Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-14
wOWEN OR THE NILE.

The PeculIar1t1es of Looks, Dress and
 Customs Among the CIeopatras of To.
 Day.
 In youth the women of Egypt, writes 8 correspondent of Truth, generally have lovely forms-plump, supple and elegant. An excess of flesh is rare among them. Graceful curves, an upright carriage and finely nodded hands and feet are common pleasing and often beautiful, with the richly-tinted softness of the South. So sweet is the expression of these faces, so Dewitching are the glances of their dark eyes, that an experienced traveller declares they are the most perfect women in the world.
 The eyes of nearly all are large, black and almond shaped; their soft expression, still further heightened by long lashes and the universal use of s'kohl," with which they blacken the edge of the lids. They have aval faces, sometimes little broad, and clear olive complexions. The lips are usually quite full. The nose is straight, though little wide. Glossy black hair, with eyebrows that form lovely arch, com plete the features of these sirens, famed since Cleopatra for Deguiling beauty.
 They dress the hair in an elaborate fashion. It is cut short over the forehead, but on either side of the face hangs full lock, of ten curled or braided. The rest of the hair is arranged in numerous braids, usually from eleven to twenty five, but always an odd number. Three black silk cords, bearing little ornaments of gold, generally fas- tened to each braid, hanging down the back in a glittering shower. The head dress is a complex arrangement. It consists of kind of tnrban, round which is commonly bound gay kerchief or long strip of muslin, folded into narrow band. The latter is usually black or rose colored. The central part is ornamented for several inches with spangles that fall over the forehead, while the ends are decked with gay edging and tassels of coloIed silks, above which 8 few more spangles are sewn.
 On the crown of the head dress is worn a | round convex ornament called the ''kurs. 7" It is about five inches in diameter and ss | costly as the wearer can afford. Wealthy | ladies, and even the wives of some small tradesmen, wear those composed of diamonds set in gold. Others wear a simple golden I hurs, silver being seldom seen, even among servants. The head vail consists of a long l piece eff white muslin embroidered at each end with colored silk and gold, or of colored l crepe ornamented with gold thread and ! spangles. This is drawn we'll forward upor I the head, while the long ends hang dowr
 behind nearly to the ground. The face vail | always worn in public, is simple strip o |
 from which it falls nearly to the feet. l
 completely hides all the features except tht
 eyes, but as these are commonly the greates
 beauty of the women, it serves rather tt
 heighten admiration than to quell it.
 Mrs. Burnett's EceenrrIcities. | New York Letter to Boston Heraldl
 Frances Hodgson Burnett remains re
 garded figure here in New York for he | # I~ala apf
 her oddity of appearance. Her conspicu
 ousness in town is due to the stage use O.
 her story, Little Lord Fauntleroy." Bos
 ton lionized her, but the metropolis is in clined to be amused with her. Washington | is her home. The Burnetts have bought { pretty house at the capital, on Massachusetts, avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, and Mrs Burnett will fill it witt her foreign bric a-brac and take her place l again in the literary and social coteries. Il
 has frequently been printed that her young. 1 est son is the hero in ''Little Lord Fauntle. ! roy," but few people realize that Mrs. Bur.
 netts Vivien is no longer little, that he is ir | his teens and taller than his mother. Mrs
 Burnett's new home is only three squares | from the magnificent mansion of Mrs. Made
 line Vinton Dahlgren, whose acquaintance
 has followed her friend since Mrs. Burnett'
 irts effort, when few people foresaw the
 popular authoress of to-day in the strug
 gling writer of fifteen years ago. No woman
 has ever had a more brilliant social life thar
 the widow of Admiral Dshlgren, and al
 though her substantial income makes i
 unnecessary for her to supplement it by literary work, Mrs. Dahlgren has mor'
 pleasure in her little study, at her writing
 table, penning tales of the world and of tn
 society that she knows so well, than sh
 would have surrounded by it's glamour ant
 glitter.