WEDNESDAY’S WEDDINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3286, 4 March 1926, Page 4

WEDNESDAY’S WEDDINGS

YOUNG—ENSOM. The wedding took place yesterday at All Saints’ church, Palmerston North, of Miss Emily Ensom, of Palmerston North, to Mr Leslie Young, of Waipukurau. PASCOE—DONNELLY. The wedding was solemnised yesterday at All Saints’ church, Palmerston North, of Miss Laura Donnelly (Lower Hutt), to Mr William Pascoe (Palmerston North). VEILED COQUETTES TRAN SPA KENT COVERINGS. PIQUANT COSTUMES OP THE EAST. Every respectable woman Is veiled in the East, of course. But there are veils and veils (declares Dorothy Buck in the “Daily Mail”). You have but to stroll through the streets of Tunis to realise how differently the letter of the law may be interpreted. And, anyway, the Prophet merely mentioned that faces should be veiled. He said nothing about ankles. . . . Here, coming through the huge gateway that leads into the crowded souks, you will find a sober matron of the old school, wearing the sinister black face-veil of Tunis and heavily muffled in a clumsy white haick. Beside her walks her daughter, a slim young thing in a garb of black satin that at first sight looks like a mixture of a Venetian domino and the uniform of the Klu Klux IClan. It consists of a black skirt swinging short enough to reveal flesh silk stockings and high-heeled black patent shoes. Above this a short lace-edged black domino thrown over the head, with lace eyeholes that give full value to the brilliant eyes behind them. It is decidedly piquant, even if much more like one’s idea of an Oriental chorus at Gaiety than a modest woman of the harem. Henna’d Beauty at Algiers. This black satin affair is the latest mode of feminine Islam, but some of the older women prefer an elaborately embroidered haick and the merest whip of white chiffon ; over the face which in nowise hides the features and is in nowise intended to. In Tunisia they are not sufficiently emancipated thus to dally with Western customs, but at any race meeting in Algiers you 1 may sec such beauty, perfumed, henna'd, exquisitely dressed in European clothes, but wdth a gorgeous haick covering them, and a suspicion of ninon to draw attention to a pretty face and expose a pair of melting eyes; sitting perhaps in a covered limousine and receiving her friends in it with the utmost sansgeno. Secluded Lives a Myth. I Theoretically, an Arab woman never sees any man except her husband and the men of her own family. In practice, the young and gay ones do not, scorn to lead lives as secluded as this would suggest. Kinsfolk, as a ICaid once sadly confided to me, may be stretched to include cousins to the ninth degree of consulship, if these be young, masculine and attractive. And oven the old-fashioned women who only see their nearest male relatives are allowed, curiously, to receive the husbands of their European women ■ friends. A well-bred Arab woman is charming-—exquisitely politte, exquisitely gracious, exquisitely pret- | ty. It is difficult to believe at first (that this veneer—so far exceeding, our own in polish—usually covers) ignorance and superstition as com-, pleto as that of any Bedouin woman j of the soiLlt. j I Selling daily from if p.m. in bargain room at top of stairs at Collinson and 1 Cunninghame’s: 0 only girls’ longcloth knichors, trimmed with lace and cm- 1 broidery; suitable for girls from S to ■1:; years. .Were o/G. Now lid pair. :