Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-06-19
A PERSIAN PRINCESS.
Her Brief Experience With the European
 Style of Dress.

style or Dress.
 My friend the princess came up to
 mo in a somewhat confidential man.
 ner to ask me if l 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 a privilege as that will never
 be granted us still have a great
 wish to sec how should look in
 them, just for fun.
 Entering into tho joke, 1 led the
 way to my bedroom, but hardly 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. Tho 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 Q shock to my nervous system, remarked, Now that the toilet is drawing to compile tion does the princess find herself to her liking?"
 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 80 or more narrow plaits that reached below her knees. At the request of a princess these tresses had of course to be all unplaited and comhed out and twisted in masses of dusky coils around her small and Shapely head that was well set upon her shoulders Her hair was as thick. as coarse and as unmanagea- pleas a horse s tail would be to dress, and as wiry also, and when it was at last, with a 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. l smiling, now this way, now that, l before tho mirror. Every one | would take me to be English. Now 1 give me your hat with the long black l feathers, and then I will walk down | the garden to my brother's house and see if he will know me
 She left the room in C state of co. 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 glovesy"
 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 she a more civilized attire her 1 great charm vanished, and her for : mer attractions seemed coarse and 1nprepossessing.
 It was not long before the poor [ princess returned dejected and un- happy, with tears standing in her arge brown eyes. Her brother, she told me, did not for some moments her, but fancied her to be some European lady coming to make ! ! visit to his wife. When he saw t was me, his sister, she remarked, s his countenance became black as 8 he thunderclouds. and he bade me n with all haste change my dress, for p 10 was filled with shame at seeing a bat daughter of his fathers wife c 'ould so greatly bemean herself as o attempt to initiate a European. Sunwell in London Queen. B