CHAPTER XVIII 



THE EAR THAT WE CAN SEE 



There are men and women on islands in the Pacific 

 Ocean who look as if they thought their ears were made 



on purpose to hold flowers 

 or tobacco pipes. They 

 prick a hole through the 

 flesh of the ear, stretch it 

 and pull it, and put one 

 small rolled-up leaf after 

 another into it until the 

 hole is large enough to 

 hold their pipe or their 

 flowers. Sometimes, in- 

 deed, it is so large that a 

 man may slip his hand 

 and arm through it to his 

 elbow. 



These people feel very 



fine when they look like 

 A STYLISH MICRONESIAN ,1 , 



the man in the picture. 

 He is in the height of fashion, and other people envy him. 



Many women in America used to be almost as foolish. 



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