Show an arabian babas toilet A royal babas first toilet in arabia consists in winding a bandage about its body after it has been bathed and perfumed the little creature is then placed on its back its arms and teet feet are straightened and the entire body is swathed to the shoulder tn in this position it demairs motionless for forty days but the bandage is removed twice a day that the child may have a bath the A arabs believe that this process will make the body straight for life under such circumstances it seems fortunate that babyhood is not a rrb period 0 d which can be remembered in after ft r y years ears for nobody would choose to buff suffer er such days of misery again even in recollection if the child be a girl on the seventh day after her birth holes usually six in number dumber are pricked in her ears and when ehe is two months old heavy gold rings are attached to them to be worn throughout her lifetime except durin during periods of mourning for relatives on the fortieth dy dey the babas head bead to is shaved this operation is considered a very important one and thirty or forty persons are witnesses of it fr fi r the performance of certain rites the disposal of the first hair is regarded as a very weighty matter it must not be burned or carelessly thrown away but buried thrown into the sea or hidden bidden in some crevice of the wall several charms are attached to its body for protection against the evil eye boys wearing tham to a certain age and girls still longer the favorite charm consists of a gold or silver locket worn on a chain |