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WOMEN OF THE EAST

11 ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS

Youthful Contours

The day of voluptuous curves has passed.
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a slim and boyish figure. You can have
a graceful, active body—the face and
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To My Many Jewish Friends
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dye their palms and soles with henna
—the very same henna which our au-
burn and fiery-headed beauties now
employ on their curly locks.
Wednesday is the day when all
marriages are performed in the Cau-
casus. Here is an instance where the
bride does not have to worry where
her bridal robe is to come from. It
is the special and holy duty of the
groom to provide this notable gar-
ment. And a noisy occasion he makes
of it! Should his friends and parents
dislike the clothes the bride has
bought with his money, they storm
and argue, until the poor bride's fa-
ther, anxious to quiet them, presents
them with double the sum. Even then
the bride's troubles are not over. Be-
fore she is permitted to don the gown,
she is taken to the ocean and submit-
ted to the indignity of an ocean bath.
Smyrna may seem a fur cry from
America, but its Jewish women are
highly intelligent and know how to
make the most of their looks. They
wear their dusky tresses loose, con-
fine the upper part of their bodies in
shapely black bodices and soften the
lines around the neck and arms with
fluffy ruffles of white lace. They can
play stringed instruments and have
mellow, pleasing voices.
Perhaps among the most beautiful
of someone else, who more than often Every gift that he brings his lady-
Jewish women of the East are the
is not of her own choosing. The love is placed in an iron vessel where
Hindus of Kashmir. They are well-
choice of bridegroom is left solely to it is kept until the goldsmith reports
formed and fresh-looking with a
the father. As soon as a girl reaches upon its value and weights. Nor, hav-
clearly defined cast of features. Their
the ripe age of 14 or 15 her father ing judged that the presents are all
skin is dark olive, in which their small
looks about for a presentable son-in- bona fide, could the groom hasten his
white teeth shine like pearls and their
law. When he finds one he makes all
black eyes glow like living coals.
arrangements with the young man's
The women of the Jewish colony
father, and on a bright Tuesday—the
of Kai-Fung-Foo, China, provide the
ceremony is generally held on Tues-
answer to any contention that there
days—a marriage takes place.
is such a thing as a distinctly Jewish
With the exception that two days
type of face. These Chinese women,
before that auspicious moment, when
Jewesses of the oldest extraction, are
the couple meets at the synagogue,
exactly like the other natives. Their
where the bride kisses 10 times that
hands and feet are small, their hair
portion of the Bible containing the
long and black and their eyes almond
Decalogue, the young people who are
shaped. To the extent they still re-
to live together all their lives do not
tain a few Jewish practices, but for
even know or see each other.
the most part they have adopted the
Those of our modern girls who
customs of their neighbors. Levirate
spend so much of their time and
marriages—the marriage of a widow
money in the Turkish baths trying to
to her husband's unmarried brother
retain a slim and girlish figure, when
—is
a custom which still exists among
decidedly
toward
their tendency 13
these Jews and has even been adopt-
avoirdupois, should go to Tunis. There
ed
by
some Chinese of non-Jewish 1
they could glory in comfortable
birth.
plumpness. A bride of less than 200
The Biblical type of Semitic beau-
pounds is most undesirable, while
ty of Ruth and Esther, the beauty
every pound above that weight adds
that often reaches a point of almost
charm and prestige.
impossible rivalry for dignity and no-
And yet these Tunisian damsels
bility of cast and bearing, is the in-
have other charms. Their eyes are
heritance of the Spanish and Anda-
large, black and luminous; their hair
lusian Jewish women. The regularity
heavy and blue-black; their faces
of their features resembles chiseled
pleasantly round and their features
and expressions exceptionally viva- A TATTOOED JEWESS OF BISK- marble, the softness and radiance of
RA,
ALGERIA
the eye is full of soulful expression,
cious. The divided skirt, or panta-
while the carriage and poise of the
loon arrangement of costume, prob-
betrothed to the rabbi and be mar- body bespeaks lofty pride and hau-
ably had its origin among them, for
ried. Seven.days must be consumed
skirts in the American sense of the
teur.
for the marriage ceremony, during
word are unknown.
which rituals are held continually and
Nor are they without recreations!
the poor couple taken back and forth
Every Friday afternoon, regardless
It is meritorious for witnesses to
from the synagogue to the house.
of wind or rain, athletic examples of
And in Bagdad, that city of dreams come forward and testify, if they
womanhood carry a small earthen jar
have knowledge of the facts, rather
and romances, the ceremony takes
containing a white wash of slaked
than to say, "Why should I be in-
just as long, with the added custom
lime to the cemetery. There, with
that on the night before the wedding volved in it?" for "When the wicked
the aid of a brush, they cleanse the
the bride and all her friends must perish there is shouting."—Talmud.
tombstones of their departed rela-

And the Jewish girls of America tires. The dead are truly among
them.
complain!
No groom could present his bride
In Daghestan a beautiful face is of
only partial advantage to women be- with an imitation ring in Ceylon.
cause in the presence of men you
have to keep it covered. Places like
Rector's and Shanley's would be fail.
ures in Daghestan. They don't per-
mit women to at at the same table
with men. You have to eat the scrap..
pings in your own little corner. You
don't even have the consolation of
a newspaper. The only committee on
information meets at the well where
the fair daughters of the Daghestan
Jews meet for the ostensible purpose
of drawing water, but in all honesty
to find out the news of the day.
There's one thing, though, you
could enjoy in Daghestan—a good
ry. Every now and then the women
gather on some large, fiat roof, seat
t hemselves in a circle and have a wild
weeping orgie for the dead and de-
parted. They tear their hair, bite
their nails, rock back and forth in
agony and wail loudly.
There couldn't be such a person as
a "grass widow" in India. When a
woman marries she is labeled. She
must wear a gold chain with a pe-
culiar coin in the center as an indica-
MATRON FROM ANDALUSIA
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Detroit a Happy and Pros-
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