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candles. Then the bride and groom, 
dressed, alas, in European clothes, with 
bridal veil and orange blossoms, followed 
by the wedding guests in all the Jewish 
oriental splendor. 
When the bride passed the houses of 
her friends, the procession would halt 
while the bride’s veil was lifted, and the 
women would kiss her. Many of the 
voung girls and brides were very beauti- 
ful, and the brides seemed young—be- 
tween 15 and 17 years old. But in this 
country women develop far more rapidly 
than with us. 
JEWISH WOMEN WALKING: TUNIS 
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The wedding ring is worn on the first 
finger of the left hand, and the finger- 
nails and toes are stained red with henna, 
and on the day of her marriage her eye- 
brows are painted so that they meet over 
the nose. Over the entrance to the home 
of the newly married couple is fastened 
a gilded pair of horns and a hand of 
Fatima to keep off the “Evil Eye.” 
Saturday afternoon (the Jewish Sab- 
bath) many of the women are to be seen 
walking in the belvedere (the large park) 
in their curious costumes and _ their 
peaked golden caps. Unlike the Arab 
