Show I TWO TWO MINUTE MINUTE BEAUTY CHATS By y Pauline Furlong On the other side of the world world that that part of it where the South American j continent tapers off into the Antarctic I ocean the ocean the inhabitants dont don't look for gold y weather ath r Jo to come north f as we do for their winter creeps upon them from the south And farthest I south south even evet of the Straits of off I f Magellan at the tip of Cape Horn is 1 j j perhaps the coldest part of all the i miles from Panama I Yet Fold desol desolate te and inhospitable as as this country a s and Is it is peopled by a race called the Canoe Indians Indiana They are a branch of the Onas and nd nd spend their lives in canoes or on 1 shores that are rough and rugged sometimes towering into mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain p peaks aks at others lying nearly awash In n the bitter sea that pounds j i p its ice upon the shore in never ending I j attacks Somehow they manage to wrest a living from the country and andi I i to survive the he terrific storms that I sweep over land and sea j i It is said that the stunted appearance I i of the lower limbs of the Canoe Indians Indi- Indi I I ans is due to actual distortion caused j I by spending much of their lives on onI their haunches In canoes plying their I paddles True it is that they walk with a waddle and are not prepossessing g in appearance Their faces re reI remind remind re- re mind one of Mongolians their hair is I black long and stringy and though the I climate is cold they wear but little clothing The frequent storms that sweep the theland theland land make it often Impossible for them to hunt to gather birds' birds eggs or to spear fish so they became accustomed I to a diet of mussels This is why they I usually make their camping places near a plentiful supply of these bi bi- bi valves To add to their menus the I women dive into dep water water cold cold as as' as ice it is is and and bring up from the depths lu lup limpets p and s sea a eggs Yes Yes- much of the work is done by the women and each man has several wives I It is natural that in such surroundings surround surround- surround surround-j ings t there ere should be no laws operative I and that even tribal customs are difficult difficult cult to enforce Therefore the people take talce into their own hands the righting I of wrongs Here Is the way they deal with a murderer When a man is killed Jellied the women see that justice is meted out to the one Who killed him Led by his wives they attack the culprit and beat him until he Is nearly dead or escapes Then they set about the burial of the victim Sometimes they burn the body as the Hindus do upon a funeral pyre And then they dispose of the victims victim's prop prop- erty The wives of the man t themselves split all their dugout canoes and cast them adrift drown their dogs and burn their wigwams and then in the biting cold start out together upon a new life As they were the wives of one I j I man so may they again become the wives of another man but they bring him rio no dowry for loyalty their loyalty to their i first husband has h s caused them to destroy de- de stroy s roy everything that was his Copyright 1918 by Newspaper Feature Feature Feature Fea- Fea I de-I ture Service Inc |