Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Discouraging to Tailors. [ARTICLE]

Discouraging to Tailors.

There Is no record of the costumes of the Syrian Arabs having changed during the period covered by human history, either as regards male or female dress or adornment. Saving only for his firearms, there is no reason to believe that the Bedouin of the desert does not cloths and adorn himself exactly as he did in the days of the patriarchs. Arabs In the desert have contracted a strange prejudice against running water, and they will only drink what they find in some stagnant pool. So much has this become a matter of habit with them that, while the most poisonous-looking water agrees with them admirably, pure running water will make them violently sick.