Show By th Way f Copyright 1924 North American Newspaper Alliance How Witch Doctor Fools His Patients In the New Guinea Islands when wb-en a aman mart man Is IU IR and has been reduced to a II state of delirium the witch Itch doctor arrives es an old man with matted hair and an exceedingly dirty skin Around his hIs' neck he wears a a collection of oddities consisting ln of bits of Je crystal yS a pointing 1 n sticks r human bones anti ana perhaps some Bome native medicaments Around his loins loina he ho sometimes carries a 8 second bag with a supplementary supply of these valuable adjuncts and ana somewhere he Is 15 sure to bo be concealing stones nes and pieces of glass which he ha heis hais is going l to ga charm out uh of o Jh the body l. l f of the te sick manS man writes te K 11 VT V Cilento n in inTha Asia The Tha h sorcerer er proceeds Eig to O examine th the patient nt with elaborate t tc c ceremony and then to the anxious relatives that it Is 15 Just as he expected certain stones have been wished Into the man mans man's s body by a neighboring magicIan magician ma ma- or som other evil agency Bending over the sufferer he begins to mumble long Incantations and to rub vigorously Sometimes he is a skilled sIt masseur and uses a hot stone wrapped In bark to knead the sore Bora muscles By this treatment ho he frei frequently fre Ire which i accompany relieves the BO so many rheumatic t Infections pains pains ns Sometime during iC the course of his massage massageS he palms off ott ono one of his stones or fragments of ot glass and the sick man if It he ho be ba conscious generally experiences great pain and reLIef The slogan of ot the old world royalty royalty roy roy- alty Just now seems to 0 o be Be a aking aking aking king and see the world world world-on on a a. British Brit ish ls- warship Seattle Seattle e Times |