Show ODD brazilians never eat when they drink nor drink when they eat and the tartars continually persist in pulling a guest by the ear until he drinks islanders retire to the darkest part of the houses and hang cur bains about them so that none 0 their tellow inen may them at their meal when they desire to show a mark of great esteem the negroes of ardra drink from the same cu at the same time and the king of loango used to eat and drink in two separate houses the philippine islander will not eat a meal alone whenever a finds himself without a companion with whom to share his meal he will abstain from eating until be has found one A strange custom prevails in kam chitaka where a man who wishes to entertain a guest invites him into a cabin which Is heated to an excessive temperature and then presses him with food until he Is in a state of torpor instances of men dying at these orgies have been known the though a naturally sociable race dine separately even the man and his wife do not eat to geater each member of the family has his own food basket they take their places about five yards apart and then turning their backs to each other dine amid a profound silence |