Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
EYN-UL.MCLK's HAREM
FIattering Reception Accorded an
English Physician
By Persian Wives-HoW the Females Were
Dressed-Plump, Good-looking Girls
A Talk With the Eunueh-Ths
Reception Given TO the
Old Nobleman.

DR.. G. J. Willis, an English physician
who has resided IN different portions OF
Persia for over fifteen years, has written
q very readable book on the manners
and customs of the Inhabitants, entitled
THE Land of tine Lion aud the Sun"
The following extract will be found ex-
ceedinely interesting. He had reached
1,heran, and had been summoned To u
nobleman's house TO prescribe for one
of the inmates who was ill. On enter
ing eupuch conducted him to an inuer
apartment, exquisItely furnished, where
he was requested to wait, q water pipe
or kalian being given to hitl TO while
away the minutes. He says: "SId
denly the curtain at one of the door,
lifted, and two ladies entered, aged
about sixteen or eighteen years. i
must acknowledge / was uuprepared
for such free
Display or LONELINESS,
as it was the first time lever saw
Persian ladies in their very becoming,
if slightly iudelicate, home dress. TneIr
1, eL anu legs We're bare, their skirLs
were bouffes by a number of underSkirt>
such a. is usually seen in the ballet on
our operate stage, but instead Of these
undergarments being white aud gauzy
they were ofsilk-in the one case pale
pink, in the other pale blue gold
patterns ON them, and these voiumi
nous skirts barely reached their knees.
Each lady Wore Zouuve Jacket o.
bright. cOlOred gold embroidered velvet,
with tight tittlng sleeves, which but
toned from the elbow with y multitude
of small silver buttons these but
tons were not worn under the jacket,
that left, am sorry to say, nothing
TO the Imagination. Each lady had u
GOLDEN brOidered silk kercdief over her
head, fastened by brooch at the chin.
Both were plump, gOod'looking girls;
both giggled aud full of fun. The one
who was supposed to he i'll had not col
ored a very
Rosy Pair of Cheeks.
the other Yves heavily rOuged. Their
eyelashts were darkened with antimOny
LuL their eyebrows were Imprinted
The Persian womans eye is usually
very dark and large, and the painting
OF the edges of the lids produces a very
languishing effect.
AFTER talking to the eunuch for
some minutes, in which the Old fellow
was evidently calling these very guSn-
iDg young ladies TO order, they sudden
". pumped down Oh theiI knees in
non. of me and compelled me TO feel
both their pulses, look at both their
tongues, examine their Threats, and
SIC, nd time to feel their pulses at the
OlLer wrists. AS | understood very lit
tie Persian, anu neither they nor the
,unuch anything but that language, it
Was very difficult to make out what the
matter was. One thing Was very GER
laiD, they looked upon the whole mat
ieI as a very good joke, aud seemed in
clined 10 torment the eunuch and make
.leat fun of me. At last one lady
showed me flea-bite on very round
and shapely arm, which literally jingled
with glass bangles and gold bracelets.
AS this was the most serious symptom
| had seen began to think ] had bet.
ter retire, when tea was brought in by
young negress.
THE ladies,
The Eunuch
and myselfall partook, but the two la
uies did so with shrieks of laughter, in
which the negroes Joined. Suddenly
u cry of Aga! agan (the mastery Was
raised, and saw Eyn-ul Milk jeye OF
The state) coming up the garden. The
two indlscreet ones became at once
,laId matrons of the severest type.
They sprang to the other side of the
room and drew their kerchlefs, or rath
,r the corners of them, over their faces
leaving the eyes alone visible, aud the
young negress who had brought the
tea became a statue of prOpriety in
ebony, pulling her big print veil over
her mouth till she looked like living
bolster. The old nObleman came in
and was made again to feel the pulse
OF the patient and look again at her
tongue. But nothing but her eyes and
tongue were now visible, aud both la.
dies pretended TO look upon the infidel
doctor with horror. They answered
their husbands question in whisper,
ana in few minutes followed Eyn.
ul. Molk to the "oeruni," or general
apartments. l now managed to fluid
out that the fair sufferer had that morn
ing, very early, had a slight attack Of
intermitten fever, and with the help Of
an interpreter, said / would prescribe
on getting home. The farewell pipe
WAS brought, and l retired, L trust,
gracefully.