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Show A Trio of Husbands. Tho traveled girl was explaining tho strango looking locket sho had about her neck on a thin gold chain. "It Is a Buddhist charm," sho said, "to keep off bad luck. A swarthy little lit-tle woman In Tibet gavo It to me. She took a great fancy to me. It Is handsome, hand-some, if the back is of tin. The face is of turquoise. They mako them like that In Tibet. Tho llttlo woman's husbands hus-bands camo up to her ono by one, begging her to go homo with them, but sho wouldn't till sho had finished talking to mo. I felt very much flattered. flat-tered. Oh, yes, she had three hus bands. Tho women aro very scarce, you know, In Tibet. It was lovely to see them dancing attendance on her; tall follows they woro, too, and handsome. hand-some. "Sho asked mo how many husbands I had. It was very humiliating to havo to acknowledge to her that I hadn't any," she sighed. |