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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1907)
TTTE (WATT A- 'KUXTUY BEE: JITXE 2X 1007. Producing Pictorially the Events of the Day Has Become a Profession &t-1 i rt i' - m n' . ready for them. There Is nothlnir that tickles the firm more than to be able to meet Some unusual request with; "Yea. sir. We've got sixteen different views of that thing, any way you want It, and cn ship one or all of them In three minutes." And It happens tflat way rlBht along. While the Sun reporter was calling on one of thesn universal providers the other day a honpltal visiting board mem ber came In Inquiring for rome. Interior views of certain uptown hospitals, and a newspaper called up to say it wanted a picture of a residence on Madison avenue Just bought by a well-known man. Both got what they were after. If it happened not to bo In stock a camera man would IJ I Fifth avenue bride onmes down I the steps of the church on the A. rm ' her latest husband nova- days she shields her face Instinct ively, Just aa the bank president accused of having stolen half a million screens his features with a handkerchief on the way down the gangplank mm the ocn liner. This because the faithful camera squad ,1a on the Job. In theprocesa of speclallzatlnn of today the work of collecting the photograph of the world's happening lias ben put on the basis of highest efficiency. There are flrr-s of photographers.ln New Tork wl.lc'.) nnJ;e ( bt:(iiie3i to follow up t day's cently there, was a coaching parade In Central park In which B. II. Harrl man and his daugh ters figured. Mr. It a r r 1 m a n had emerged from his Interstate C o m -mere commission onleal a few days before and tiny photograph labeled "Marrlman" was ln demand. The nctvs rxper rep.ilnri p' the camera sqia-i . v-- k vr i i - M 1 1 7 - 4 I I J fit rm, , i.??tM.':. -.', I :i5l'i55e--.- vi 'J'- hiAv, v ,-;;- ft I Jl !e "'-:C:'' - '-75'. V,,:-!2 '.',:', li .fvflHiiitP1' -j - " ' at- i- J ' I I S I " 3 i ;i1fHftt&!$. 4 7N. i It -'- evi.-.s with a camern. They have lii'ilr taffa of expert photor.rph"vs, their d v 1 oplng rooms end tluir iiietiscnKi-f ser.iie. One such firm lias on tile yyi.OO') nesal.vua collcctud fnm pretty r.iucn every hcre. What foreign photoKrioha It l.asti t on hand are at Its command as Boon as c.ib.a and mall can bring them. The firm ; ai correspondents In Itome. ( lirls Janla. IKI alngfors, Fruaaels. Ixindin. W. Ieters.ur,-, Moscow, Hhanghal and Toklo. bcsliles tli sj ln tho three Americas. Its own New York staff comprises eight regular men and some occasional. If the demand livens up of a sudden so that more than thin force la neided, tho two heads of tho firm pack up and go out ploturo Jiuntln themselves, one of them did the Jamestown exposition. The firm has A man at the Haywood trial, sent from the New York -efTlce. Another has. been In Pennsylvania winging the Philander C. Knox presidential boom. On June U. two weeks ahead of the Poughkeepsle reratta. a camera man pitched his tent at Pouh keepale and got a bushol or eo of negatives' showing the college oaramen. From there he goes to New inaon in urns 10 snap Harvard and "Yale. The newspaper Is by no means the only market for the commercial photographer. The majority o magailne half tones corn from him, to say nothing of the bulging numbers required for books, pamphlets and the Ilka and the special demands that pop up from nobody can predict where, although It Is part of the business to be Strange Costumes Worn by the Feminine Inhabitants of North Africa (Copyright, 1907. by Frank Q. Carpenter.) mUNIS. June . (Special Corre spondence of The Bee.)-Axcord-ini ta tha Koran, the Moham medan haa the right to four wives upon earth, and. when he goes to heaven, tie will receive ln addition eventy-two blaok-eyed hourla. ever, beau tiful and ever young. When there, he will have children .or not, according to his wlah, and the offspring will grow ln an hour to tha stature of their parents. Mo hammed himself Is said to have had about twenty wlvea while on earth, and. when he died, he left nine, each of whom had her own house not far from the mosque at Medina. Mohammed started out by marrying a widow. Her name was Cadl Jah. and It was her money which gave him his first boost Into prominence. He - was about 26 years old at the