Show FIGHTING WOMEN OF DAHOMEY I Mothers Hunt and Go to Battle With I the Trained Amazons Tho devices of savage mothers to avoid being bothered by their children I are numerous yet none of them is stranger than that of the Dahomey I woman who simply wraps it Into tho shawl or scarf with which shp covers her I own loins and lets it hang there while about work Tho women she goes nor II I I a4 9 vIr ILi Lei t lllIi 1 iIII k I I t1W l f 1Li qivi IIte ti A4IV u Dahomey Mother Carrying Her Child take a keen interest In all the fighting for there is a picked band of a thousand Amazons that tnacrhes to war with the other warriors The average temperature of thIs delightful country Is about SO degrees de-grees so the men and women do not overburden themselves with clothing run around naked as soon as they run and their mother do not devote very much Ume to their education The fact that women take part in the hunting and drilling make them far more highly respected than is usually the case among savages Then too a large number of the womtjn are taken as wives bj the king and rot a few are devoted to tho service ot the national idol so that there is quite a scarcity of women and us a consequence they are in great demand and respected accordingly |