Things seen in Palestine . The true Orientalhas an immense capacity for inertia. If his 25 Things Seen in Palestine funds allows him tobacco, cigarettes, or awater-pipe, he is in Elysium. There are many townsmen in the look better fed and less dark in com-plexion than their village neighbours. Ifnot in European clothing—ill-adapted forthe dust and heat of the town—they arewearing shirts similar to those of thefellaheen, but often of silk, and usuallywith a European cloth coat instead of theheavy mantle of the agricultural fine stalwart man yonder in a blackmantle, finish
Things seen in Palestine . The true Orientalhas an immense capacity for inertia. If his 25 Things Seen in Palestine funds allows him tobacco, cigarettes, or awater-pipe, he is in Elysium. There are many townsmen in the look better fed and less dark in com-plexion than their village neighbours. Ifnot in European clothing—ill-adapted forthe dust and heat of the town—they arewearing shirts similar to those of thefellaheen, but often of silk, and usuallywith a European cloth coat instead of theheavy mantle of the agricultural fine stalwart man yonder in a blackmantle, finished at the neck with gold orsilver embroidery, is from Bethlehem ; hiswife, portly and prosperous, is distinguishedby her tall head-dress — a scarlet capdecorated with coins, from which dependsa long veil of lighter material than that ofother peasants; but then Bethlehem mayalmost rank as a town. The Jerusalem townswomen, such as stillwear the costume of the country, are con-veniently attired in two sheets fastened 26. INSIDE TIIIO JAFFA GATE. The fellaheen are coming in to market. Summer and winter they wear the]heavy outer garment as a protection alike from heat and cold. At the Jaffa Gate together at the waist by a draw-string, ofwhich one covers the skirts—often fashion-able and elegant—and the other is drawnover the head. The younger women some-times modify the upper sheet into a moreshapely cape. All who are Moslems, andmany Christians, conceal their features bya mandeel — a square of coloured andfigured muslin—often with an elaboratelace edging. The sheets {tzar) may be ofwhite cotton, or of wool, or more often ofsilk, often of rich quality and whom we see to-day are wearing, forthe most part, white cotton, which is asign of conservatism rather than of poverty,and, indeed, many of the ladies of theoldest families refuse to wear silk at all, asbeing a modern innovation copied fromConstantinople, and unworthy of staidhousekeepers who do their own
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