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A HINT TO SPARE LADIES.

"Is it a fact," asks a correspondent to a home paper, '■ as you have assorted, tlirt dealers in Circassian and Georgian female slaves in Egypt feed their viclims on roaches in order to make them plump and beautiful ? " In answer, we will quote from a wellknown magazine -the langur~o of a coi'i-espondent writing about the "Egyptians at Home." lie bad ceen a dozen of tbese mountain women sitting on shore where tbey bad just landed from a ship. Tbey were pale, thin, rough-skinned, tawny-haired, unkempt, in coarsest attire, and were in pursuit of

fleas. Ho expressed his disappointment to an Egyptain dragoman standing near, who, with a gracious wave of the hand, replied, " Oh, Effeudi ? could you see these women three months hence, you would say that the prophet had fitted them for heaven. G-ood mashed beetles (genus roach and Crotan bug) ard generous ' pilaf' shall make, them plump ; the daily bath shall give their skins the hue of creamy milk, and their joints the suppleness and grace of the gazelle. With new health, their eyes shall sparkle with mirth and be bedewed with tenderness, —the rose shall bloom on their clreks, and gold shall gild their tresses. God is great !" A New York contemporary remarks—•" And he might have added,' Mashed beetles are the profit of the harem traders."

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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1166, 10 April 1874, Page 3

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A HINT TO SPARE LADIES. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1166, 10 April 1874, Page 3

A HINT TO SPARE LADIES. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1166, 10 April 1874, Page 3

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