article · Issue No. 8, August 1949 · p. 29

The Rose and Woman

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The rose is the favorite flower of all Arab women down through the ages.

The Arabs carried the rose to Spain... and the rose was the flower dearest to the women of Andalusia.

And if you walk today through Seville, or Granada, or Cordoba, your eye will scarcely fall on a single woman without a red rose in her jet-black hair...

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