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Show Old Custom Smashed by Egyptian Woman In all the many dynasties which have roiled over LVypt only one woman wom-an of the Nile has ever stood unveiled in the presence of a pharaoh at:d lived to tell the tale. The one woman who has had this experience had it (lie other day when King I'uad of Fgypt wns the guest of the President of the French republic. Madame Ilackel, wife of an Egyptian newspnper editor, dared to do this thing. She was dressed by a Paris dressmaker ; nnd Ihouttli It might have j been the strangeness of being well j dressed that nerved In-r to this art of I daring, there vos something aiso In I being connected with the liberty of the press. Thus. little noticed by grave historians, his-torians, great change come to p.1s- Madame Hackel may come to he remembered re-membered as one of the liberators of the women of the Lust from the hondn of custom that have bound them f,,, centuries. Queen Va-h'i refused to come unei!e! into the pre-. -lco of j King Ahnsuoru-i nnd his court ; Madame Mad-ame U.t I:e has averted the right of won.cn to enter the piveme of the , king unveiled and look the monarch In the fare. |