The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23

her fingers stained red with henna, and her eyelids blackened with kohl.
 l had a good chance to see something of the Kabyle women when I made my Journey through their country in the Alt las mountains of eastern Algeria. They arc much fairer than either the Moors or the Bedouins. They belong to the same race as we do, and have blue eyes rosy cheeks and red hair. They are Moham- medans, but they do not veil their faces and as rule the Kabyle husband has but one wife. The women are allowed to go about as they please. They sometimes work in the fields and I saw many of them walking along the roads with their children, and sometimes carrying water from the wells into the villages. These kabyles are clad very plainly, with the exception of the jewelry with which they are loaded. The ordinary dress is a gown which reaches from the neck to the feet and Is fastened at the shoulder with great pin of silver or white metal On ceremonial occasions they wear gowns of red and yellow stripes, strapped in at the loins with belt of bright colored leather The sometimes wear headdress of black silkk. Their feet are usually bare.
 Among these people wives arc bought, and from $60 to $100 is a high price for good looking girl. The men usually stick to their wives, and. as they are very jealous, 1t Is by no means safe to pay them any attention.
 How would you like to figure on your sweetheart by weight, and value your bride by the pound? That is the custom among the Hebrews of Tunis. The men think woman beautiful according to her much flesh, and a likely Jew girl of 300 weight or So has no trouble in getting a husband. As maiden approaches the marriageable age she is stuffed, much after the manner of Strasburg pate-de- foie-gras goose. These Jewesses have their own way of eating to increase their fat, and their own foods for putting on flesh. One of our agricultural depart ment explorers tells me that they use certain grain which surpasses any that we have in It's fattenng qualities and also that Secretary Wilson expects to in- troduce this grain into the United States. If so. 1t will indeed be a boon to our thin scrawny girls, who worry because they cannot rise in avoirdupois I have be- fore me a photograph of the two biggest Jewesses in Tunls. They are mountains of flesh, and one of them weighs over 400 pounds.
 Wear Golden Trousers.
 These Jewesses have the homeliest cos tunes l have ever seen upon women They wear brooches. both on the street ana at home, and over them short, loose saoques whio.- Iall to the waist. Some of them have their trousers loose about the hips and tight at the calves and others wear them about even all the way down, loading them with embroidery of silver anu gold. Some pairs of breches are made entirely of gold thread, and l hear of -money-lenders' daughters who have panties which cost $200 pair. Such gar ments are reserved for home use, and they are not to be seen on the streets. Other girls have pantaloons of velvet. loaded With bands of gold and silver, a girl thus carrying a whole fortune on her trousers. They all wear jewelry, and on public occasions they come out in pearls and diamonds and gold galore,
 The Jewish men here dress like the Arabs, but the women do not veil their faces and 1t is possible to see just how the look. The most of the women have what we would call brunette complex ions' although there Is no sign of the mulatto about them. They have black hair, beautiful eyes and not infreouent- ly prominent Hebrew noses Some of them are pretty but more are not; and with their outlandish costumes the home ly ones are about the ugliest of their sex.
 Some of these women when they go out on the street wrap themselves up in cloths, but the clothes never reach 30 low as to hide their brooches. They have on high gold caps and the clothes are often fastened to these.
 Marriage Among the Jews.
 The Jewesses marry young. A good fat girl Is often welded at twelve and she becomes a mother at fourteen or fifteen. Marriages are usually preceded by a con- tract, and there Is often a forfeit put up as against divorce If the man does not carry out his contract he has to pay damages. and in the case of divorce he usually gives back half the property ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.