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from their necks, that I to throw these into the greatest notorious that Palestine availed it-
self of all the advantages of Egypt, '
amongst which the rose in every
variety was one. Fium, a province,
,
of
the
happiest
form,
by
which
e
the Hebrew necklaces war
V But
t always composed of pearls, o r means a reticulation, or trellis- of Central Egypt, which the an-
cients call the Garden of Egypt,'
,'
work,
was
accomplished,
of
the
8 pearls only: sometimes it wa
custom to interchange th a most brilliant coloring, which was distinguished for innumerable
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species of the rose, and especially
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brought
into
powerful
relief
the
...E arts with little golden bulbs o
for those of the most balsamic order
color of t es in.
7 : cries: sometimes they were i dazzling
is possible that, in the general and for the most costly prepara-
. ; - ended with the precious stones.
tions from it. The Talmud not only
a
d at other times the pearls were , rage for ornaments of gold which tions
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speaks generally of the mixtures
, 2 ung two and two, and their , p. oesessed the people of Palestine
made by tempering it with oil O.
the
a
•es
of
excessive
lux-
2 5 autiful whiteness relieved by the , "ring
is
ury, the beauties of Jerusalem may 135). but expressly cites (ii.11) a
terposition of red coral.
I hue adopted gilt sandals with gilt peculiar rose-water as so costly an
:7 Next came the bracelets, of gold fastenings, as the ladies of Egypt essence that from its high price
ivory, and fitted up at the open did. it is
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possible also that the alone it became impossible to intro-
7 de with a buckle or enamelled , Rehr( ic ladies adopted at one time, duce the use of it into the ordinary
.; asp of elaborate workmanship. in
exchange for the sandal,
medical practice. Indea-d this last
E. = h ere bracelets were also occasion- entire foot,
onsideration, and the fact that the
ly composed of gold or silver, pen that covered the
unusual for such as were once worn at Baby- highly-prized quintessence cannot
read; and it was not
be
obtained except front an extra-
lon•
and
are
still
to
be
seen
on
ga= series of them to ascend from
many of the principal figure and,
s on ordinar• multitude of the rarest
e wrist to the elbow. From the the monuments of Persepolis;
roses, forbid us to suppose that
asp, or other fastening of the if this were really so, ample scope even women of the first rank in Je-
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acelet, depended a delicate would in that case have been ob- rusalem could have made a very
ain-work or netting of gold and tamed for inventive art: variations liberal use of rose-water. In our
t
fes- without end might then have been times Savory found a single phial
some instances miniature fes-
s ons of pearls. Sometimes
the devised on the fashion or the ma- of it in the place of its manufacture
id chain-work was exchanged for terials of the subject; and, by valued at four francs. As to the
ttle silver bells, which could be means of color, embroidery, and oil of roses, properly so called,
sed, upon occasion, as signals of infinite combinations of jewelry which floats in a very inconsider-
w arning or invitation to a lover. : and pearls, an
able quantity upon t he surface of
unceasing stimula-
di-tilled rose-water, it is certain
This bijouterie for the arms [inn of novelty applied to the taste
aturally reminded the Hebrew ' of the gorgeous, but still sensual that the Hebrew ladies were not ac-
quainted with it. This preparation
s dy of the ankle bells, and other I
a nd barb
voiles q ue, Asiatic.
can be obtained only front the bal-
miler ornaments for the feet and
The veil, of various texture-
samic roses of Fiona of Shires, of
gs. These ornaments consisted [coarse or fine, according to cir-
artly in golden belts, or rings, cumstances—was thrown over the Kerman, and of Kashmire, which
urpass all the roses of the earth
. s my
hick, descending from above the' head by the Hebrew lady, when she surpass
nkle, compressed the foot in verb was unexpectedly surprised, or in power and delicacy of odor; and
it
is a matter of absolute certainty,
us parts, and partly in shells and when a sudden noise gave reason
and incontrovertibly established by'
.—. ttle jingling chains, which de-
to expect the approach of a stran- the celebrated Langley, that this oil,'
ended so as to strike against clap- ger. This beautiful piece of drat).
