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Show ODD EATINO CUS10M8. Prailllans never eat when they drink, nor drink when they eat, an I the Tar t.l ra routlnunlly iieral.t In pulling pull-ing a gue.1 by th eir nnM he dr.nkt, Maldlie Itlanders retire i th dark-eat dark-eat part of the homes and hang curtain, cur-tain, about them, so lint n na of their fclluwmcn may see them nt their meal When they desire to shnw a mtrk of great esteem, Ihe negroes of Ardrn drink from the same nt at tho same time, and the King of Iwngo used to eat and drink In two aeparata hoo.et The Philippine Islander will not rat a meal alone Whenever a rlllpnln finds himself without a companion with whom to share hit meal, he wilt abstain from eating until ha hot found ona A ttranie custom crerallt In Kam-thlaka, Kam-thlaka, where n tntntwhn wlrhet lo .. nl.rl.ln a aiie.l Imltra him Into a cabin, which It hisite.1 to an excaaslra temperature, and then prreies him with food until he It In a ttate of torpor tor-por Inttancri of men dying at then orglei have been known, The Tahlllant, though a nxturnlly sociable raie, dine aeparately Kten the man and hla wife do not ett to-renter, to-renter, llarh member of Iho family hat hit own food-baikrt. They ttka their places about five yardt apart, ant then, turning their barks to rath other, dine nmlrt n profound alienee. |