Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-28
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special Correspondence.

city Of Morocco Nov 2.-SInce little
Is to be seen Of Mohammedan women
except q shapeless bundle OF white
wooden cloth, 30 arranged over the
head and face as to leave only part Of
one eye exposed, as they shuttle about
the streets In heelless slippers, or ride
on donkeys led by eunuchs, one cannot
Judge Of their looks" except as re-
iected In the children Strange to say,
some of the small folk have perfectly
white compilations, and though most
Ct them would be vastly improved by
the application Of soap and water, they
have the loyellest eyes imaginable and
en- expression Of intelligence and great
amiabilty. Babies Of the middle and
lower classes are carried around In
sacks, on the shoulders Of their moth
crs, their bodies encased In little jack
cts, like Joseph's coat of "many coli
ors," each so tightly gIrded as to re-
mind one of a well-stuffed sausage.
OF course the Jewish women do not
ven their faces They are usually Of
the intense brunette type, with magnin-
cent dark eyes and stately bearing, very
handsome while young, but like most
OF their race In other parts OF the
world inclined to take ON fat at middle
age, with moustaches and excessive
cillness Of the skin. TO see African
Jewesses at their best, one must so
through the Ghetto, or Jewish quarter,
c' the town one happens to be in on the
sabbath tour Saturday,, when all the
shops are closed and business Of every
kind suspended, the women and girls
In their gala attire, squatted on the
fat roofs Of their houses, All wear long
straight gowns, without drapery or
trimming Of any Kind, but Of the rich
opt SILK, In gorgeous shades and combi-
nations OF orange purple, crimson and
sreen, Each dress Is confined at the
waist by gold -embroldered gIrdle,
nearly a foot wide; and the wcarer Is
also declied with q heavy chain Of pure
EOld, wound round and round her neck
and falling far down I'm front. armlets
Of gold and silver, and many rings both
on fingers and toes. Her Btockngess
feet are encased IN colored, pointed
slippers, which she drops off when sit
ting, probably to ease the pressure Of
the toe-rings When abroad she
wears a plain band Of white linen bound
ehout her chin, and black silk scarf
folded tightly across the forehead and
railing down behind, great jeweled
ornament keeping II in place at the
back Of the head. There are fully three
thousand Jews In Morocco city, and II
IS said ,.lat not one Of them Is poor,
though, Of necessity they live out
Wardly like beggars Musselmen con-
slder them "unclean animals and enc
mics of God, and therefore heap every
species of Insult and oppression upon
them. II II Is mistrusted that a son
Of Israel has prospered and they have
ready money in his house, the place Is
inevitably looted, under pretence of
tax gathering In the name Of the sui
tan, and the poor fellow may consider
himself extremely lucky IL he gets off
with nothing worse than loss Of his
cash and bostinadong that does not
0ctuSlly cripple him for life Every
1ight the Jews are securely locked In
their own walled quarter, known as the
Mellah, or place of damnaton, and are
not permitted to go outside TIL
after sunrise, whatever happens.
When abroad, the Jews must always
wear black clothes In token of mis-
fortune and humiliation; and go bare
footed, lest by any chance they be gull
ty of the objectionable offence of sit
ting sacreligious shoes In the vicinity
Of holy house; while TO pass a
mosque, or even to enter street In
which one Is situated, means death
to the offender. Whenever Jew meets
a true believer" he must step so far