Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1920 — Aoid Toot of Warrior. [ARTICLE]

Aoid Toot of Warrior.

Among the Mundurucus, A tribe of the upper Amazon, no youth la considered to have attained the dignity of manhood until he has endured the “ordeal of the gloves.” In that country there Is a kind of ant. aa big as a wasp and quite as venomous; likewise another species, known as the “tiro ant,** whose bite feels like a rod-hot needle piercing the flesh, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Two bamboo tubes are closed at one end and into eadh e( them a number of these poioooeus ent* are put. Then the tubes, called “gloves" by couitesy, are tied upon the arms of the young man whose fortitude Is to be tested, and, aaarfni them, he goes about the village and singing. If he shows the slightest sign of distress he Is pronounced a failure and becomes an object of derision to the girls; but, if ho endures the agony without wincing, his promotion to the rank of warrior la accomplished.