Where Wives Stay at Home.
During the first year of married life a wife in Algiers is not supposed to cross the doorstep, and many a wife never does so from the moment she enters the home of her husband as a bride until the day of her burial. Others venture out only on Fridays (the Arab Sunday), and then, attended by their maids, they go to the cemeteries behind the mosques, presumably to bewail the dead. As all are in white flowing robes, they resemble a company of gh< .si
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20477, 1 December 1934, Page 20
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