Show VEILS VEI VES VESIn In Korea where e pre pro dominate it is hard to account for tile ot orn n of the veil The women of the well to do middle and upper classes ar are kept most sedulously guarded The latt Iatt r rare are seldom s allowed to go out at all arid amid then only at night nightA I A curious cu oU tale is told JoM to account for a feature ot ut the veils This Thi con conj j l Js of a p pair ir of dependent de and evident useless sleeves with cuffs of another color mis at the bottom Veil ie is not a pro prot i nor er word to o use for f this head coveting covering for t it is of o ot thick t ra cotton tt elf jr or rass rasa cioth and It would be ble his to see Sf anything through it It It is al always a ways whit hUe to match the other Korean garments ent As a nation from coolie tt tb mandarin they all ail wear it I The woman is obliged to push the folds of the veil vell vella I aW a r irom her hl eyes so that she may look through the aperture The tale con concerning concerning them is this Several hundred years ago when Korea was fighting the Chinese the entire KJ K army and all aU the men in the capital went to meet an attacking force to the north At the same me time another force unknown known to the Koreans approached sol from the south Since every able bodied man had already gone to the at attack attAck attack tack the city elty and the remaining inhabitants inhabitants were th tin with destruction The Korean women however like their sisters in other parts arts of the world w de devi devised vi d a plan by which they might frus true frustrate frustrate tho the enemy They The donned their hus him husbands husbands bands long white garments with the wide sleeve and gathered together marched boldly boWly toward the foe who appalled by Ute the sight eight of or such Buch an unexpected force of Koreans fled lied In haste and the city elt was saved When th the army arm returned and It was wan made known what the women had lied done it was decreed that thereafter they the should wear mens meus sleeves hanging from froni their thir veils as a 3 mark of oi honor and a ae badge e heir bravery in the national crisis cri Kven iven m in q t uncomfortable than the veils must be me tee massive headdress of the woman who acts as a bridesmaid at a a Korean wedding The of iron clad Korean etiquette demand that she shall be dressed in this way so 80 no one thinks of questioning the custom Huge masses of false f se hair switches as ai we call eRn re piled plied in a fantastic way on the unfortunate womans head till a awo I wonderful wo effect is obtained ANNA NORTH NORT NORTHEND END ND BENJAMIN I |