The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-12

dle of white woolen cloth, so arranged
 over the head and face as to leave only
 part of one eye exposed as they shuf-
 file about the streets in heeless slippers
 or ride on donkeys led by eunichs-one
 cannot judge of their 'looks" except as
 reflected in the children. Strange tc
 say some of the small folk have per ! fectly white complexions; and though
 most of them would be vastly improved l by the application of soap and water | they have the loveliest eyes imaginable
 and an expression of intelligence and
 great amiability. Babies of the middle and lower classes are carried around in
 sacks on the shoulders of their mothers, their bodies encased in little jackets. 1 like Joseph's coat of many colors, ' each So tightly girded as to remind one
 of well-stuffed sausage
 Of course the Jewish women do not
 veil their faces They are usually of
 the intense brunette type, with magni-
 ticent dark eyes and stately bearing, very handsome while young, but like
 most of this race in other parts of the
 
 age, with moustaches and excessive oil
 mess of the skin. To see African Jew
 esses at their best, one. must go through
 the Ghetto, or Jewish quarter, of the
 town one happens to be in, on the Sab
 bath (our Saturday,, when all the
 shops are closed and business of every
 kind suspended, the women and girls, in
 their gala attire, squatted on the flat
 roofs of their houses. All wear long
 straight gowns, without drapery or
 trimming of any kind, but of the rich
 est silk, in gorgeous shades and combi- nations of orange purple, crimson and green. Each dress is confined at the waist by a bold-embroidered girdle, nearly a foot wide; and the wearer is also decked with a heavy chain of pure gold, wound round and round her neck and falling far down in front, armlets of gold and silver, and many rings, both on fingers and toes. Her stockingless feet are encased in colored, pointed slip pers, which she drops off when sitting, probably to ease the pressure of the toe-rings. When abroad she wears a plain band of white linen bound about her chin, and a black silk scarf folded tightly across the forehead and falling down behind, a great jewerled orna- ment keeping it in place at the back of the head. There are fully three thou sand Jews in Morocco City, and it is said that not one of them is poor, though, of necessity, they live outward ly like beggars. Musslemen consider them "unclean animals" and enemies of o1 of insult and oppression upon them. If it is mistrusted that a son of Israel has and may have ready money in his house, the place is enevitably footed, under pretence of taXgather- ing in the name of the Sultan; and the poor fellow may considerhimself K etemely lucky if he gets off with noth- ing worse than loss of his cash and a that does not actually | cripple him for life Every night the Jews are securely locked in their own walled quarter-known as the Mellah, 1 or place of damnation, and are not per- mitted to go outside till after sunrise, | whatever happens. When abroad the | Jews must always wear black clothes, in token of misfortune and humiliation, | 1lu SO DdI6-lOOlcl, lcHl Dy dly NDniltt they be guilty of the unpardonable of | fense of sitting sacreligious shoes in the | of Holy House; while to pass | a mosque, or even to enter a street in which one is situated, means death to | the offender. Whenever q Jew meets
 true believer he must step so far | aside that by no possibility can their garments touch; and if he has occasion 70 enter the presence of any official, he must repeatedly salaam till his fore head touches the ground, kissing the lem of the rulers burnous and making other confessions of degradation. Yet he dissipated and hated Hebrews are uch useful citizens that laws have been passed forbidding them to leave the country. Nobody else can build a louse, make or mend a lock, manufac- ure gold and silver trinkets, weave ilk and woolen clotll-all of which oc- upation the lazy Moors and Arabs re- ;ard with supreme contempt. Inside heir houses, when the days work is lone and the gates of the Mellah se- urely locked for the night, the Hebrew gentleman is altogether a different haracter from the shabby and cring- ng creature to be met on the street Ie dons rich robe, long and flowing, a 'reen or pudple turban, gold -embroi- cred waistcoat and sash, ample trous- IFS caught with iewelled bands below he knees, blue silk stockings and san als of red, green or yellow morocco Ie is bountifuI, hospitably personified nd his nightly guests partake of good heer, including raki or Jewish wine.
 Speaking of the Sultan's levies on his -dutiful subjects--his reasury is located at Mequinez, It is alled Beit-el-mes (House of Funds) nd is believed to contain money, jew Is, bullion, etc, to the amount of fifty r sixty millions. Nobody knows for ertain, however, as the mysterious nd impenetrable structure is guarded fight and day by two thousand blacks. esdes, the Sultan has the uncomforta- le habit of putting to death, immedi- tely afterwards, all the persons em- loved in depositlng treasure in the Iouse of Funds, No wonder that so | lany people prefer the nomad life of $ le desert to living in the towns of Mo | )cco. To attract the Sultans notice in C ny way is generally fatal He sets | bout inquiring whether the man is |