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Show LATESIJ1S 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 Waste Basket. Cairo, Egypt. A few days ago conservative con-servative Egypt was startled when Princess Hafza, a cousin of the khe-dive, khe-dive, a charming young lady of 20 summers, appeared on the streets dressed in the latest Parisian fashion, I wearing a hat from which the French milliner had discarded the vil. This audacity stirred the upper Mohammedan Mohamme-dan section of the community and telegrams were sent in large numbers to the khedive by the religious teachers teach-ers in the Azhar university and from other sources urging him to save the dignity of their religion by forbidding his relative to espouse European fashion, fash-ion, thus defying the tenets of their faith, and setting aside ancient laws which govern Mohammedan society. The khedive, its is known, didn't even take the trouble to acknowledge the receipts of these messages, and' therefore the princess, unabashed, takes her daily drive like any European Euro-pean lady and in the latest style at that. Since this princess first defied traditional tra-ditional rules governing the life ol 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 meliahs and without veils. As I informed you a little while back, Mohammedan socie-tywomen socie-tywomen organized themselves to demand de-mand that they be no longer subjected to the habit of being compelled to envelope en-velope themselves and appear while-going while-going about as though they were 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 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 resolutions resolu-tions were passed and sent to the khedive and to the national council,, which has been sitting reviewing the laws of the country and making recommendations rec-ommendations to the counsel of state as to what new laws should be enacted en-acted and old ones abrogated. That these women were serious is 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 aequiro more self-independence. The movement move-ment 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 emanci-pated and have the same privileges-:hat privileges-:hat European and American women-enjoy. |