tho snmo cup at the same BB time, and tho King of Loango used B to cat and drink In two soparate Bfl houses. Bfl Tho Philippine islander will not cat HflJ n meal alonc. Whenever a Flllpnlo Bfl finds himself without a companion BB with whom to share his meal, he will Bfl abstain from eating until ho has Bfl found one. HflJ A strango custom prevails in Kam- UM chtaka, whero a mnn who wtches to B CD.tertaln a guest Invites him Into n I cabin, which Is heated to an excesslvs fl tompcraturc, and then presses him H with food until ho Is lu n stato ot tor- por. Instances of men dying nt these H orgies havo been known. I Tho Tahltlans, though n naturally 9 sociable race, dlno separately. Even 1 the man nnd his wlto do not eat to- I gehtor. Each member of tho family I has his own food-bnskct. Thoy tako 1 their places about flvo yards apart, 1 and then, turning their backs to each I other, dlno amid n profound silence. fl |