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Show Traveler Tells of Odd Desert Customs The great traveler, Dorothy Mills, lias just returned from a journey of discovery through Africa, where she spent weeks under the tnrne roof with the members of the warlike tribe of the Touarogs, in order to study their ways and customs, says the Detroit News. The Touaregs wander, like the other nomad tribes, through the Sa-tnira Sa-tnira desert. She relates that when a slave of his tribe wants to change his master, Instead of giving notice to some one in authority, he goes to the tent of the man whom lie wants to serve and cuts through the knee-sinews of his camel so tuat it cannot walk. He theu offers himself as a substitute to the owner, who Is generally gen-erally glad to take him. The women are the most remarkable of this tribe, it appears. They wash themselves with sand mid nt meals the women eat first, the men and children having what is left over. The Ideal beauty for women among the Touaregs is to be very fat. Little girls are stuffed in the crudest fashion after their eighth year. They are rubbed dully with oil and then rolled in the sand to close up the pores. The women are so fat they are unable to move without the help of their slaves. |