Show NOT WHAT THEY WERE turkish female beauty fades with the decline of the veil since the veil has fallen into partial disuse the charm of 0 the turkish woman has also departed marion ilarion crawford tells us the yashmak is in not what it was ten years ago and has almost ceased to hide the face at all strict as the sultans ordinance is 1 there to Is not the slightest pretense of obeying it and lit in tho the gibat majority of cases a thin white veil barely covers the forehead and Is but loosely dhawn under the chin it must bo be admitted that with the disuse of that old fashioned veil a grest illusion has box disappeared from the streets of constantinople there was something very mysterious about it black eyes never looked so black and deep anti and liquid as when seen by themselves as it were between two broad bands of opaque white while in those days every yashmak yelled veiled an ideal beauty vety vei y different from the ju ugliness gliness of the pale and flaccid features which its absence now generally discloses one Is inclined to doubt whether the mirror 1 Is s in cor common arrion use in the harem of today exchange |