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DEFORMED HEAD TO
SAVE INFANTS LIFE
Beauty Not First Idea of
Disfigurement.
Although not so common as It was
In years gone by, there are still nu
merous places In the world where de
formities are manufactured for va
rious purposes. This forms the theme
of an Interesting article which re
cently appeared in the Popular Sci
ence Magazine by Victor Raymond.
The deliberate flattening of the hu
man head, for instance, says the
article, continues to enjoy something
like universality among savage and
seml-barbarious people. Naturally,
the operation is carried out during
childhood of the subject, when the
skull is still soft and malleable. The
effect is to make the skull long, or
short and broad, according to the par
ticular method favored.
Nowadays, the head so disfigured Is
regarded as an object of beuuty, but
beauty was not the initiatory cause
of the practice. Indeed, the flattened
head was not originally a deliberately
arranged result at all.
The custom dates back to the time
when the man-pack still wandered
from camping place to camping place.
During such treks the head of the
new-born babe must often have lolled
in a dangerous manner, and, no doubt,
sometimes resulted in a broken neck.
To prevent this it became customary
to secure the infant’s head by some
means during the trek. The flattened
head was an unlooked-for product.
Time passed, man gave up his nomad
ism and acquired settled habits, but
the flattened head had become a tribal
characteristic, and so was perpetu
ated.
The method employed to flatten the
head varies with the district. In some
places the child’s head Is strapped
against the headboard of Its cradle.
In other places the necessary pres
sure is applied by bandages. Some
tribes employ a contrivance made up
of two boards. By the Klemantans
of Borneo a device Is used which flat-
tens the forehead, the object being
to give the face, as near as possible,
a half-moon shape.
The device, known as Tadal, Is se
cured firmly to the infant’s head when
it is a month old, but the pressure is
applied only when the child sleeps.
Contrary to what one would expect,
this deformation does not appear to
have any injurious effects.
Many savage peoples render the
faces of their womenfolk hideous by
grotesquely disfiguring their lips. As
with the artificial deformation of the
head, the operation is carried out dur
ing childhood.
The girl’s lips are pierced, straws
being inserted in the holes. Next day
another straw is added, and, when the
holes have been sufficiently enlarged,
pieces of wood with the thickness of
a pencil are plugged in. This process
continues until eventually the holes
are capable of containing large disks.
Filled thus, the lips at first project
horizontally from the face, but as the
disks grow in size, the facial muscles
become unable to support them, and
the lips droop.
In the Lake Tchad district of cen
tral Africa, the disk In the lower lip
eventually reaches the size of a din
ner plate, the whole hanging like a
shield on the breast. The disk In the
upper lip attains the dimensions of a
spncpr and droons similarly.
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Our Hero
A statue is soon to be unveiled in
France to the man who invented
Camembert cheese. It raises the Issue
whether we in this country also should
not honor the discoverers of our
famed native viands with permanent
memorials. The genius, man or wom
an, who compounded the first flapjack
surely deserves as well of us as if he
had won a battle. The one who cre
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country. And the discoverer of New
England pie will never have his due
until that whole region is crowned by
an Image of him on the summit of
Mount Washington, done in some ever
lasting native material, such as gran
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WoWs Killers Rewarded
Frequently the visitor to one of
the Italian mountain villages may see
a strange procession. On a cart,
drawn by a tiny donkey, is the car
cass of a magnificent gray wolf, twice
as large as an ordinary police dog.
Tacked to the cart is a placard, in
dited in lyrical language: “What
will you give as recompense to the
brave huntsmen who, facing the
terrors of night and the rigors of the
elements, risked their lives to deliver
you from the wolf that has been prey
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cart march the brave huntsmen, hat in
hand. They receive the emotional
congratulations of the townsfolk—and
many good round “soldi.” — Chicago
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Pocket Flask Revived
Americans have revived the pocket
flask. Flasks are made here today in
more than 100 different designs. The
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Man discovered, the need of a con
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Flasks were often made of leather in
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Amazon has been brought to America
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Heye foundation. The pieces repre
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pottery were also collected. To the
uninitiated, the masks bear a strange
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