Show facts for the curious female beauty the ladies of arabia stain their fingers and toes red their eye eyebrows brows black and their lips blue in persia they paint a blaak black streak around the eyes and ornament their faces with various fi figures gares the japanese women gild their teeth and those of the indians paint them red the pearl of the teeth must be be dyed black to be beautiful in Gu the women paint the entire body in compartments of red and black in greenland the women color their faces with blue and yellow and they frequently tattoo their bodies by saturating thread in soot inserting them beneath the skin and then drawing them through hindmo females when they wish to appear particularly ticul arly lovely smear themselves with a mixture of saffron numeric and grease in nearly all the islands of the pacific and indian oceans the women as well as the men tattoo a great variety of figures on the face the lips tongue and the whole body in new holland they out cut themselves with shells and keeping the wounds open a long time form deep scars in in the flesh which they deem highly ornamental and another singular addition is made to their beauty by taking off in infancy the little finger of tle the left hand at the second joint in ancient persia an acquiline nose was often thought wort worthy y of the crown but the sumatran mother carefully flattens the nose of her daughter among some of the savage savage tribes of oregon and also in sumatra and Ar continual pressure is is applied to the skull in order to flatten it and talus thus give it a new beauty the modern persians have a strong aversion to red hair the tur turks k s on the contrary are warm admirers of it in china small round eyes are liked and the girls are continually plucking their eve brows that they may b be t thin hin and long aut the great beauty of a chinese lady is in her feet which in childhood are so compressed by bandages as effectually to prevent any further increase in size the four smaller toes are turned under the foot to the sole of which they firmly adhere and the poor girl not only endures much pain but becomes a cripple for life another mark maik of b beauty ea uty consists in finger 0 nails so long that casings of bamboo are necessary to preserve e them from injury an african beauty must have small eyes eye thi thick 1 I ck li lips a large flat nose and a skin be beautifully ela black ck in new guinea the nose is perforated and a lar large e piece of wood or bone inserted in the n northwest 0 AE we 9 t C coast of america an incision more than two inches in length is made in the lower lip and then filled with a wooden plug in guiana the lips jip are pierced with thorns the heads being in inside the mouth and the point resting on the the chin the tunisian woman of moderate pretensions to beauty needs a slave under each arm to support her when she walks and a perfect belle carries flesh enough to load down a camel amer |