The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-08-01

rom England, and thinking warm abiution might be
ervlceabe TO her politely walled herself this opportu
NIFTY for initiation into the mysteries Of Egg ptan
she entered ths bathing room attended BY five
oack slaves who somewhat coarsely disrobed her and
commenced their operations in that ed her
nerves, and seemed endanger her personal safety
sun weak from the effects OF her late injury she was
mere bawble in the hands Of Nubian girls and they
tossed rsued, dragged, thumped rubbed scrubbed
raked and scTaped her Till poor woman was in pitia.
bic plight They cracked every Joint in her frame and
when they brought their cracking skill TO bear upon her
back and neck she thought ere about to sever her
head from her shoulders. - "
In the mean time the young Egyptian ladies' ANXIOUS
to participate in the amusement lett the saloon aecked
about her, mnutey pecung her prrsop and assisted
the slaves in poaching her flesh TO Jelly After which
they seized the various articles Of toilet and com.
menced destructive investigation every object in de-
tail petueoa chemise cape, cap collar shawl bonnet
shoes stockings stays, and sache all passed
nously from hand to hand among the They even
began TO rip certain articles pieces order to study
more satisfactorily their construction
1t has seldom fallen the lot oyey woman 10 he
more unhappily situated than Mrs. Wrinkl.bott
in the bath. Exhausted and faint with irightul pro
still in the hands of her tormenor continued
TO pomme her poor frame near " no understood
her language and her clothes literally torn in shreds :
she thought her time had verify arrived She
make desperate effort to herself and garments
from the hands of the barbarans and strange say
succeeded She looked upon her escape, however,
being effected through the agency some
power. When she usherod back to the drawing
room, she altered person. Her appearance was
doefu indeed. She could scarcely alone her gar
ments We're in great disorder and some of them hung
tatter The ladies Immediately took leave and
The Egyptian ladies have little freedom ofaction being
seldom permitted to walk the unattended by
cunuchs who watch the harems and then they are
smothered in long thick wells and cumbersome robes.
which conceal part of the person except the eyes
SO essential is the veil to the Egyptians, that it
sdered far more dsrepuabe for a to expose her
face to the view of strangers any part her
person On this account not unfrequentiy witness
the peasant covering their Oh tho ap
proach OF man. while their legs and breasts bare
and little eopeing upon their bodies Indeed
if their faces are concealed they give very
little concern about other parts.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EeYpr
The estimation in which the wife held by her hus
band and acquaintance depends great degree upon her
ruulness and upon the preservation her children
by all classes rich and poor barrenness still considered
the East and reproach and it is garded as
disgraceiul in man to divorce without cogent
on, wife who has borne him child, especially while
her child is living IT. therefore, woman uesre
husbands love- the OF others her giving birth
10 child source OF great joy to herself ana him; and
her interest alone a sufficient motive
tenderness. Very little expense required in Egypt for
he maintenance of numerous offspring Inoe.d, so
great blessing and honor is the bearing OF many chill
considered by both in the East that higher
more fatterng compliment could hardly be paid to
Young lady than to wish her we'll married. and that she
nay be the mother of a large number of children.
On the birth of child is friends of the
mother to make her presents, proportion to their
md standing. This is generally in money and if the
hid happen to be SON. goo piece Of money given
rad piece, or one Of very trifmg value.
One would naturally suppose that the Importance
nd the prescrv alton OF their offspring, would induce
to be exceedingly vi tchiu their health and
omort until the, We're no ger under their ,ontroi
UGH, believe, among the wealthy Egg ptians
CASE have been their children
,nen SPOILED by confinement acd et.mna,. indup,nce
jut the children which running about
OF Egg p often III state OF nudity present the
neglected api ~prancc mag Unable
Ancently, il is said to have little raise
hillren in Egypt. Owing to the warmth Of the
Innate, they required few clothes and young children
in the habit OF going without shoes and it'll little
covering to their bodies; and trinng the
ense OF bringing up child that it need cost
a, mans estate.
