Show i E I LATEST L FADS SHOCK Egyptian Princess Goes Unveiled and Clad in Latest Costumes No Longer Envelops Herself as If fof Burial and Khedive Throws All Written Protests In WasteBasket Waste-Basket Cairo EgyptA few days ngo con servatlvo Egypt was startled when Princess Hafza a cousin of the khedive khe-dive a charming young lady of 20 summers appeared on the streets I dressed In tho latest Parisian fashion wearing a hilt from which the French milliner had discarded tho yell This audacity stirred tho upper Mohammedan Mohamme-dan section of tho community and telegrams were sent In largo numbers I to tho khedive by tho religious teachers teach-ers In tho Azhar university and from other sources urging him to save the i dignity of their religion by forbidding his relative to espouse European fashion fash-ion thus defying tho tenets of their faith and setting aside ancient laws which govern Mohammedan society Tho khedIve Its Is known didnt Ii even take tho troubleto acknowledge II the receipts of these messages and therefore tho princess unabashed takes her dally drive like any European Euro-pean lady and In the latest stylo at that Since this princess first defied traditional tra-ditional rules governing the life ot Moslem women It has become a common com-mon sight to see the rising feminine generation of Mohammedan elite society so-ciety women going about like their Christian sisters without mollahs and without veils As I informed you a little whllo back Mohammedan socle tywomen organized themselves to do wand that they bo no longer subjected to the habit of being compelled to envelope en-velope themselves and appear while going about as though they wero In the shrouds of the dead Other demands de-mands are that they have the say as to whom they should marry and not to bo forced Into wedlock with moo whom they have never known and 1 possibly have never seen In their lives Mass meetings wero held In the city and elsewhere at which resolutions resolu-tions were passed and sent to the khedive and to tho national council which has been sitting reviewing the laws of tho country and making recommendations rec-ommendations to tho counsel of state as to what now laws should bo enacted en-acted and old ones abrogated That these women were serious is shown by their fiery speeche In which they pledged themselves to influence women of marriageable age to refuse to wed any man whom they did not know personally or who would not pledge himself to help them acquire more Independence Tho movement move-ment has already borno some fruit Of course It will be some tlmo before It becomes popular with everybody and not for many years to come will Egyptian women bo entirely emancipated emanci-pated and have tho same privileges r chat European nnd American women enjoy uuu |