Sight-seeing in South America . e the candidates were called before him and wentthrough the rites of ablution, examination, and baptism. The men received vigorous treatment, but with specialinterest was watched the initiation of a bright younggirl. She was seated upon the edge of the pool, wherethe court barber lathered her face with a white-washbrush, covering it with sticky soapsuds, and shaved herwith a gigantic wooden razor. The dentist then testedher teeth with tweezers about three feet long, while thedoctor applied a monster stethoscope to her heart. Whenthe barber, dentist,
Sight-seeing in South America . e the candidates were called before him and wentthrough the rites of ablution, examination, and baptism. The men received vigorous treatment, but with specialinterest was watched the initiation of a bright younggirl. She was seated upon the edge of the pool, wherethe court barber lathered her face with a white-washbrush, covering it with sticky soapsuds, and shaved herwith a gigantic wooden razor. The dentist then testedher teeth with tweezers about three feet long, while thedoctor applied a monster stethoscope to her heart. Whenthe barber, dentist, and doctor had pronounced hersound, she stood on the edge of the tank and Neptuneconferred upon her a sea-name. Then, dressed in whiteand with white ribbons and sash ilying in the breezes,like a sweet girl graduate, amid the crash of the bigbass drum and the plaudits of the passengers, into thepool she plunged. Here sailors, blackened and oiled torepresent Nubian slaves, immersed her, initil she cameout, looking like a 36 Sight-Sceing in South .-^iiicrica When the name of a well-known Ohio lawyer wascalled, he protested that he was from President TaftsState, that the President said that he did not need a bap-tism, and that if Neptune could only see President Taft,he would realize that Mr. Taft was a much bigger manthan King Neptune, and that, therefore, ^Ir. Tafts wordought to be respected even in the southern realms. Adistinguished actor then interjected that he had justreceived a wireless message from four hundred leadingcitizens of the lawyers home city, stating that the attor-ney needed all the washings that he could get, and to duckhim well. Into the pool he went. Thus, for an hour, the varied and interesting ceremoniescontinued. At dinner, Neptunes health was toasted, andin the evening a ball was given in his honor. In com-memoration of the event, all were presented with hand-somely engraved certificates from Ne]3tune, saying thathe had crossed the equator in pr
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