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Show Tripoli Women at Home. .There is a vivid picture of home life in Tripoli in Mrs. Mabel Loomls Todd's recent volume: "Another day I went to a house of quite different social so-cial order, where a poor woman with a crooked spine had asked to see the foreigner. She was sewing at a little machine low on the floor, turned by hand, like those used by Malays, her knees higher than her head but that was apparently a favorite attitude of both sexes. "Flat on the floor lay an old woman sound asleep, merely a neighbor in for a while to take this surprising means of promoting social hilarity. But she wore a good deal of jewelry, was artistically ar-tistically tattooed and, upon waking, showed strong, short white teeth in a friendly smile. |