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Show 1 Aiways Leap Year. "It's leap year every year In Papua." sab! an ethnologist. "The reason Isn't that the women are the bosses there. No, quite the contrary. The rebson Is that love-making Is supposed to be a thing beneath tbe notice of the Papuan Pa-puan male. "All women look alike to him. So the matrimonial pourparlers all faU n the female sex. "If a man accepts a girl's proposal, the fact that be Is engaged ir. chalked on his back. Dut on the girl's back tbe engagement is branded with a red-hot red-hot Iron." |