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Show Preserving Ancient Costume. Tho ancient Doman amphitheater ot Aries recently witnessed a strango fostlval, qulto Provencal and naif Pagan. Pa-gan. Mistral, tho poet of tho Provence, Pro-vence, lamenting tho gradual dlsap-poaranco dlsap-poaranco of tho picturesque femlnlno costume of tho region beforo lrrcslst-iblo lrrcslst-iblo "Paris fashions," has succeeded In organizing n provincial movomont for Its preservation. This was publicly pub-licly launched at a "maidens fostlval," fostl-val," In which Mistral himself, as "Emperor of Provcnco," publicly embraced em-braced every Provencal maid who, having completed eighteen years, had first signed n "vow" nover to discard tho traditional dross of her ancestors ior now-fangled notions from tho capital. |