New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14
TIE DRESS or TIE MOOR.
E,om q Morocco" BY Hamona Dc Amiea

Frora Morocco" BY Edmond ds Anic,s
am ashamed when pass handsome Moor in
gala dress. compare my ugly hat WITH his large
muslin turban. my short Jacket with his ample
White or Tose-colored caitan-the meanneSs, IN
short. of my black and gray garments with the
Wilderness the amplitude the graceful, digniiied sim
plicity of his-and 10 seems that look like "a black
beetle beside butterfly. stand sometimes at my
window in contemplation before portion OF par
of crimson drawers end gOd-col0red slipper,
appearing from behind n column i'll the
square below. and find so much pleasure III II that
cannot cease from gazing. More than anything else
admire and envy the caic that long piece Of snow
white wool or silk with transparent stripes which
is twisted round the turban. falls down between the
shoulders, is passed around the waist, and thrown
up over one shoulder. whence it deScends to the
feet softly yelling the rich cOlors OF the dress be-
Meath, and at every breath of wind swelling. qulv-
crug floating, seeming t. glow In the suns rays.
and giving to the whole person ,VapofOus ana
visionary aspect No one who has not seen
il can imagine 10 W hat point the Arab
carries the art of lying down. In corners where we
should be embarrassed TO place bag OF rags or a
bundle of straw, he diSpoSes OF himself as upon "a
bed of down. He adapis himself upon the wal like
"A haS-relief. and attens out upon the ground until
he looks like a sheet spread ont TO dry. lie Will as
sumo the form of bail, cube or monster with
ont arms legs or head so tat uhe stieels ana
squares look like batte-ilclds strewn with corpscs
and mutIlated trunks of men. Tho greater part
having nothing but simple white man
tle-but what a variety there Is among them
Some wear il open, some closed some drawn on one
side, some folded over the shoulder: some tightly
wrapped. some loosely floating, but always with an
ar Nafleu Dy picturesque io'us. l"ili"S III c"Si
but severe lines. if they posing Tor an artist.
Every one of them might pass for a Roman Senator.
This very morning our artist discovered marvel
lous Marcus Bruus IN the midst at group OF Bed
ouins But if one is not accustomed TO wear IT, the
face Is not sufficient TO ennOble the folds OF the
mantle. Some of Us brought them for the journey,
and tried them on, and we looked ike SO many con-
valescents wrapped in bathing-sheets | have not
yet seen among the Arabs a hunchbach, or IA lame
man, or a rickejy man, but many without nose
and without an eye. one or both, and the greater
part of these with the empty orbii-a sight which
made me shivcr when thought that possibly the
globe had been torn ont IN virtue OF the lex taons,
which Is in vgOr in the empire But there Is no rdc-
uous uginess among these strange aud terrible
figures The flowing, ample vcsturc cOnceals all
small defects. as the common gravity and the dark
brOnzed skin conceal the difference OF age. In con-
sequence of winch one encounters at every step
men of an indefinable age, OF whom one cannot
guess whether they are old or young; and II you
Judge them old, a tightening smile reveals their
YOUTH and if Won think them young, the hood falls
back aud betraNs the gray locks of age.