era fixed into the metallic belts. ery, which flowed back in massy w hich even in the four Asiatic coun-
he pleasant tinkle of the golden folds over the shoulders, is partic- tries just mentioned ranks with
the greatest rarities, and in Shires
elts in collision, the chains rat- ularly noticed by Isaiah, as holding itself is valued at its weight in gold,
Mg, and the melodious chime.of an indispensable place in the ward-
ttle silver ankle-bells, keeping robe of his haughty countrywo- was dscovered by mere accident, on
i me with the motions of the foot, men; and in this it was that the occasion of some festival solemnity
node an accompaninient so agree-'' enamoured Hebrew woman sought in the year 1612.
Pearl Ear-rings Most Popular.
ble to female vanity that the' . the beloved of her heart.
tately daughters of Jerusalem,
Of the Hebrew ornaments fur the To what I said about the Hebrew
with their sweeping trains flowing throat, some true necklaces, in the eer-ornaments, I may add:—
fter them, appear to have adopted m o dern sense, of several rows, the
I. That sometimes, as Best re-1
sort of measured tread, by wise outernutst of which descended to marked of the Ilindoo dancing girls,'
f impressing a regular cadence ' dm breast, and had little pendulius their ears were swollen from the'
the music of their feet. The cylinders of gold (in the poorer innumerable perforations drilled in-
a po n th
hams of
gold were
uxury
advanced
for exchanged
strings of . as classes, of copper), so contrived as to them to support their loads o f
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make a jingling sound on the trinkery.
pearls and jewels, which swept in to
2. That in the large pendants of
Ica.;[ iiiiiiootrieonproofp.t.hoey pge,TIsdoenn; stocky,
o is about the feet an d
s naky
coral which the Hebrew ladies were
nkles.
accustomed
to attach to their ears,
or throat-hands, fitted so close as
This, like many other iwculiari- to produce in the spectator an un- either in preference to jewels, or in
ties in the llebrew dress, had its
alternation
with
jewels, they par-
asi,sea rnt
r,ann,dt hi(n. T tahi e .
rigin in a circumstance of their pLe
ticularly delighted in that config-
uration
which
imitated
a cluster of
arly nomadic life. It is usual with ; mud (vi
. 13), until reomciled by
he Bedouins to lead the camel, ' use, to produce an actual feeling of grapes.
when disposed to be restive, by a constriction approaching to sults-
3, That, in ear-rings made of
rope or a belt fastened to one of cation. Necklaces were, from the gold, they preferred the form of
the forefeet, sometimes to both; earliest times,
favorite ornament drops, or off globs and bulbs.
-I. That of all varieties, however,
and it is also a familiar practice to of the male sex in the East, and ea-
soothe and to cheer the long-suf- pressed the dignity of the wearer, of this appendage, pearls main-
fering animal with the sound of a s we see in the instances of Joseph. tained the preference amongst the ,
little bells, attached either to the of Daniel, etc.; indeed, the gold ladies of Palestine, and were either
neck or to one of the forelegs. chitin of oilier, still the badge of strung upon a thread, or attached
Girls are commonly employed to civic (and, until lately, of military) by little hooks—singly, or in groups
lead the camels to water; and it dignities,•is no more than the outer- according to their via'. This taste
naturally happened that, with their most row of the Oriental necklace. was very early established amongst
lively fancies, some Hebrew or Phil of Alexandria, and many the Jews, and chiefly, perhaps
Arabian girl should be prompted 'other writers, both Persia and Ar- through their intercourse with the
to repeat, on her own person, what ahian, give us some idea of the MI- Midianiten, amongst whom we find
had so often been connected with portant,. attached by the women of the great emirs wearing pearl or.'
an agreeable impression in her Asia to this beautiful ornament, naments of this class.
the extraordinary money
mute companions to the well. and
Dressing Milady's Hair.
