Show LATEST FADS SHOCK egyptian princess goes unveiled and clad in latest costumes no longer envelops herself as if fol fo burial and khedive throws all written protests in waste basket cairo egypt A few days ago conservative serva tive egypt was waa startled stait led when princess ilanza a cousin of the kho dive a charming young lady of 20 summers appeared on tho he t streets dressed in the latest parisian fashion wearing a hat from which the french milliner had discarded the yell veil this audacity stirred tho the upper mohammed Mo hamme dan section of tho the comman community ity and telegrams were sent in large larga numbers to the khedive klie dive by the religious teachers in tho the azhar university and from other sources urging him to save the dignity of their religion by forbidding his bis relative to espouse E european fashion thus defying the tenets of their faith and setting aside ancient laws lawa which govern mohammedan society th the e kh khedive odive its Is known oven even take lune tho the trouble to acknowledge tho the receipts of those these messages and therefore the he princess unabashed takes lier her dally daily drive like any european lady and in the latest style at that since this princess Drin cess first defied traditional dit ional rules governing the life of moslem women it has become a common sight to see the rising feminine generation of mohammedan elite society women going about like ilka their christian sisters without and without veils As I 1 informed you a little while back mohammedan socie tywo meri orga organized nihed themselves to demand that they be no longer subjected to the habit of being compelled to envelope themselves and appear while going about as though they were in the shrouds of the dead other demands are that they have the say as to whom they should marry and not to be forced into wedlock with men whom they have never known and possibly have never seen in their lives mass inee meetings tings were held in the city and elsewhere at which resol U eions were passed and sent to tho the khedive and to the national council which has been sitting reviewing the laws of the country and making recommendations to the counsel of state as a s to what new laws should be enacted and old ones abrogated that these women were serious is shown by their fiery aery speeches in which they pledged s to influence women of marriageable age to refuse to wed any man whom they did not know personally or who would not noi pledge himself to help them acquire more self independence the movement has already borne some fruit of course it will be some time before it becomes popular with everybody and not for many years to come will egyptian women be entirely emancipated and have the same privileges hat european and american women enjoy |