Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 11 | Wild Women Know Love's Wiles

Wild Women S Know Loves Love's I Wiles 5 0 BY ny fl IHS MItS OSA SOX As Aa S Told to Frank Cochran N. N E. E A. A S Staff Correspondent in an S Interview NEW YORK No Nov 22 The he The wildest S wild women in the world can teach American brides something of rea real I love S j I I Where Wherever er i u it e went In Borneo and amI the Xe New Hebrides I S was nON struck by the married life liCe of the sn Living i and da daI I loving Vei In Ao America e is In Ic m most cases se a necessity or a pastime practiced by women as a means of oi support In the South Sea islands the women help the men they men they love lovo and I live and work for their husbands Almost an any Borneo woman could in instruct In S the average American woman in real love IN IS WILDS Marriage is A simpler thin thine I In Jn the i i wild than here There is no real cere cere- mony A tribesman chooses the woman woman woman wom wom- an he will have to wife and tells his hii chief The woman is summoned and the chief knocks out her two front froni I teeth Then she's married The man may may divorce her b by simply telling his chief I But there are few divorces in the I islands A woman Is trained from trots earliest girlhood to love honor and L obey the husband who chooses her and t from the day her teeth are knocked out her life is one of cheerful patient j obedience with no questions askee The wife does dots most of the work and I the more work worle she does the better her husband loves tier her She carries a pound ISO pack of yams up hill bill and aL L down dale without a murmur i I I I I I r I Un One neter r nears hears of or the ite eternal ete triangle In iii Borneo The rhe women omen I are too busy to flirt Where the American woman uses a a. I TIp lip stick the Borneo woman achieves the tho same result by chewing S When hen a girl turns 15 she begins to eat the nut The nut turns her teeth 0 a deep black bu but t her lips become a beautiful red The teeth are filed to sharp points The New Hebrides savages savages sav say ages have queer shaped heads head This effect Is gained by wrapping the heads of new born infants with a tight swaddling swaddling of cocoanut fiber U SO ARE ATTRACTIVE Some of the Borneo women are at attractive attractive attractive at- at almost beautiful but as they become older every vestige of beauty leaves them The tribesmen are governed g by the law or religion of taboo taboo and and one of the taboo provisions prevents women from washing or for that matter matter matter mat mat- ter even going near water I saw av a fi woman noman t SO 40 O 0 y Yi ears yearn nr old oat who vrho ho i I saw av a fi woman noman t SO 40 O 0 y Yi ears yearn nr old oat who vrho ho I had nc cr had bad a n bath h. h Her Iler skIn I bad had become toughened b by long Ions cx- cx until I do tIe not believe It r hai June have c been ont by hy a n knife Instead of a ring for the finger linger the Borneo married woman wears a ring or 01 a stick through her nose When they breathe one is reminded of a peanut stand whistle It all sounds very wild and utterly barbarous but I must repeat that a afew few months in the wilderness would teach many an American woman something something something some some- thing of the true significance of love and and of life