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Show ; INDIANS, WOMEN ANT) CLOTHES. Wisdom comes from unsuspected places, as witnesses the story told by William LaVarre, back from an eight months' trip through the jungles of British Guiana, where he found white Indians, whose women were "outstandingly "out-standingly good looking" and whose men were tall and well built. One chief made the explorers put I away their gaudy print goods which they intended to give him, saying "if our women see them, they will want to put on clothes" and "put clothes on a woman and things begin to happen. hap-pen. It is far better that they remain re-main naked." i The experience of the Indian chief is confirmed by that of Adam, whose troubles began about the time that Eve took to wearing clothes. Moreover, More-over, it will probably puzzle a lot of people in this country who think modesty mo-desty and morals have something to do with the wearing of clothes, when many explorers, to the contrary, tell of the high personal morality among tribes whose members go naked. |