. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . be SO worn or taken off, or torn in grief or rage, as to an-swer every mention of it in the Bible. The same remarkapplies to the zunnar or girdle, to the surmaiyeh and ba-buj—the shoes and sandals—and, in fact, to all other arti-cles of dress which we have described. By the time of Moses, the costume, I presume, had attain-ed to about its present state among tribes purely Oriental ;I mean as to pattern, not as to the number, nature, and quality of the ma-terials. Th
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . be SO worn or taken off, or torn in grief or rage, as to an-swer every mention of it in the Bible. The same remarkapplies to the zunnar or girdle, to the surmaiyeh and ba-buj—the shoes and sandals—and, in fact, to all other arti-cles of dress which we have described. By the time of Moses, the costume, I presume, had attain-ed to about its present state among tribes purely Oriental ;I mean as to pattern, not as to the number, nature, and quality of the ma-terials. These havegreatly multipliedand improved, bothin variety and fine-ness of fabrics. The toilet of theladies correspondsin most respects tothat of the men,with, of course, cer-tain additions. Aswas to be expected,it developed flist-er than the during thelife of Jacob therewere habits appro-priate to maids, oth-ers to married wom-en, and others againfor widows; such,^^^^- too, as distinguish-ed those who werehonest, and anoth-er habit for thosewho were other-wise. This impliesa great variety infemale attire; and. IIRESB or PYRl VN (iVrriAN FEMALE ATTIRE—HEAD-DRESS. 171 thus it went on enlarging, until their toilets became as com-plicated and mysterious in Jerusalem as they now are inParis or New York. In the 3d chapter of Isaiah we have acatalogue, about as intelligible to the English reader as theHebrew seems to have been to our translators: Cawls, roundtires like the moon, sweet balls, mufflers or spangled orna-ments, tablets or houses of the soul,^ etc., etc., etc. It wouldrequire half a volume to discuss these names, and then theywould be about as unintelligible as when we began. I can not muster sufficient courage to enter minutely intothe female costume, nor is it necessary. It varies from thatof the men mostly in the veils, which are very various, and in the head-dress,which, with the tarbushfor the basis, is compli-cated by an endless va-riety of jewel
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