. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . hre, pow-dered wood, limeand familiar rice-powder is found in Java ; in Tibet manydevotees of fashion adorn their cheekswith a fascinating mosaic ofstarch and seeds, while theChinese use the starch aids to beauty are the lacapplied to the teeth of the women of thesouth-east of the Asiatic continent, andthe henna employed by Oriental lidiesto colour their nails and hair. The woadof our ancient Britannic ancestresses mustnot be forgotten, and it must be confessedtliat th
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . hre, pow-dered wood, limeand familiar rice-powder is found in Java ; in Tibet manydevotees of fashion adorn their cheekswith a fascinating mosaic ofstarch and seeds, while theChinese use the starch aids to beauty are the lacapplied to the teeth of the women of thesouth-east of the Asiatic continent, andthe henna employed by Oriental lidiesto colour their nails and hair. The woadof our ancient Britannic ancestresses mustnot be forgotten, and it must be confessedtliat the cheeks, lips and hair of many ofour European belles are not always innocentof improvement : in fact, the divinelyfair owes her complexion to the chemistas often as the divinely tall her statureto the boot-maker. A more permanent form of colorationis found in the tattooing practised bymany of the fairer races, among whommay be mentioned the Maori, whosewomen ornament the chin in tliisfashion ; the Ainu, by \\hom a coquettish , NEW ZEALAND. tattoo on the chin found among people. Paint WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Objects ofAdornment. seems to baffle all description ; but ashort consideration elicits the fact thatthere are very few \vhichhave not their counter-part in the highest Euro-pean circles. There is not, after all, a\-cry great difference between a neck-lace of diamonds and one of teeth,each in its appropriate live birds carried in the ears ofXew Zealanders have their parallel inthe fireflies worn by Central Americanbeauties, and the live tortoises at-tached to the girdles of fashionableParisiennes. It will be sufficient tosay that savage belles enhance theircharms by all the armoury of jewel-lery known to their European are, however, a few forms ofornament which the latter have out-gro\\-n, and these are perhaps worthyof a few moments consideration. One of the little Pygmy ladieswho lately visited London had herupper lip pierced in thr
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