Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Care of Persian Girls. [ARTICLE]

Care of Persian Girls.

“Great care la taken that the Perelan girls shall conform to the recognized standard of beauty, which requires her to have a cypress waist, a full-moon face, gazelle eyes and eyebrows that meet,” says a traveler. “Her eyes, brows and hair must be black as night, her lips, cheeks and gums as red as blood, her skin and tetfth as white as almonds, and her back, limbs and fingers long. If these conditions are naturally absent they -azcu-suppHed.-aa far- as -possible, by art. Persian women are always painted, their eyes darkened with khol and their fingers stained with henna."