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Volume 3 58 |
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LINED BY LIFE, NOT BY YEARS |
FAVOURED FEMININE ADORNMENT |
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| The zenith of a Nepalese woman's beauty is reached in her teens, her youthful appearance being of short duration, and at thirty her skin is often quite wrinkled and grooved | Although not given to gaudy styles of dress, Nepalese women adorn themselves with multifarious trinkets, shell ornaments being an attractive addition to the native bijoutry |