The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-12

| wish | could tell YOU American
girls lust how Your Well-to-do sisters
Of this side of the world are clothed.
If YOU saw 4 party of them on the
street you would think they had pick
ed up their bed blankets and started
out for q great masquerade. II YOU
were i man You could not possibly get
near enough to examine them, but n
Of my lady friends has told me just
how they are dressed. Under those
blankets they have baggy trousers
which come about half way TO the an
kle, and above these. Jackets of en-
bordiery with one Of two vests under
them. They VICAR sashes about the
waefst and undergarment5 Of fine
gauze.
At home the ladies either 90 bare
footed Or wear slippers Of velvet en-
broidered with gold. They plat their
Fnote behind the head They wear
the little gold caps ! hape ALREADY de-
scrlbcd and tic chem on With cords OF
gold thread under the hin. Those
who can afford it are loaded With Jew
elry. see little girls With earrings
almost as big around rs the bottom Of
Il tin cup. and anklets Of silver as
thick as their own little fingers.
The Arab men have gowns Of white
WOODEN material striped with silk
bound in by sashes at the waist. Tn
der this they often wear baggy trous-
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moose Of fine texture The richer men
sometimes have q sort Of an o~ve1coat
of fine navy blue cloth embroidered
with silk and made in the shape of q
burnoose which They wear over the
other burnoose. Some Of the men
wear stockings and some riding
horseback have instead long. red boots
Of the finest Morocco leather, which
are almost as soft as wool. over the
foot they have 4 shoe covering the
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spur is attached. The poorer Arabs
Wear hacks. long gowns of { night
shirt shape. nlade Of c~afnelis hair and
! wool il White ard black stripes.
Many Of the native garments are
made in Tlemcen. This town has long
been noted for its good workmanship
and its lace. hats. shaWlS and blankets
are famous. Among other garments
are some made for the Jews. II espe-
cially the bright red shaWls which
they use here for mourning.
Ncv French Towns.
The Tlemcep Of today is largely
composed Of new French buildings.
The streets are French streets. There
is 4 square IN the center Of the town
where h people meet to walk about.
and there is 4 ark outside it filled
With great plane trees and Wild olive
trees which is known as TIemcen's
Pois dc Bculgne. About SIX years ago
the city was first reached by railroad.
and it now has two rains each way
every day.
On my Way here | stopped at Sidi
Bel Abbcs. = French settlement Of 10
600 people. which has grown up with
in q few years. Sidi BeE -Abbes is
named after a Mohammedan saint, and
it has its Arab quarter today. h
city IS built in the shape of a r~ectagle
with great walls about it, and like most
Of these Algerian towns, it has its mil
itary quarter. This is inhabited by
seVeral companies Of the foreign sol
diers employed by the French to de-
fend Algeria. They are composed OF
Swiss. Poles. Germans and such other
riff-raff as can be enlisted at a few
cents 4 day. The troops there vary in
number. at times reaching as many as
5000.
Sidi Bel Abbes has its regular con-
certs by the military band: it has a
theater where they are now playing.
Boz and Cox" and also a "Cafe
Cnantant," where the songs and
dances are ever more wicked than
those Of Paris itself. Indeed things are
moving fast in this French section Of
the African continent.