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Show Persian City Leads in Production of Henna An Important industry of Yezd, Persia, Per-sia, is the manufacture of henna. This product is used to wash and color the hair and to stain t lie linger nail? red yes.' 'many people here have red finger nails; I saw colored latuhs. and several sev-eral iiorses whose manes and fetlocks were dyed fox red with lienna. Henna leaves come from the south, principally from the Ban) district, and Yezd' -supplies all Persia and the surrounding sur-rounding countries with this dye. The 30 or. more henna mills in the city are so completely Inclosed that it Is difficult diffi-cult to see what goes on within. In the late evening a camel, covered with henna . dust, citrates the mill, plodding tn a circle in the half dark ness. A small round basket covers his eyes to prevent him from getting dlzzv. One receives an impression of unreality, un-reality, of something bt ought from another an-other world. The mill is very primitive, standin-about standin-about six feet high, while the mill' stone and the circular path around it are sunken. Everything is covered with henna dust. From time to time a little boy shovels the powder into heavy Jugs.-Hernhard Keilermann Id Berliner Tngeblatt (Living Age) |