-. d up their children, says Diodorus, with
cry little cos and sparing spon that ad
na,ion, Tor they provide for them bro made OF
nd poor stuff that may easily be HAD; and feed those
hat strength able to bear it, with the piih bull
ushes roasted the embers, and with and herbs
in the tens sometimes raw and sometimes boiled and
other times fried and boiled Most OF their children go
1areiooted and naked, the climate and tempe
ne costs not the parent TO bring up child to mans
tate, above twenty drachms7
| Such have been the mode Of treatment pur
ued by the ancient Egyptians ards their children II
| much the same with the moderns and Judging from
ppearances should say that in the common 1t can
ardly raise child in Egg ut at the present
ay than required for that purpose two thousand
ears ago.
| rHE AuTHoRs ADVICE AMERICAS LADIES WHO TIA
EsrPr-1HE NAKspNEM OF THE PEOPLE
One good substantial bonnet is quite enough, until is
OUT and then as the Turkish ladies
themselves. lady from Europe America, travt ling
hat country, would risk OF being thought singular
IN her dress TO go without any bonnet ut all A few
hanges of plain strong dresses and their sccompan
nenis made with view to pretty rough work, rather
han to the drawing will be found quite sut
lent and much appropriate cling, that
rude and barbarous part OF the world, than ardrobe
| pursuing the dresses usually worn
by ladies in the cities of Europe and America To the
relatively refined ladies OF the literary emporium"
whose commendable Of propriety dictated the
ortance Of putting petticoats upon GIeenoughs Cupd
md who cannot descend to the vugarity of calling
aoons by any more revolving name than inerpres1tes
| would beg leave to volunteer my advice go
Egypt all Fer there vulgar old Nature exhibited in
,syl obnoxious to good taste and refinement il pos
ible, than Greenough's statues Don't go; by all
stay home; make petticoas and ineTPresbies
send to the Garden Eden and attend your blues.
But whatever might have been opinion in reference
the good bad of the Egg pan costume, had
eady advanced far retreat with satisfaction
eves without going still further and seeing We
aad taken some pains to counry and we desired
its Inhabitants its antiquities and otner
ies If our eyes occasionally fell upon other than
,eauties its ertility if they sometimes dropped down
Upon very nakedns of the landwe did not deem the
circumstance a sufficient barrier deter from pene
rating still deeper into the mysteries and the strange
l scenes OF the East
The before every way novel; peculiar, and
interesting Although our first day upon the Nile was
rainy and dsagreeably cold, which necessarily COM
,elled keep within little stved-up prison of
abn OF the time after the first shock, we did
regard the bugs and other creeping plaques
With which our quarters infested further than
to brush them of they fell down upon us from the
/ ceiling or erawled up from the floor
When the shades of evening" however, closed around
u.s. our real troubles commenced scene ndescribsbly
stirring opened to our astonshed gaze Where
only here and there insect discoverabe through
the dav thousand and of thousands made their a
pearance as struck light blackening the
walls and ceiling of the cabin, and pouring down upon
us in a regular shower.
| These We're no "humbugs.n They were all genuine
black horoughgoing winged bugs, Of various sizes,
lively bent upon doing all the mischief that lay in
their power They every where, all sides
which way we would look up or down, before be-
mind, the right hand the Left there nothing
but bugs bugs, bugs They not Of the difdent
nsociol kind either They made themselves familiar
with us as though we had been old acquaintance
Like the frogs Of Moses, which came up into the
houses and bedchsmbers OF the Egyptians into their
ovens and into their that the
land, and both upon Pharoa and his servants and
Upon all his peopeso those egons OF tormentng bugs
upon ms, covering backs, legs arms, necks,
ande on
entering into pockets running down the back of
1ecks and rumagng and effects with ell
ho vile vigilance of the London cusom-house officers
,xamning a Swiss jeweer. At last our case became
desperate. We could endure longer. We rose with
btpo. but,rh Int