Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ven in the con-stant East. The ladyon the left is clad in themodern style of theLevant, and her com-panion (who holds arose in her hand) isportrayed in the iden-tical dress worn fiftyyears ago by the artistsgrandmother, who wasa native of Smyrna. Apropos of ladiescostume, remarks LordLindsay, it may notgenerally be known thatbussels and patches areboth of Eastern were, accordingto Abulghazi Khan, afavourite ornament ofthe ladies of TungooseTartary; andDAr
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ven in the con-stant East. The ladyon the left is clad in themodern style of theLevant, and her com-panion (who holds arose in her hand) isportrayed in the iden-tical dress worn fiftyyears ago by the artistsgrandmother, who wasa native of Smyrna. Apropos of ladiescostume, remarks LordLindsay, it may notgenerally be known thatbussels and patches areboth of Eastern were, accordingto Abulghazi Khan, afavourite ornament ofthe ladies of TungooseTartary; andDArvieuxconsiders the fashionstill general among theArab women, of orna-menting their faces withsmall punctured marks, as an approximation to them. It was reserved for the ladies of England toinvest patches with the dignity of party signals; (see the Spectator, No. 81).Bussels are of Persian origin, being, as Dr. Nott observes, in his notes onthe Odes of Hafiz, 4 the refaight, or the kind of bolster which the Persianladies fixed to the under garment, and which was to produce a certainroundness, which they thought becoming/. Levantine Costumes- * Addison. DAMASCUS. 251 Very erroneous notions generally prevail in Europe respecting the con-dition of Eastern women,—and this reminds us of a little incident noted byMr. Paxton at the village of Zebdeni, on his way to Damascus. We hadfinished our supper, he says, and were going to bed, when some familyquarrel or another broke out among the villagers, and for a short time therewas a terrible strife of tongues. It died away in part, and I hoped wasabout to terminate, but was revived and continued mainly between one manand woman as the voices indicated; and such a scold I have seldom heard !The woman appeared manifestly to have the advantage: her tongue musthave been used before, or it could not have been wielded with such terriblepower on the present occasion. The adversary (whether neighbour, orbrother, or husband I know not, but suspect
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