two of its corners in her hands lest it fly off with the wind, and leaving an opening around her face, itself hidden behind the "sitara."

So the Yemeni woman appears as she walks the streets and alleys of the cities, sweeping up the dust with her trailing hems — like a great bundle: were she standing still, you could not tell whether she was coming or going.

The village woman inclines to black, or to gray verging on black, and to thick stuffs. The city woman chooses gay colors — above all red and violet — and sheer silken stuffs.

The village woman goes mostly barefoot. The city woman wears a slipper like the slippers of our own villagers, and sometimes puts on the ordinary man's shoe; only rarely does she put on the low-heeled woman's shoe. Certain merchants bring in men's and women's shoes from Aden.

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For perfume the Yemeni woman mostly contents herself with attar of roses or rose-water, and with incense. Rarely does the Yemeni woman use the Frankish perfumes whose use is so widespread in the other Arab lands.

She has a passionate liking for ornaments wrought of gold and silver and set with rubies, carnelian, and coral. And Yemeni carnelian — as is well known — is the finest and most beautiful of the world's kinds of ruby.

For adornment the Yemeni woman mostly contents herself with henna, with which she dyes her

hands and her feet; with kohl; and with the penciling of the eyebrows. She uses neither powder nor rouge at all.

Among the arts of adornment peculiar to the Yemeni woman is the placing of two small rods of silver at her temples, pointing forward, into which she gathers red roses and sweet basil.

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In Yemen — above all in the mountain regions — there is a minority of Jews numbering at most some fifty thousand, ten thousand of them in Qa' al-Yahud, which forms the western quarter of Sanaa.

The Jewish woman there differs from the Muslim woman in her form and her dress, and in her manners and her customs; for the Jewish women enjoy a fuller share of fair complexion, of health, and of tallness of stature.

The Jewish woman, like the Muslim, wears the trousers, the "zanna," and the "qarqush." But to the "qarqush" she adds a border hung with silver fringes that covers her eyebrows and part of her eyes.

The Jewish woman inclines, like the village woman, to black, or to gray verging on black. But the Jewish woman is, on the whole, cleaner than the village woman in her dress and in her house.

In the coming issue of "The Woman's Voice" I shall tell the gracious readers of the manners and customs of the Yemeni woman.