The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-06-15
bEAUriFUL MOORISH WOMEN.
Lsstrous-Eyed and shapsiy Are Thes,
Clear.Sklnned Maldens Of the East.

IVY NOsNSS - 6ASASS0t
and especially among the higher class
es, where the women. possessing no
more intelligence than q child, are
taught that al men hut their lords and
owners are ficnds. Occasionally, how
evct, by accident or design. the face
covering would be dropped for an in
slant just do \ woman passed me; and
at tho same time an arm and shoulder
would BIO presented to my gaze: The
women of Morocco are of all shades
and colors. and I must say that some
of tho handsomest women i ever saw,
both in feature and form, were full
bloodcd %ncgresscs. Another surprise
was to notice that many of the Moor
ish beauties would show q snowy,
rounded arm and a clear pink and
white skin that the most beautiful wO-
man in Boston would have been glad
to possess, but where they got this skin
and complexion 1 could never find out,
for the men, perhaps from their COZ.
slant exposure to the sun, are tanned
and blackcned to the color almost Of
the negroes. In the country all is diff.
ferent, and little attempt is made by
the women to be stingy with theft
charms, unless from some religious
motives, and to this freedom Of the
country many d poor, simple girl owes
her position as prime favofite in the
harcm Of some Moorish dignitary who
saw her PROJECTIONS while travelling by
her fathers tent or hut.
The principal figure among the
washers was = comedy woman Of per-
haps 20, with a bright intelligent face,
and a form that could not be criticised,
and as she swung herlithe body around
1 could not but fancy her in pink silk
tights and satin slippers: Jacob select
ed this young. person to exercise his
Oriental imagination upon by telling
her tall yarns about my Importance.
and l soon found myself in for more
attention than a man of retiring tastes
would know what TO do with. 1t wal
all right when she felt my boots to see
what they were made Of, and by a de-
termincd effort of the will / kept quiet
while she took my hat off and ran her
fingers through my hair; for while, Of
course, / did not like 1t at all, at the
same time l was very much afraid
of decorating the feelingsof this tender
daughter Of the desert, and submitted;
but when she found / had pockets and
commenced to 60 through them to see
what theycontained, l felt the time had
come for me to tell her there was only
one woman in the world who had q
right to go through my pockets for
keeps and so / tried to change the sub.
ject. Then she pulled one of my gloves
of and put my hand on her arm to
see which was the whitest, and 1 asked
Jacob if he did not think tho mules
were loaded by this time, but he was
SO busy sneezing Arabic at q little
brown-skinned maiden that he paid no
attention to me. Then my companion
ran over to Jacob and talked to him
with great animation, pointing the
meanwhile with many gesticula tons,
and Jacob interpreted that she had q
small sister Of IA, whose marriage price
was a certain weight of silver equal to
$40, and If IcUuld afford sohigha pric-
ed wife I could have her.
] may here say that the marriage
price is always paid to the parents Of
the bride ut the wedding and the MOI.
ey is held in sacred trust for the bride,
Is the laws of Morocco on the divorce
question are so free and generous that
all a man has to do is to open his door
ana Pdt ms wiie out INTO q street, IN
which case n goes back to her par.
ents y ives ~ d1zzy luxury ON the
indignation with which I heard this
PsoPo tss,o : VIII =. leave my poor S,. '9n ro-
tr.;rsS SI tren, aad =; ih ~ : ia on IN
ths .ro,n,;tv ~ ..,.!sa ~ - ;nvs;n,. on
;=.~saant ,':r u ;.ta ys; ~ -. tae. IT,
wansd h.;n@ an a ~ SSa an!, ~. snd ino
wouau oI,Ie LOW let COUSINS auu noI