. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . and covering a system ofnet-work, called sulfa, at-tached to the back of the head-dress, which spreads over theshoulders, and falls down to the waist. These jewels cannot be taken for the husbands debts. A ]>oor man often 186 THE LAND AND THE EAR-DEOrS. goes to prison for a few piasties,■while thousands ghtter and jingleon the dress of his wife. This isvery provoking to the creditor, whoknows that his money has been pur-posely attached to these inviolableo
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . and covering a system ofnet-work, called sulfa, at-tached to the back of the head-dress, which spreads over theshoulders, and falls down to the waist. These jewels cannot be taken for the husbands debts. A ]>oor man often 186 THE LAND AND THE EAR-DEOrS. goes to prison for a few piasties,■while thousands ghtter and jingleon the dress of his wife. This isvery provoking to the creditor, whoknows that his money has been pur-posely attached to these inviolableornaments, so that he may not gethold of it. Married women aremuch more eager after ornamentsthan unmarried. The former alsoadorn themselves more elaborately,and endeavor to add to their beautyby wearing gay flowers, by paintingtheir cheeks, putting kahl aroundtheir eyes, and arching their eye-brows with the same, and by stain-ing their hands and feet with is considered indelicate for theunmarried thus to deck themselves,and conveys an impression highlyinjurious to the girls moral charac-ter. They do not even wash thtirfaces, or at least not openly. It isone of the strange anomalies of Ori-ental society that the tailors makethe ladies dresses; but, as their gar-ments are infinitely .large, and never designed to fit, there isno measuring needed, nor tr3nng on of
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