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Show COULD DO WITHOUT UNIFORM Youthful Fijian Proved Anew That Necessity is the Fertile Mother of Invention. A traveler from Fiji In the old days reports that at times In the past when the game was first introduced there the l'MJImis used to get waves of cricket madness, mid In some outlying out-lying villages where It was not so readily quelled by law a tnntch would bo kept up for weeks, on end. Incidentally, In-cidentally, they wore their pads strapped on their naked, bootless legs with a very ludicrous effect. But evidently evi-dently the FlJIans have no sense of the ludicrous, for our traveler further reports :' "Another distinguishing mark that rather amused me once up-country up-country WU.S when my house boy, Esau, came in one day with his hair cut away from one side of his head, looking like a somewhat weird 'parting,' 'part-ing,' for the remainder stood up as usual like a bass broom with bristles five inches long. I asked him what on earth he bad been doing and he replied: re-plied: 'Sir, I am now a member of the Lomaloma "A" team, and we have agreed to cut our hair like this, as the store cannot get 11 sashes all the same color.' "London Tit-Bits. |