Show men of hold women so much stuff to trade women to the men of chief isle of the santa cruz isles according to a correspondent in the new york herald tribune are so much stuff to be traded but highborn baby girls are guarded carefully until the time comes for them to be sold to their husbands then their fun for life is over they haul in wood they prepare food they sweep out the houses every day and at dawn are up and about in the villages cleaning up from village to village lead narrow paths kept scrupulously clear 0 of f overhanging vegetation the trails wander for miles but they are bordered always with neatly set stones flowers are brought from the hills to beautify the way male children in should by all standards be spoiled little things but they are not from the age when they are able to talk they go fishing often supervising the bow and arrow work while the father paddles older men of accept small boys as their mental equals grandfathers ask grandsons ten or eleven years old what to do about a certain canoe repair or a rock that has to be moved the boys smoke moke and chew betel nut furiously |