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Show Old Custom Slashed by Egyptian Woman In all the many dynasties which have rolled over Egypt only one worn an of the Nile has ever stood unveiled, in the presence of a pharaoh and Uvea to tell the tale. The one woman who has had this experience had it the other day when King Fuad of Egypt was the guest of the President of the French republic Madame Hackel, wife of an Egyptian newspnper editor, dared to do this thing. She was dressed by a Paris dressmaker; and though it might have beet) the strangeness of being well dressed that nerved her to this act of daring, there was something also in being connected with the liberty of the press. Thus, little noticed by grave his torians, great changes come to pas? Madame Hackel niay come to be remembered re-membered tis one of the liberators ot the women of the East from the bonds of custom that have bound them foi centuries. Queen Vashti refused to come unveiled into the presence oi King Ahasuerus and his court ; Mad ame Hackel has asserted the right ot women to enter the presence of tin king unveiled and look the monarch in the face. |