Bingham News | 1926-05-16 | Page 9 | Cruel Old Custom |

Type	issue
Date	1926-05-16
Paper	Bingham News
Language	eng
City	Bingham Canyon
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Cruel Old Custom
Type	article
Date	1926-05-16
Paper	Bingham News
Language	eng
City	Bingham Canyon
County	Salt Lake
Page	9
OCR Text	Show Cruel Old Custom There was a time when "laughing" faces were actuully manufactured to meet the demand of those who wished to be amused. Up to the end of the reign of James II, human "sculpture" work was carried out by mving tribes of gypsies called Comprachlos. who were of Spanish origin. They bought and even kidnaped ch'Jdren, and practiced prac-ticed a science or srt of human disfiguration. disfig-uration. Children thus treated grew tip with an Immovable and fantastic grin. They were an attraction at all successful traveling booths and entertalnaeais until ' the cusiora waa raprMMtl WULtaj UX
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