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Show Traveler Tells of Odd Desert Customs The great traveler, Dorothy Mills, has just returned from n journey of discovery through Africa, where she spent weeks under the sume roof with the members of the warlike tribe of the Touaregs, in order to study their ways and customs, says the Detroit News. The Touaregs wander, like the other nomad tribes, through the Sahara Sa-hara desert. She relates that when a slave of his tribe wants to change his master, instead of giving notice to some one in authority, he goes to the tent of the man whom he wants to serve and cuts through the knee-sinews of his camel so thut it cannot walk. He then offers himself as a substitute to the owner, who is generally gen-erally glad to bike him. The women are the most remarkable of this tribe, it appears. They wash themselves with sand and at meals the women eat first, the men and children having what is left over. The ideul beauty for women among the Touaregs is to be very fat. Little girls are stuffed in the cruelest fashion after their eighth year. They are rubbed daily with oil and then rolled in the sand to close up the pores. The women are so fat they are unable to move without the help of their slaves. |