Show y y i acot cunti balm egyptian princess goes unveiled and clad in latest costumes no longer envelops herself as if fo burial and khedive throws all written protests in basket cairo egypt few days ago conservative serva tive egypt mas startled when PrU icess hatza a cousin of the kho alc a charming oung lady of 20 summers appeared on the dressed in the latest parisian fashion wearing a hat from which the french milliner had discarded the til athla audacity stirred the upper LIo hammo dan section of the community and telegrams were sent in large numbers to the khedive by the religious teach ers in the azbar university and from other sources urging him to save dignity of their religion by forbidding his relative to espouse european ash ion thus defying the tenets of theia faith and setting aside ancient law which govern mohammedan society the its Is known even take the trouble to acknowledge the receipts of these messages and therefore the princess unabashed takes her dally drive like any eun lady and in the latest style at that since this princess first defied tra dit lonal rules governing the life ol 01 moslem ft omen t has become a corn mon sight to see the rising feminine generation 0 o mohammedan elite so biety women going about like their christian sisters without and without veils As I 1 informed you a little while back mohammedan organized themselves to demand that they be no longer subjected to the habit of being compelled to en delope themselves and appear wall going about as though they were in the shrouds of the dead other demands are that they have the say aa 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 meetings were held in the city and elsewhere at which resola alons were passed and sent to the khedive and to the national council which has been sitting reviewing the laws of the country and making rec to the counsel of stata as to what new laws should be en acted and old ones abrogated that these women were serious la shown by their fiery speeches 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 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 emanel and have the same privileges hat european and american women enjoy |