The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-12
IN con THE WOMIIN
ARE DOING AWAY WITH TIKI. VEIL,
DE FRANK G.. CARPENTER.

t'o! pTlSnt-cyed falr-Skinned girls
Of America. Drop for the moment you,
hohblcshirts and peachhasket hats and
take look at your sisters Of Damascus
In faraway Syria! How would you like
to exchange your life for theirs? How
would you like to spend Your DAYS
without showing Your face to the light
of the sun? How would you like to go
about in great bag OF black silk
which is tied in at the waist so that IL
covers your form from tho head 10 the
feet except for a short, thick Veil OF
black which enables you to feel Your
way along the street? How would YOU
Ike to be penned up inFthc back of your
house, or to have Your front windows
SO latticed that YOU could sec out only
through holes as big around as lead
pencil? Aye. more. how would you like
Ito never talk to any man but one of
Your own family, and worse, never to
have any other men or boy to talk Ia
or sec you?
This is the condition of the girls OF
THIS fanatical city OF Damascus It is
the fate Of millions OF other women in
Turkey and of the female Mohammc-
cans throughout the whole world.
Among the yelled Women.
Within the past thirty years have
visited every Moslcm country on earth.
and have worn out my eyes trying to
see through the wells which hide In.
lair sex. In Morocco their faces arc
covered with cotton. and they pecp
GU through GRACE as big as Your
hnger, made by pulling the cloth slight
~ apart III front of the face. In Kai-
rouan the girls cover their. faces With
black crepe so thick that YOU cannot
tell whether they are negroes or whites.
and IN Tunis they are so shrouded that
'hey nave to lift UP their cloaks Il few
1eet In order to pick their way through
the streets. In Zanzibar the girls wear
bags which cover them to the feet. and
1helr only view OF the world is through
peepholes as big as so cent Mace
Nhle1 are hedged across with lace
netting. so that a man cannot see in.
IN Egypt the headdress comes down TO
the eEebra"s. and veil extends from
mere t0'tha knees. with the exception
% q crack for, eyes the crack be-
ing Kept open by gold OF brass spool
which rests on the bridge OF the nose.
IN G2nsiantnople the fashiona Bile Turks
src dong away with the veil or using
lhin white gauZe through witch ina
race can be plainly seen IT is thus
mar me harem OF the sultan is dress
ed, and thus the wives Of ali The rich
nlen.
In Dnmnscus
Here IN Damascus the women sticl,
TO wells of lowered muslin or blacl,
$500 anu lhey wrap themselves in
great balloon-likc cloaks If black iii,
or calico, These bulge out above ana
he'o" where ,hey are tied at the wais,
making each maiden look like Two
huge Jumps OF Sausages as iney waddlc
ATOMS ! sec hundreds OF them every
uine go through the city They
,hrong the hazaars wherc thev bob
oack ana forth as they talk with the
merchants They may be seen pick
"a 4 l. -
Or sitting on the floors oi the mos.
cues reading the Koran ana watching
,he msn 20 through their prayers.
Many Of the yelled figures are those Of
small girls They take the veil at
sltNen or twelve. and the wells arc
Kept on after marriage until death
AND then the houses: All az the NO.
ma nlfnedans have homes SD latticed
that the women cannot DC seen from,
me streets. IN some cases tba Vim.
f COWS are built out over tho sidewalks
hanging out like boxes or wooden not
Work This l. SO in the n.w ,nort
nent houses which are 1n,v ;-ninc IN
and also In The nuts or ,hc rnor. al !
th"n"ii the later seldom Lave. Win
dows eNcr0t ~ the back TIE oraira ~
lrttice is rnaGe cf canclit, ,,ienns Or
stcle ard nrenarine ther, - ..,n
cial trade fr2'o~ed i,v i,,anv TIVE
rrehts arc trc'i"ht in ~ r,anase,,
aircndH SKINNED nr 'ho l,rcIts OF don
RHvs, v'ltcN rs' hc" 60 I'll Tic streets
with ti:er leads
c,,ccr ~s-o~cc rn,-s.
1t brhncvos -. Mo'-a,o-,t.r1,r 80
= MS 70 BE strict IN her cnnduct The
husband hero ~ most Of tn. rirrts.
ard he can divorce his wis. or w!vns.
whenever he VIII He sometimes docs
30 without THINKING, and that 70 his
\ sorrow I heard OF such a oase yester
day. According TO TIE laws cf Darnas.
Gus. II 4 man wishes 10 gct ria Of he
wife ne mas only 10 say y divorce yout
I divorce youi I divorce you.'' ana the
Isl woman must leave. After she has pon.
4 however she cannot come back as q
wife until after she has been married
10 sorne one else. 10 get around this
an angry husband, releniinp and long.
ing for the cay departed arrangeS e
MARY ncr TO . friend, q dcr2Ish, or IL
sonns half crazy man. who Tor a SUI