The Rhondda Leader

QUEER CUSTOMS. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil, the coffin, hearse, and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. In nearly every street of the cities of Japan there is a publiff oven, where, for a small fee, people may have their dinners cooked. Among female Moors, birthday celebrations are unknown. A Moorish woman considers it a point of honour to be absolutely ignorant of her age. Turkish women do not come into control of their private fortunes until after marriage. After that they can dispose of one-third of it without the husband's consent. In South Greenland the colour of the hair- ribbon which a woman ties round her head denotes the social condition of the wearer- whether she be maid, wife, or widow. I In Abyssinia it is the law that the murderer be turned over to the relatives of the dead person, and, if they plee, they may put him to death in the same Manner in which the murdered person was killed. There is a Spanish proverb that "on Tuesday one should never travel or marry," and this superstition is so ingrained that even in Madrid there are never any weddings on Tuesdays, and trains are almost empty.

MARRIAGE SUPERSTITIONS, Marry when the year is new, Always loving, kind, and true- When February birds do m-ltc, You may wed, nor dread your fate. If you marry when March winds blow, Joy and sorrow both you'll know. 1 Marry in April when you can, Joy for maiden and for man. Marry in the month of May, You will surely rue the day. Marry when June roses blow, Over land and sea you'll go. They who in July do wed Must labour always for their bread, All who wed in August be, Many a change are sure to see. Marry in September's shine, Your living will be rich and fine. If in October you do marry, Love will come but riches tarry. If you wed in bleak November, Only joy will come, remember. When December's snows fall fast If you marry, love will last.

SOME INFLUENCE OF FOOD, A French medical journal gives the effects of different foods on temperament. According to this authority, a diet consisting largely of pork will make a person p essimistic. Beef, if eaten month after month, will make a man strong, energetic, and audacious while a mutton diet, if continued for any length of time, will make one melancholy. The person who eats much veal will gradually lose energy and gaiety. Eggs and milk used freely will make a woman healthy and vivacious. Butter used too freely will make one phlegmatic and lazy. Apples, this j.n;rnal says, are excellent for brain worker. and anyone who has much intellectual work to do ould eat very freely of them. Potatoes, on the other hand, will make a person dull and inactive. Mustard is cited as a preservative of the memory even to an advanced age.

♦ THE OLDEST LOVE-LETTER. A French paper records the discovery of what appears to be the oldest love-letter in the world. It was written on a brick, about 2,200 B.C., by a Babylonian to a lady living at "the two Sippars "-a. city known to readers of the Old Testament as Sepharvaim. The lover's name was Gimil, and he writes as follows to Kasbuya (a word that means a lamb): "May the sun of Marduk give thee eternal life. I would fain know if thy he ilt.li is good. Send me a message so that I may be informed of it. I am at Babylon and cannot see thee, and therefore am very anxious. Send me a message to tell me when thou wilt come, so that my heart may rejoice. Come in the October-November month. Mayi-st thou live long, so that I may enjoy thy love."

BoRiNa GLASS. Holes may be bored through glass by means of a rapidly-rotating steel borer kept moist with turpentine. The object may be accomplished readily by using a borer tempered at as low a temperature as possible (so as to be as hard as glass), and rotating it, only slowly, taking par. ticular care that it is kept constantly moist with oil of turpentine. Glass may also be bored quite reacMly with the aid d petroleum, though this does not possess the power of cooling the tool in the same degree as oil of turpentine. In order to prevent the chipping of the edges at the com- mencement of boring, it is preferable to make a preliminary hole with a hard, three-cornered steel point. This hole should be a trifle l-irger than that which is to be 1 oved through the glass. The latter may then be dril'el as described be- fore. In order to prevent the glass at the opposite side from breaking or chipping when the borer begins to pass through, a piece of glass must be cemented against the other side.

4p. CHARACTER OF THE ESQUIMAUX. Because the Esquimaux have never offered armed resistance to the invasion of their country by adventurers, prospectors, miners, and settlers, casual observers of them, as a race, have made the popular mistake of assum- ing that they are a weak and decadent people, whereas, says Mr. Dobbs, a Seattle photographer -who has lived with them in their hardships and their isolation for three years, and has probably had opportunities of studying their character which no other white man ever had- the warfare they conduct against the elements, the hardships they endure, and the dangers they invite in the pursuit of food, clothing, and shelter, call for the display of courage and daring of the highest character. In the industry of fishing in the Behring Sea or the Arctic Ocean they brave the fierce storms of those waters with a hardy endurance, and manage their frail "bidarkas" with a skill displayed by few if by any other uncivilised people. In the pursuit of big game—the walrus, the polar bear, the elk and the caribou, and even the whale—they encounter dangers innumerable, and with a careless fatalism akin to that manifested by the Japanese, from whom they are thought by some scientists to be direct descendants. Beside these hardships, the poverty of the Esquimaux renders it impossible for them to construct living quarters which are at all sanitary in their arrangements, and making it necessary for families of from five to twenty to lire through- out the long winter season m a single room, eating, sleeping, and working, sick and well, exposed alike to inconvenience, suffering, and contagion, sometimes going for days without a fire, eating raw food of smoked salmon and dried berries. But through all of these hard- ships they are a hardy, industrious, self-reliant race, wringing their own livelihood from their scanty surroundings at the cost of untold exertion and hardship. Mr. Dobbs has pictured them as individuals strong-limbed, square- shouldered, lithe, and graceful, with square jaws and clear-cut lineaments of face and body, some of the women of the race even possessing a measure of uncultured beauty and attractive.. ness.

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