LIP AND EAR ORNAMENTS OF THE BOTOCUDUS. 757 



trations (Fig. 1) was made to show this method of sticking to 

 the fashion. 



The ear ornaments of the Botocudus are not essentially differ- 

 ent from those used in the lips (see Fig. 2). The plugs are of the 

 same materials, size, and appear- 

 ance ; they differ only in that they 

 are worn in the openings made in 

 the lobes of the ears instead of in 

 the lower lip. The bands of the 

 ears, when the plugs are not in 

 place, dangle upon the shoulders 

 when left to themselves (Fig. 3), 

 but they are generally thrown over 

 the top of the ear. This custom of 

 looping up the ear lobes is shown 

 in Fig. 4. 



Many persons who have seen 

 these pictures have thought such 

 a fashion too inconvenient to last 

 long. But the inconvenience of a 

 fashion seems to have but little or 

 nothing to do with either its origin 

 or its perpetuity. Our own fashions 

 are often complained of as tyran- 

 nical, unreasonable, unbecoming, 

 inartistic, useless, whimsical, and everything else that is not down- 

 right wicked. But all people have fashions of one sort or an- 

 other, and we can only congratulate ourselves that, however bad 

 some of our fashions may be, they might have been worse than 

 they are. 



FIG. 5. YOUNG BOTOCUDU WOMAN, AGE 

 ABOUT SEVENTEEN. The ornaments 

 worn in the ears are the modern 

 pendants. 



AMONG the reasons published by Count Paul von Honsbroch, of Germany, for 

 renouncing his allegiance to the order of the Jesuits, are the rigor and monotony 

 of the discipline enforced by its rules. From the first day of his novitiate the 

 young Jesuit, it might be said, is run into a mold from which he is ultimately to 

 emerge a mere passive instrument of the mission work of the order. The mes- 

 merized or hypnotized patient, according to the count, is not a more perfect tool 

 in the hands of the manipulator than is the well trained Jesuit in those of the 

 general of the order. He lives, moves, and has his being simply at the behest of 

 his superior, and responds to the demands from those above him with a fidelity 

 and an efficiency attainable under no other system. A similar confession is made 

 by Count Campello, of Rome, in his statement of reasons for having ceased to 

 serve as canon of St. Peter's. The daily monotonous exercises of the Basilica, 

 repeated morning and evening without break from year to year, were paralyzing 

 his mental and bodily powers and destroying all initiative. These facts point to a 

 fatal influence of monotony which deserves to be studied; for under the increas- 

 ing specialization of learning and occupation, life is tending daily to become more 

 monotonous and more destitute of true inspiration. 



