TWO DESERT QUEENS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)

TWO DESERT QUEENS.

BEAUTY PARLOUR VISITED. PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM. Pilgrimages to the dentist and the hairdresser have brought to Jerusalem two queens from the seclusion of their harems in the desert. Thoy are the wives respecS V ® y ?L KI ,?S AH of the . Hed i az and the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania. The emir's wife, who has been drawn to Jerusalem's only beauty specialist, has succumbed to the scissors, and the fir*t lady of Transjordania will soon return to her husband bobbed and perhaps even shingled.

Ihe Queen of the Hedja/, aware, perhaps, of the difficulties of her hardpressed husband at Jeddah, where he is besieged by Sultan Ibn Saud, has undergone all the treatment prescribed in the "beauty parlour," but she did not go so as having her hair bobbed. Society in Jerusalem is full of speculation regarding the attempt of the two queens to enhance their beauty. It is ever, said that the wife of the emir is determined to look younger and more beautiful than the most recent rival introduced into the palace by Abdullah. No male eye, except those of the few eunuchs among the retinue of servants, has caught even a glimpse of the desert queens. They live in utter seclusion in a large house belonging to the Greek Patriarch on the outskirts of Jerusalem. English and American women are helping the queens to while away their time between trips to the hairdresser and the aentist.

The wives of the two desert rulers, who are brothers, make daily trips to town in closed motor-cars, with white curtains drawn as an added protection. The» Queen of the Hedjaz, a Constantinople heiress, is said to be a woman of pride and' distinction, while the wife of the Emir Abdullah is declared to be no Levantine at all, but purely Bedouin.