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Show A Trio of Husbands. Tho traveled girl was explaining tho strange looking locket she had about her neck on a thin gold chain. "It Is a Iluddhlst charm," sho said, "to keep off bad luck. A swarthy little lit-tle woman in Tibet gavo it to me. She took a great fancy to me. It Is handsome, hand-some, It tbo buck Is ot tin. Tho face is ot turquoise. Thoy mako thorn like that In Tibet. Tho llttlo woman's husbands hus-bands camo up to her ono by one, begging her to go homo with them, but sho wouldn't till sho had finished talking to me. I felt very much flattered. flat-tered. Oh, yes, sho had thrco husbands. hus-bands. Tho women aro very scarce, you know, In Tibet. It wns lovely to seo them dancing attendance on her; tall fellows they wore, too, and handsome hand-some "Sho asked mo how mnny husbnnds I had. It was very humiliating to havo to acknowledge to her that I hadn't any," sho sighed. |