The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-12

whites: and in Tunis they are so sfrouded that they have to lift up their cloaks a few feet in order to pick their way through the streets. In Zanzibar the girls wear bags which cover them to the feet, and their only view of the world is through peepholes as big as a 50-cent piece, which are hedged across with lace netting, so that a man cannot see in. In Egypt the headdress comes down to the eyebrows, and a Veil extends from there to the knees, with the exception of crack for the eyes, the cracl, being kept open by a gold or brass spool which rests on the bridge of the nose Tn Con- stantinople the fashionable Tuias are doing away with the veil or using thin white gauge through which the face can he plainly seen. It is thus that the harem of the Sultan is dressed, and thus the wives of all the rich mein.
 In Damascus
 Here in Damascus the women stick tn veils of lowered muslin or black crepe, and they wrap themselves in great bal loon like cloaks of black silk or calico. These bulge out above and below where They are tied at the waist, making each maiden look like two huge Jumps of sausages as they Naddle along. I sec hundreds of them every time go through
 
 they bob back and forth as they talk with the merchants. They may be seen picking their way through the side streets CT sitting on the floors of the mosques reading the Koran and watching the men go through their prayers. Many of tho yelled figures Are those of small girls. They take the veil at Il or 12, and tho veils arc kept on after marriage until death
 And then the housesl All of the Mo hammedans have homes so latticed that the women cannot be seen from the streets. In some cases the windows are built out over the sidewalks hanging out like boxes of wooden network This is so in the new apartment houses winch are now going up. and also inthe huts of the poor although inc latter seldom have windows except at the back. The ordi- nary lattice is made of canelike rushes or sticks, and preparing them is a specia trade followed by many. The rusnes are brought in to Damascus already trimmed cn the backs of donlSeys, which as they go fill the streets with their loads.
 Queer Divorce Laws
 It behooves the Mohammedan woman to be strict in her conduct. The husband here has most of the rights, and he can divorce his wife, or wives. whenever he will He sometimes does so without  thinking, and that to his sorrow. heard Of such a case yesterday. According to the laws of Damascus, if a man wishes to get rid of his wife he has only to say, II divorce you! I divorce you! divorce you.'' and the woman must leave. After she has gone, however she cannot come back as a wife until after she has been married to some one else. To get around this. an ahgry husband, relenting and longing for the dear departed arranges 10 marry her to friend. 'dervish, or to some half-crazy man, who for sum will go through the ceremony of q wed- ding and then immediately divorce. the woman, who can then be married again to her old husband. In the case referred to the man had a quarrel with his wife pnd angrily muttered the words of di- vorce. Immediately she had gone he re- pented, and thereupon brought about her riarriage with an alleged friend, upon the understanding that a divorce was to folloM the ceremony The friend, how fcver, Nfused to utter the words of di- 'yorce, sAying, T like the woman and will