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Show Hurt Sailor's Sense of Beauty, "I liked tho girl." said tho sailor, "only her ears was too long," ! He finished his drink at a gulp. j "Llko all of them ilornoo girls," he said, "sho was slim and lltho. Ile.-teeth Ile.-teeth was white. Her eyes was clear. "Hut .them ears! T'-o lobes was three Inches long. And do you know why? Hecauso sho had stretched them out, had lon-thoned them by.pullln' thorn conti- ..'..y w"' hor Angers from childhood, tho samo as a Chinawoman China-woman from childhood continually squeezes her feet In a steel box to tnako them small. "Wherever I went In Uorneo I found tho samo long ears among the native girls. In Samarlnda, In Sam-pit, Sam-pit, In Kudat, It was t. samo, and It was tho samo In Telokopll, In Danjar-main, Danjar-main, and In Paslr. Tho young women wom-en had ears tfint nearly touched their shoulders. The young girls all sat In the sun pullln" their ear lobes with their flngors so ns to mako thorn long. "Slckei.ln':" |