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Show I COULD DO WITHOUT UNIFORM j Youthful Fijian Proved Anew That Necessity is the Fertile Mother of Invention. A traveler from Fiji in the old days reports that at times in the past when the game was lirst introduced there the Fijians used to get waves of cricket madness, and in some outlying out-lying villages where it was not so readily quelled by law a match would be kept up for weeks, on end. ln- cidentally, they wore their pads : ' strapped on their naked, bootless legs j willi a very ludicrous effect. But evi- dently the Fijians have no sense of the ludicrous, for our traveler further ' reports: "Another distinguishing ! mark that rather amused me once up-, up-, country was when my house boy. Esau, came in one day with his hair - cut away from one side of his head, looking like a somewhat weird 'part- ing,' for the remainder stood up as i usual like a bass broom with bristles i live inches long. I asked him what on earth he had been doing anil be replied: re-plied: 'Sir, I am now a member of ihe bonialoma "A" team, and we have ,- agreed to cut our hair like this, as the store ciinnot get 11 sashes all the I same color.' " London Tit-Hits. |