manners, and note their style of dress. As in more civ. ilized countries, the ladies appear at church attired in their richest and most showy apparel. Only a few of the Christian women wear the veil; but, as a custom and an ornament, they envelop themselves in the elegant silk izar, which is held together at the chin by the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, so as quite to cover the face. Their fondness for jewelry is displayed in the excess of their ornaments, which are numerous and showy. But in nothing more are the Christian women distinguished from their sisters of the Moslem faith than in their dress and ornaments. The street attire of Moslem women is extremely plain, and never attractive. The veil is universal with them, and constantly worn when in public. Those of the class wear the yasmak, made of stiff black horse-hair, which imparts an air of poverty and gloom. And so completely are the rich and the poor disguised by the veil, that a husband can not recognize his wife on the street. Those who are allied to the Arab race, whether by blood or habits of long intercourse, have a passion for adorning their per sons with blue stains, that are not only indelible, but most forbidding in appearance. They stain their lower lip with the deadly hue, their ankles with anklets, their wrists with bracelets, their breasts with wreaths of flow ers, and their necks with a zone, in imitation of some beautiful necklace. And this work of decorating the female form in the latest approved style is performed by professional artists in Bagdad.

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But there is one ornament worn by both men and women of which none are proud. It is to them what the "Aleppo button" and the "Delhi boil" are to the people of those more distant cities. It is a frightful ulcer that appears on the lip, on the nose, on the chin, or on the