It is probable, however, that aft- . value which it sometimes
es bore; n d,
Whether the ladies of Palestine
erwards, having once been intro- from the ease of the necklace of had upon their toilette a peculiar
duced, this fashion was supported gold and amber in the 15th Odys- comb for parting the hair, another
and extended by Oriental jeal- say Iv. 158), combined with many for turning it up, etc.; as likewise
ousy. For it rendered all clandes- other instances of the same kind, whether these combs were, as in an- ,
tine movements very difficult in , there ran he no doubt that it wan cient Rome, made of box-wood or
women; and, by giving notice of the neighboring land of Phoenicia of ivory, or other costly and emu.
their approach, it had the effect of fr,an which the Hebrew women oh- priate material, all these are ques-
preparing men for their presence, Maud their necklaces and the prat- tions upon which 1--am not abbe
and keeping the road free from all tn ., of wearing them. upon my honor, to communicate the
spectacles that could be offensive
The Price of Perfumes Then.
least information. But from the
to female delicacy.
Ti the lowest ot the several con- general silence of antiquity, proph-
From the Ilebrew Bedouins this centric circles which composed the ets and all, upon the subject of
custom passed to all the nations of , necklace was attached a little box, Hebrew combs, my own private ,
Asia—Medes, Persions, Lydians, exquisitely wrought in silver or opinion is that the ladies used their
= Arabs, etc.—and is dwelt on with gold, sometimes an onyx phial of fingers for this purpose, in which
— peculiar delight by the elder Ara- dazzling whiteness, depending to case there needs no mere be said
=I bic poets. That it had spread to the bosom or even to the cincture, on the subject of Hebrew comb.
= the westernmost parts of Africa and filled with the rarest aromas The combs, being usually of ivory
= early in the Christian times we and odorous spices of the East. in the Roman establishments, were
=I learn from Tertullian who (fool- What were the favorite essences costly,.and might breed disputes;
=1 ish man) cannot suppress his as- preaerved in this beautiful opium- but the fingers were a dowry of na-
when sleeping, they migh t possible varieties of convolution,
ic en
and to carry them on to a nexus
ye mementoes of their pomp.
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1 tonishment that the foolish women tiage to the female costume of l'al- tore, and cost nothing.
Before, however, the hair rece•iv-
of his time should bear to inflict satin, it is not possible at this dis-
such compression upon their ten- tance of time to determine with cer- ed its final arrangement from the
der feet. Even as early as the tainty—Isaiah having altogether hands of the waiting maid, it was
times of Herodotus, we find, from neglected the case, and Hosea, who held open and dishevelled to receive
his account of a Libyan nation, appears to allude to it (ii.I II, hay- the fumes of frank-incense, ohx's-
that the women and girls univer- ing only once distinctly mentioned wood, cassia, costroary, anti other
sally wore copper rings about it (ii. 20). However, the Talmud odorous woods, gums, balsams, and
their ankles. And at an after per- particularizes musk, and the de- spices of India, Arabia, or Pales-
tine—placed upon glowing embers,
iod these ornaments were so much lightful oil distilled from the
cherished by the Egyptian ladies
aromatic malabathrum of in vessels of golden fretwork. It
that, sooner than appear in public Ilindostan. TO these we may ven- is probable also that the Hebrew
without their tinkling a n k I e- ture to add oil of spikenard, myrrh, ladies used anther, bisam, and the
chimes, they preferred to bury balsams, attar of roses, and rose- musk of Thibet; and, when fully
themselves in the loneliest apart- water, as the perfumes usually arranged, the hair was sprinkled
contained in the Hebrew scent- with oil of nard, myrrh, oil of cin-
ments of the harem.
namon, etc. The importance at-
Finally, the fashion spread par- pt•ndatits.
Rose-water, which I am the first I ta-hed to this part of the Hebrew •
tinily into Europe—to Greece
even, and to polished Rome--in so to mention as a Hebrew perfume, ' toilette stay be collected indeed
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The first rude sketch of the He-
brew sandal may be traced in that
little tablet of undrest hide which
the Arabs are in the habit of tying
beneath the feet of their camels.
This primitive form, after all the
modifications and improvements it
has received, still betrays itself to
an attentive observer in the very
latest fashions of the sandal which
Palestine has adopted.
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lion. was absolutely desperate;
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