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Show Blouse for a Brido One cotton blouse is the price of a wife in the land of the head-hunting Jivaros at the Brazilian head-waters of the Amazon, according to Dr. Mathew W. Sterling, just returned from that country. But, he explains, the amorous bridegroom must make the blouse himself, spinning (he cotton cot-ton and weaving It so carefully that one Item of apparel soniel lines requires re-quires many months of work. Tin women wear a blouse and skirt, and the men wear skirts and nothing else. These, also, tl'.cy weave themselves, and wash once a day. |