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Show Habits of Tibetans. A traveler from Tibet reports. that the latlve dress consists essentially of a fery wide gown flvo . and a half feet ong, with long sleeves, tightened In at the waist and gathered up so as not to all below the ankles of the men of luallty, or the townsmen, nor below the imees of the common people, who have much walking and work to do. Thus gathered up, the gown puffs out at the breast, forming a huge pocket At night Lhe wearer lets It fall, and Is thus wrapped up from his car3 to his feet, as In a bed. Tibetan women wear the same gown It Is called a "chuba" letting let-ting It hang down to the ankle. Their Iress varies according to .the locality to which they belong. Tibetans, like all peoples of a low clvlllzatoln, delight In showy and massive mas-sive Jewels. A man Is only poorly adorned with a heavy silver earring, coral-mounted. The Women wear regular regu-lar jewelers' shops on their heads Among the nomads their hair, arranged In Innumerable small tresses that Involve In-volve more than a whole day's work, is decorated with three great bands of woolen stuff or red Silk strewn with rubies, shells, artificial pearls, corals, turquoises, amber beads, red agate, gold, silver or coper reliquaries. Tibet Is not a country where cleanliness cleanli-ness and godliness go hand in hand. Neither the men nor the. women take any care of their persons. They wear their clothes very long without changing, chang-ing, brushing or shaking them, keep them on even at night, use them as dusters and towels and take them off only when they drop off of themselves. They never wash their bodies, and only In quite exceptional cases wash their . faces and hands. |