Show 1 I fijI IS y p pp ps 7 p s Woman oman Shell Sheik of the Sahara Sahar left une l V Down DO a Dallier Bai of Below Men of tire UIO Wear Veu In ing 1 ells lAND I W ERE WOMEN EWEN I ARE SHEIKS For Centuries Centuri s sMale Male Male s Hid Behind I Wives Skirts I MEN MEN- MEN WEAR VEILS I Despite Drawbacks There There Are jAre No Dishes To f Wash By NEA NA PARIS T July IY Rere's 28 2 Her nw new tor for American henpecked husbands There arc are some men even ven worse off than they he For out In the Saharah desert there Is a tribe In which the men are arc forced to wear veils and ad nd the women are ar tie sheiks That In a aland land where every man Is I supposed to be bo a a masterful hero For centuries they thy h hAd d been hid hid- hidIng hId hIding hid Ini Ing behind the tho th skirts skirt of ot their wIves and nd they thy were able abl to keep the tact fact subjugation from the world But Dut finally a woman dIscovered their secret She Sh Is i I Mme Citroen Bite Ite of the tho h manufacturer r who accompanied him hint on his motor fara an trip across the tb desert des rt S S ys she This tribe l as th he e on ott the Plateau In th the heart of ot the Sahara Its women are ar the bosses bosses- s and the th men are ar the weaker In sox sex In- In deed little more mor more than slaves Ther a woman never lies about v v- r her age alte No man dares ask hers her old she sho Is And even ven It IC he would she 1 probably couldn't tell him For there Is no such thing as age In lh he land of th the I asked one on how old she sh was She l o ed at me m with scorn acorn end and said Well see se when we w die Theres There's no need before Time Tim slips by so quickly she explained thit there thero trying Is no use wasting any ny try try- try ing to figure out ou t the years year Whether It Is this s or the climate I dont don't know But the women there thero are ar remarkablY beautiful and audaciously domi domi- domi- domi domineering domineering domineering K All other women of the th desert are forced to wear ear their faces But not the th They make the th men wear ear car them Ins Instead ead This position of the women omen omen IS Moslem extraordinary for the tribe trib Is Mos Mos- lem and the tho tenets of the Islam religion teach that women are In- In In Interior Inferior creatures But there Is one advantage the dhas pecked hen-pecked hus husband a d has over oser the American lie H ne neer r has to wash the dishes For says say Mme Citroen there ther there are no dishes to wash When one iS Is hungry h he just walks alles out n l pulls a bunch of dates from a palm paW tree- tree and has hns his till fill These dates are the only food The Th dl divorce orce law Is easy amon among tI tl All that th hit a man nepi ne 1 do when he ho wants ants to 10 get rid fl 4 his wife wire Is to toll tell the Cald h ps chief to send his wife aay away and the divorce Is complete But Dut while that Is the law of ot the lIte land It Is not the practice The women have hao their men too well wll trained to take any chance While the husbands are ar timid tor be-tor be be- be before fore their wives sies h es they are arc as tear fear fearless tearless less as any other men of the desert hen nhen they leave heave their homes Per centuries th these se strange riders of the sand with aith veils ells worn orn at alt all times ha have hao 0 withstood any Intrusion In 18 O when alien the French began consolidating their vast ast ast African I possessions they fought the th and lost many men in the tho cam cam- campaign They rhey were ere only subdued when Marshal Joffre Joffee then corn com commandant mandant took tooh a hand In the tho fight But even In theIr heir defeat they kept their secrets No photos had hade e eer ever er been taken taLin of or them until Mme Citroen and anti her party in arI armored ar- ar mored cars mored-cars cars penetrated the desert I I IMme and won on on the confidence of th thc woman oman sheiks nn |