Show haar the experience al a l latent in the alvea of many icom in some eastern countries children hair is not cut until they are tea or twelve years of age ohp girls then being considered marriageable up to that time it is coiled on top of the head and adorned with fresh flowers when the great day for cutting comes there is a errand ceremony and much feasting one who was present at a royal hyjer cutting says the pittsburgh dissat eh tells us that the rem was robed in long flowing of silk and lace confined at the wy by a golden girdle iier long hair coiled for the last time was fastena d with diamond pins which gleamed and glittered among fresh whito fla wars and green leaves uko pearly diopa of morning dew there in the pros aneo of the ladies her father and an officiating priest surrounded by her hand maidens some two hundred in number she knelt while prayers were chanted I 1 then the beautiful ban unbound glicr royal father dipping his fingers in rosewater roso water and drawing taco carelessly over her head about an eighth of an inch of threw it into a golden basin depe atin nac the same time on 0 great placed ready to receive them jewels and gold the priest cut th next piece her mother the next andio on ach guest serving in turn litof lady was shorn all gave costly s intended for her marriage dower princes ministers of state and all sorts who waited in the outer courts sending in their contributions by the attendants the day ended in and of firework |