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Frankness and Freedom Among Semi-Civilized Laristan Nomads

FRANKNESS AND FREEDOM AMONG SEMI-CIVILIZED LARISTAN NOMADS

Health and vigour envelop the women of these untamed tribes, who boldly face the world, the picture of jaunty independence. Their refined and carefully-guarded sisters despise them for thus openly showing their features, but these wanderers know nothing of the discontent so prevalent among the Persian women cloistered in silken seclusion, and to them freedom is the keynote of their existence