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Show BEADS HIGHLY PRIZED BY PEOPLE OF LEVANT CONSTANTINOPLE. July : A. Beads are more necessary than briad to tho Levantine. Men, women and children wear and carry beads to ward off 111 luck. Even the horses and donkeys havo strands of beads about their necks "to baffle tho evil eye" and the long horns of the work oxon arc decorated with blue and white beads to keep them from falling prey to diseases. In Athens, Constantinople, Tiflls, Smyrna and other cities of the Lccant men of all classes carry short strands of fidget beads which they play with while walking In tho street, riding in street cars and trains, just as nervous men In tho west finger their watch-cnalns watch-cnalns Bcadshops abound everywhere every-where In the larger cities and general stores and market stalls sell them In the smaller places. Peddlers hawk them In the streets eerywhere Light-colored amber beads of large size aro tho latest thing In beads for women Meerschaum beads are also popular and for tho moment plain leads of all sorts have displaced highly high-ly ornate carved beads of the type which Syrians produce In great quantities quan-tities for exportation. |