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  154               THEE WISCONSIN PA'RMER.

        ribdal. Baths of Aib LaFes.         Mhe domgl     Mleunt Ketal to
smpletons".
    On subsequent and    eeriag inquiry         Theodore Parker, In a ermon
on Revivals,
 among Arab ladies, I found out hou it was that says -
 the bride's ees looked eo lustrous. I learned  "No man is complete
without the culture of
 that girls we prepared for marriage with a the religious lement; no high
faculty is per-
 very great deal of ceremony. There are wo- feet o itoout help from that.
I see great nat-
 men who make the beautifying of brides their uraliats without It, great
politicians, great art-
 especial profession.                        lsts; not great tsom Nay, their
special science,
   A widow woman, named Angelina, is the politics, art, is leo philosophic,
statesmanlike,
 chief artist in this department of art in Haifa. sethetic, for lack of this
wholeness and
 She uses her scissors and tweezers freely and thorough health within the
man's interior.
 skillfully to remove superfluous hair, and trains The nutes of music, ground
out on a hand or-
 the eyebrows to an arched line, perfecting it gan in the street, tell me
if their composer had
 with black pigments. She prepares an ahe- ever listened to the choiring
of these birds of
 sive plaster of very strong sweet gum, and ap- Paradise.
 plies it by degrees all over the body, letting it  "When I see a man,
else grand and beauti-
 remain on for a minute or more, then she tears ful, with transcendent mind
and conscience
 it off quickly, and it brings away with it all and affections too, but lacking
this ultimate
 the soft down or hair, leaving the skin quite finish of religion, I long
to plant therein the
 bare, with an unusually bright and polished soul of piety, which shall complete
the whole
 appearance, much admired by Orientals. The and so make perfect every part-mastering
the
 face requires very careful manipulstion. When world of time but not disdaining
it."
 women have once submitted to this promess,
 they look frightful if from time to time they
 do not repeat it; for the hair never grows as        WIT   AND     WISDO
    .
 soft and fine again. Perhaps this is one of the
 reasons why aged Arab women, who have quite  A PRACTICAL PflLOSOPHEa.-Many
a glori-
 given up all these arts of adornment, look so
 haggard and witch-like.  In some instances, ous speculation has failed for
the same good
 this ordeal slightly irritates the skin and  reason that the old Texan ranger
gave when
           thi orea slghly rrtats te kin ad pr-he was asked why he didn't
buy land when it
fumed sesame or olive oil is applied, or cooling  D ivas a skedly h  did
b u y  nd  ont
lotions of elder-flower water are used.   taking eight thousand acres one'st,"
said old
  The bride invites her friends to accompany Joe, mournfully.  "You
see, two of the boys
her to the public bath previous to the wedding came in one day from an Indian
hunt, without
day, and sends to each one a packet of henna, any shoes, and offered me their
titles to the
two or three pieces of soap, and two wax can- two leagues just below here
for a pair of
dIes. Angelina is generally the bearer of the boots." "  For a
pair of boots!" we exclaim-
message and of these article., which are al- ed. " Yes, for a pair of
boots for each league. "
ways to be paid for. I have now and then ac- "But why on earth did you
not take it?  It'd
cepted such invitations,                    be worth one hundred thousand
dollars to-day.
  Bridal parties assemble and sometimes pass Why didn't you give them the
boots?"  "Jest
three successive days iu the luxury of the because I didn't have the boots
to give," said
Turkish bath. Pipes, sherbet, coffee, and oth. old Joe, as he took another
chew of tobacco,
er refreshments are served, and songs are sung quite as coatented as if he
owned two hundred
in honor of the bride, who is, of course, attend- leagues of land.
ed by Angelina, and forms the centre of at-
traction. Her hair is unbraided, she is slowly  SW Somebody says that the
oldest husband-
disrobed, and then, with her loins slightly ry he knows of is the marrying
a widower in
girded with crimson silk, .he is mounted ot clover with a widow in weeds.
high clogs, and led through halls and passages
gradually Increasing In temperature, with fbun-  ir Favorites are like sun-dials;
no one
tains overflowing their ,marble floors; she o looks at them it they are in
the shade.
placed on a marble platform, near to a jet of
hot water; fuller's earth is rubbed on her head,  ' A man might frame and
let loose a star
and she is lathered with soap and brushed with to roll in its orbit, and
yet not have done so
a handful of tow; then hot water is poured memorable a thing before God "
he who lets
over her freely, she is swathed in long towels go a golden-orbed thought
to roll through the
and by slow degrees conducted Wbk to a more generations of time.
motlerste temperature, and lastly to a fountain  S   No man can leave a better
legacy to the
of cool water-her oompanions in the meantime world than a well educated family.
undergoing the same process. Then, shroudled
in muslin, crape, or linen, they sit together,  S  The proper education of
children is a
smoking. until they are rested and refreshed  far better endowment for them
than the lagest
-Xis Rogers.                                material estate.



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