Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-06-26
A PERSIAN PRINCESS.
Her Brief Experience With the European
 Style of Dress.

ner to ask me if I would allow her to don certain articles of my attire.
 ''All of us, she said, have the greatest desire to become English in our dress and customs, but although such privilege as that will never be granted us still I have a great wish to see how I should look in them, just for fun. "
 Entering into the joke, I led the way to my bedroom, but Ihardly re- alized what difficulties were pend- ing. She was not happy until per mitted her to begin from the very beginning of nethermoSt garments and had to work gradually upward. The stays she several times impress ed upon mo must on no account be omitted, but here a difficulty at once presented itself, for they would not meet within 10 or 12 inches. She was determined, however, not to be mastered, and it was not until the laceS had been cut and heightened and recut and tried on and taken off numberless times that she succeeded with last tremendous struggle in fastening them around her.
 Hoping that at last the efforts of attempting to put Persian princess into European clothes were well nigh ended, for every fresh crack acted somewhat as a shock to my nervons system, I remarked, Now that tho toilet is drawing to compile tion does the princess find herself to her hking?"
 What is it you mean?" she ex- claimed. Why, the principal part is not yet begun. You do not wear your hair like this, said she as she drew up in her hand a bunch of some 30 or more narrow plaits that reached below her knees. At tho request of @ princess these uesses had of course to be all unplaited and combed out and twisted in masses of dusBy coils around her small and shapely head that was well set upon her shoulders. Her hair was as thick, as coarse and as unmanagea- ble as a horse s tail would be to dress, and as wiry also, and when it was at last, with q great deal of trouble pinned up securely it covered the entire head three times over. This finishing stroke to her toilet gave the princess intense satisfaction, and she was full of childish admiration for herself.
 That is very good, very good, " she remarked as she twisted herself, smiling, now this way, now that before the mirror. Every one would take me to be English. Now give me your hat with the long black feathers, and then I will walk down the garden to my brothers house and see if he will know me.
 She left the room in a state of ec- stasy over herself, but to return in an instant, with her fingers spread out before, exclaiming, "Khanum, khanum Qady), when you go out do you not always wear gloves?"
 For the princess to have walked even a short distance without any kind of escort and with her face un- yelled showed that enterprise was not lacking in her character. for she had never taken such a bold step in her life before, and she was but IS. The costume that she had adopted, however, gave her confidence, for she knew she would not be recog- nized.
 In spite of her admiration for her self in this costume she was in truth by no means altered for the better. In her own comparatively rough and tasteleSs dress she looked delicate and refined as compared with her eastern sisters, but immediately sho assumed a more civilized attire her great charm vanished, and her for mer attractions seemed coarse and unprepossessing.
 It was not long before the poor princess returned dejected and un- happy, with tears standing in her large brown eyes. Her brother, she told me, did not for some moments recognize her, but fancied her to be some European lady coming to make a visit to his wife. When he saw it was me, his sister, " she remarked, This countenanoe became black as the thunderclouds, and he bade mo with all haste change my dress, for he was filled with shame at seeing that a daughter of his fathers wife could so greatly bemean herself as to attempt to initiate European. Bridget Sunwell in London Queen.