People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Xotice. Professor Bitting of Purdue university will address Ihe farmers and all others interested in hog raising on the subjects of cholera and other diseases that the hog is subject to at the court house at 2p. m. Oct. 26, 1895. Come and hear him; per haps we can learn something that will benfit us. L. Strong. President Farmers' Institute. a ract remarkable to our civilized women is the one that the Alaska squaws make their ages public. They wear a piece of wood or bone in the lower lip, the size of the ornament indicating the age of the owner. When a girl marries her lower lip is pierced and a pea is inserted. As she grows older this is increased in size until it is almost as wide as her chin and onefourth of an inch high. The result is naturally most unsightly. There is an Interesting family at Fort Wranrei, which illustrates perfectly this peculiar custom. It includes four generations. A young girl may be seen sitting at cne side of the ,one-roomed square frame house, while her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother are squatted on the earthen floor near the door, offering mats and baskets to the ship’s passengers who come on shore. There is no disfiguring ornament on the girl’s chia, but there is a big one on the lips of her great-grandmother.