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Show PnOQREOS OP CIVILIZATION. HI Tho portrait given below of a Hwatl- MJ land belle Is Instructive sa a tcitlmo- M nlal to the beneflta conferred by the B spread of civilisation Hwailland com- M priira a comparatively small native BBb atato In eoutheatt Africa whrcti, until M the Zulu war, waa left very much to Ita H i " " ' 'awArrorntr HJ own devices. Ily the convention of 1804. Hwailland wat placed under the bono- llcent rule of President Kruger Up H to the commencement of the Zulu cam- BH palgn tho damsels ot this charming H country wrro believed to take their BH walka abroad clothed In their Uauty BH and a smile Today all thla la cbang BH ed and the costumo which has been BH adopted will be teen to be well tulted BH both to the wearer and the climate The BH young lady who tat for this portrait BH was at the time ingaged on her domee- BJ tic duties, hence tho apron, which It BH Is scarcely necenary to say doea not BH form part of the customary eoclety BJ costume The flwaxl men evince n BH marked reaped aud edmlratlon for HH their womankind, and Indeed take an HH eitremo delight In their toclcly as HH shown by the fact that they, as a rule, HH marry several of them A very curl- HH out cuttom which obtains among the H rare It that known at "uktihloulpa " HH by which women nro prohibited mm HH mentioning tho ntms cither ot tbeir HH husband or their liutband's relttlvei HH In order to meet tMt difficulty In dally HJ Intercourse, the ladles uie namea ot HH their own Invention, most of whlca HH contltt of a series of rllcka mtde by H suddenly releasing the tonguo from HH the lower palate HH |