The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-01-04
P5RE1TY FAoEs gEAIND Wells.
Moorish Women Sometimes Let These
Screens FALL

Screens FALL
Writing about Moorish women, Rich
ard Harding Davis says: "There is
something continually interesting in
the mutlied figures of the women.
They make you almost ashamed of the
uncovered faces of the American wom-
en- in the town, and, in the lack of any
evidence to the contrary, you begin to
believe every Moorish girl you meet is
as beautiful as her eyes would make it
appear that she is.
"Those of the girls whose faces saw
were distinctly handsome: they were
the women benjamin Constant paints
in his pictures of Algiers, and about
whom Pierre Lott goes into ecstasies
in his book on Tangiers.
1.-The robe or cloak, or whatever the
thing is they affect, covers the head
like hood, and with one hand they
hold one Of the folds in front of the
face as high as their eyes, The only
times ever saw the faces of any OF
them were when occasionally eluded
Mohamed and ran off with little
guide called Isaac, the especial pro-
tector of two American women, who
farmed him out to me when they pre-
ferred to stay in the hotel.
''lIe isap particularly beautiful youth,
and l noticed that whenever he was
with me the cloaks of the women
had a fashion of coming undone, and
they would lower them for an instant
and look at Isaac, and then replace
them severely upon the bridge of the
nose. Then Isaac would turn toward
me with shy, conscious smile, and
then blush violently. Isaac says the
young men of Tangiers can tell wheth-
cr or not a girl is pretty by looking at
her feet. It Is true that their feet are
bare, but it struck me as somewhat
reckless test for selecting bride"
H0w Lawmakor Avoided Telling . d.
rect Lis.
"Some Of our lawmakers" said q
veteran lobbyist, who had had cxper-
ience in many capitals, "have very
curious consciences remember on
one occasion that 1t became neces-
sary to have certain man In certain
state legislature on our sile in little
legislation of Importance. and it was my
duty to look after him. | did so, with
various attentions, including wines,
dinners, and SO on, and at last. as
couldn't fix him, ] pumped thousand
dollar bill at him. My, my, but he was
hot
No man can brlbe me, sirl No man
can bribe me, he fairly yelled, and he
tore up and down in such violent
manner that discreetly pocketed my
thousand and left him. The next day
~ don't know, of course, how it could
! have happened--one or two newspapers
that didn't like my man published an
intimation that the lobbyists were
taking care Of him Then he was hot
ter than ever, and the next night sent
. lady lobbyist in my employ to soc
him.s She came back 10 ma in az honr
without the thousand dollars and said
he was all right Then | Stw him, ard
the next day he had card in all the
papers to the effect that he had repeiled
with scorn the advances of lobbyist,
and that he had accepted q bribe from
no man. When the bill came up he
voted with US and no comment was
made because he had been on the fence
anyway and nobody, except the few,
knew how he would vote. All the same,
he took roundabout way 10 avoid tell
ing a straight lie. didn't hep" and the
lobbyist laughed. Detroit Frce Press