Painted And Dyed

Arab girls beforo they enter the harem and take the veil are a curious sight to behold. Their bodies and faces aredyed a bright yellow with tunnerio. On this ground they paiut black lines with antiinony over their eyes. The fashionable color for the uose is red. Green spots adora the cheeks, and the general aspect is grotesque beyond description. My wife tells me that tho bolles in the bultan's harem are also paiuted in this fashion, and that they also paint gloves on their hands andshoes on their feet, and thus bedizened hope to secure the íiñ'ectious of their lords. At Shief themeu wouldnot allow my wife to approach or hold any interconrse with the Arab woinen, using opprobrious epitheta when she tried to make friendly overtnrea, with the quaint resnlt that wlienever ]lrs. Bent nlvíuioed toward a group of gazing fem&lea they fled precipitate)y, like a flock (jf sheep before a collie dog. These woinen wear their dresses high iu front, showing their yellow legs above the kneo, and long behiud. They are of deep blue cottou, decorated with line embroidery and patches of yellow and red sewed on in patteru. It is the universal feniale dress in Hadramut and looks as if the fashion had not changtd since the days when Hnzarmaveth, the patriarch, settled in this valley and gave it its name (Genesis x, 28). The tall, taperiug straw hat worn by these woinen when in the flelds contributes, with the ma.sk, to make the Hadrami témales as uxtornally repulsive as the most jealous of husbauds could deniri!. -