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Show WHY WORK HERE? WOMEN FEED MEN TO GET HUSBANDS ON THIS ISLAND Tlie loneliest place in the world isn't lonely at all that is. if you're a man' The South sea island tf Rapa is loon miles from any other land, and it 'population is 150 women jand men. It's always pen season for a husband here and the women lie awake at nights studying niethods of capturing the ( Elections of the masculine population. The best way to a man's he.;: t is tlnui his stomach, ami hence uo man has to soil his hands by dipping tin in into the food how l Thert a always a woman or i wo on hand to feed him. Rapa is on the Tropic of apricorn, off the west coast of South America. Boats visit the place once in two years, and it was only recently that the Rapans learned thai the war was over The man in the picture is one of the first foreigners to visit the island. The native women showered him with attention even feedintr him with their hands. |