THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG NEWS AND VIEWS FOR WOMEN READERS Based on Dongias Fairbanks' Elton "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD" BY ACRMED ABDULLA Thomas of the Arabian Nights, by a Indeed that morning, with the help] of various servants, slaves, eunuchs, majordomos, coiffeurs, perfumers, | dressers, barbers, masseurs, slipper- bearers, turban-twisters, valets, color experts, silk experts, velvet experts, skin experts, gland experts, manicur- ists, chiropodists, chiropractors, and jewelers, the obese little descendant of tough-thewed Iranian warriors had adorned himself as became a Prince and a bridegroom. They had carefully shaved, painted, and powdered his cheeks and chin, except for cute little sidewhiskers that curled like question marks. They had trimmed, pointed, waxed, and scented his mustache. They had arched his eyebrows by plucking out the fine hairs around them with tweezers. They had dyed his hair a gorgeous indigo- blue, training two long, curly lovelocks to hang gracefully down either side of his face like a handsome frame to a handsome painting. They had enlarg. ,ed the pupils of his eyes by using an A AA NMI FIGURED SILKS Paisley figured silk. makes this simple dress with ruffles of pleated oil the color of the lightest tone in the background. They follow a spiral course' and are much more in- teresting than they would be arreng- | od fn the conventional manner. The eoverity 'of the blouse is in accord- ve with the general trend in fash- infusion 'of belladonna. They had hei i useless traveling! "THOMAS COPLEY | Carpenter. Phone 987 & wf onde =f Cee eleaning all kinds TAR | now the latter was on the threshold of "| death. ' ~ ghtened the color of his lips with the help of betel-nut juice. They had whitened his plump neck by a myster-) jous Egyptian cosmetic worth its weight in gold. They had reddened the tips of his ears by squeezing them. They had caused his teeth to shing by rubbing copper powder into the roots. They had pointed and gilt his finger- nails and toe-nails. They had stained the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet a delightful and delicate rose with Turkish henna. They had spent seven hours in twisting about his bul- let-shaped head a silken turban, blend- ing peach red with apricot-yellow, sky. blue with sea-green, the whole adorned with a cunning design of bleeding, in- terlacing lovers' hearts. They had rob- ed his stout body with simple, almost severe magnificence, in a robe of cloth-of-gold embroidered all over with white and yellow diamonds and opening over another robe of the same chaste magnificence, made of cloth-of- silver striped with purple and rose- madder and embroidered over the heart with a design of uncut emeralds that spelled out: "I love thee, Zob- eid!" in both the Persian and the Ara- bic language. His jewels--finger- rings and toe-rings and ear-rings, pen. dants and necklaces and bracelets and turban aigrettes--were the pick of his treasury; and having never used a wea- pon, in all his life except knife and fork, perhaps occasionally a toothpick, he had hung about his substantial per- son a number of wicked-looking wea- pons. For his chief barber had told him: "0 Great Shah-in-Shah! O Lion of Allah! It has been my experience in life--a life," he had smirked, "not un- trodden by narrow, dainty, scented feet of many women--that the ladies ad- mire a warrior, a hero, a clanking, rat- tling, bullying, swaggering fighting man!" He had added: "Wah! The magic, flying carpet? You will hardly need it. Your face and figure alone--without mentioning your soul--are the greatest, rarest gift in the world! Just look into the mirror and convince yourself". And the Persian had looked into the mirror--and had been convinced. The Indian Prince's conceit, while matching the other's, was more sim- ple; more stolid and hard. He was cou- sin to all the gods. In him Ganasha, the god of wisdom, was reincarnate, as was Shridat, the god of fortune, and Maya, the goddess of illusion. Having been rather a guy blade dur- ing his bachelor years, fond of wine, women, and song, he had given oath that morning that, as soon as he was married and returned from his honey- moon trip, he would be a model hus- band and model Rajah. "By Doorga, the Great Mother!" he had exclaimed. "By the Father of the Elephant's Trunk. I give solemn oath that hereafter I shall turn over a new leaf! Every day of my life I shall perform the proper duties of a Rajah as ordered in the Vedas. I shall rise before daybreak and finish my ablu- tions! I shall worship the gods; and do obeisance to the Brahmins! I shall not permit my wife, the Princess Zobeid, to contradict mel I shall listen to her advice, and then I shall go and do the opposite! I shall judge my people ac- cording to the Shastras and the Laws of Manu, keeping in subjection lust, anger, folly, avarice, drunkenness, and pride! I shall not yield to my desire for dancing, singing, playing on musi- cal instruments, gaming, and the chase! I shall refrain from sleep dur- ing daytime, from molesting men of worth and women 'of virtue and from 1 shall live such an exemplary life that future historians will refer to me as the Father of my country and the-Grand Old Man of Hindustan! And in their books these historians shall devote a ple of pages, perhaps an appendix, to the sweetness and beauty of the Princess Zobeid, whom 1 graciously permitted to share my throne and my life! Ho, Doorga! Ho, Devil Ho, Smashana Kalil" But it was the Mongol Prince's con- ceit which was most justified by fact. from Bagdad, had brought him news that Fount-in-the-Forest had done her work well. She had succeeded in giv- ing slow poison to her mistreses. 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