Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1893-11-26 | Page 2 | Monster Earrings in Borneo

I Moastor Earrings In Borneo In a paper read recently before the Royal Geographical society London England Eng-land on the highlands of Borneo in the Indian archipelago Charles Hose gave an account of how the native mothers stuck huge rings ttirougii weir daugniers ear at the age of 8 months only eventually increasing them to the weight of two pounds each By the time a girl has come to her maturity her ears thus weighted down reach almos to her el bows and Mr Hose has seen one woman put her head through one of these elongated elongat-ed earlobes In the south of Italy long and heavy earrings are worn though not I approaching those of Borneo New York japprOaChlg 1 I c < < <