THE SHAH'S SISTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2233, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE SHAH'S SISTER.

Lady Siiikl, in her Glimpses at Life and Manners in t ) er>-ia, says, " I went to see the Shah's half-shter, a beautiful girl of fifteen, who lived with her mother in an obscure part of the ante roo:n, neglected by the Shah, and ron-eqiiently by everyone else. She w.is willy lovely, fair, and with indescribable eyes and a figure only equ i lied by some of the chefs d'teuvre of It. ih in art. This is so very rarp among 1 Pet Man women, that she was one of tho few persons I Haw in tho country with an appro ich to a good fiuuiv. She was dressed iv the usu il fashion of trawlers on trow-iTs, the la^t p,nr being of fiU',h stiff brocade th.it if put standing upright in the tnnMlo of tho room there they would remain. H<i hair was curled, n-ic plaited, and she was literally coveted with diamonds. She was quiet in hi r manner-), and srenvd dej'-i ltd. She was mOit anxious to boat about European custom*. And what seemed to huipri>e her in'ibt \v<ia that wo took the trouble to undiess every night bt foie going to btd — and >he a~ked mo was it true that we put on a loni? wlut* 1 dres^ to pa-» tho night hi. All Petrti-m women are ab-t<mi->hed it thi> (.■u^torn, dinl aie quite miable to account for it. They never unilres-* at nii/ht ; thy untie <Vieir thin mattrass fioin its silken cover, draw it out from its* place against tho wall, and roll themselves up in the wadded quilt which forms their blanket. If they go out to viMt they of course put on their be~.t gar ments and take them olf at night ; but geneially they lie down just as they aro and even in cold weather they wear their 'ohadeor,' or out-of-door veil, at night."