The Holy Land and Syria . The street-dress of the woman of Damascus is a bag of black silk tiedin at the waist and a black veil so thick that she can hardly see her wayabout. Feminism and style-changes make little headway in Moslemlands. I am five feet eight inches tall but could not reach to the upper edgeof this fragment of one of the giant columns at Baalbek. Once a centreof worship of Baal, there were built later temples to Jupiter, Mercury,Venus, and Bacchus THE VEILED WOMEN OF DAMASCUS take the veil at eleven or twelve and keep it on aftermarriage and indeed until death. And then the hou
The Holy Land and Syria . The street-dress of the woman of Damascus is a bag of black silk tiedin at the waist and a black veil so thick that she can hardly see her wayabout. Feminism and style-changes make little headway in Moslemlands. I am five feet eight inches tall but could not reach to the upper edgeof this fragment of one of the giant columns at Baalbek. Once a centreof worship of Baal, there were built later temples to Jupiter, Mercury,Venus, and Bacchus THE VEILED WOMEN OF DAMASCUS take the veil at eleven or twelve and keep it on aftermarriage and indeed until death. And then the houses! All of the Mohammedans havehomes so latticed that the women cannot be seen from thestreets. In some cases the windows are built over thesidewalks, hanging out like cages of wooden is true even in the new apartment houses whichare now going up, as well as in the huts of the poor, al-though the latter seldom have windows except at theback. The ordinary lattice is made of canelike rushesor sticks, and preparing them is a special trade followedby many. The rushes are brought in to Damascus on thebacks of donkeys, which as they go fill the streets withtheir loads. It behooves the Mohammedan woman to be strict inher c
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