time, and was one of the finest looking young beaux of Arabia, Cadijah was 48. and. It is al leged, that it was she who popped the, question. He lived with her for twenty- . Ave years, and, during that time, took no other wljk. A month after she died, how ever, he became betrothed te a girl of 7, and he married her two or three years later. This second wife was the beautiful Ayeeba. whom he preferred, above all others, to the day of his death. Hokknuedu Wonaem. These facts form Uie basis of the Mo cammei Ithat tli lves t favored hammedan's Idea of marriage. He believes he prophet had the right to mor than his followers, because he was ored of God; and there was a chance that he might generate a race of prophets to succeed hlra. This chance failed; but, nevertheless, he still sticks to the limit of only four wives, and the Arab Judges of Tunisia and Algeriu will not recog nize us legal any more than that number. , Indeed, in Algeria, the French are now trying to cut down the slse of tha harem; and they will not allow such of the Arabs as become naturalised to have more than one legal helpmate. I beard of a young man In Oran, the son of a sheik, who thought that -It would be line to be a French cttlxen. . He took out hla papers, and shortly thereafter wanted to marry. He had already one wife, and tha license I was therefore refused. Vpon this, he was c'lsgusted. and said he wanted to be apure Arab once more. Down ln Flgulg. on the edge of Morocco, I was told that It was the custom for the Moor of that region to marry at It or years of age, taking a wife of 13 or 14. About ten years later he adds another young maiden of the same age to hla house hold. When he gts to be 40 he takes a third, and at W a fourth; so that he has always one young wife to wall upon him Uugughoui hia aatrUilx career. Aa the new f v ft ,' ?4 . have been hustled out after the desired print, The steady demand for animal pictures 18 met by the busy commercial firms, iney usually nave or can get you snap shots of anything short of a dinosaur. There Is a woman employed by one firm whom it considers the best animal photog rapher In the fleld. . Sometimes the commercial photographer Is able to beat the camera man from the newspaper office at his own game. Be- wives oome on, the older ones step back to tha rear and act as their servants. riaral Marnarc Dylaajr Oat. At the present time, owing to the ad vancement of modern civilisation, these plural marriages are steadily decreasing in number. This Is the rule in all Mohamme dan cities. Here' in Tunis moat of the na tives now have but one wife; and such Is the case In all cities of Algeria. The cost of living is steadily Increasing, and tha women vdemand more and more. They are patterning after the French ladles in their taotes, and it Is only the rich who ton keep up more than one household. Moreover, where several wives are herded together under the same roof and In tha same quarters, there is sure to be discord, and it means both peace and eoonomy to have only one. The Arab woman of the better classes are a dead load on their hue bands, for they are seldom more than chil dren In character.. They have no education to speak of, and they must have servant or slaves to watt upon them. The husband Is expected to furnish a dower for each wife, and if he Is rlcbi he must give from 11,00 to $10,000 to get her. This money goes to the girl's family, and a quartet of wives, so paid for, requires a large sum. With people" less rich, the dowries are lesaj but every' husband must pay something fot hla wife, even down to the porter, although the latter may get a bride for $5 or J10. MtUloaa of Veiled Wowes. Here ln Tunis the women of the mlddl olaseea go out so wrapped up in veils that not a bit of their faces Is to be seen. Over their heads they have long scarfs, which fall to tliilr knee. These scarfs are black, embroidered with red and white stripes, and so thick that It is impossible to sea through them. The women hold them up with their hands as they walk, looking out for a step at a time. They sometimes wear shawls over the veils. Such women seldom visit the stores and it on the street they are probably on their way to tfie mosque or to the oeinetertee or to . visit their friends. The women cf the common classes look stranger still. They dreas In white gar ments of cotton or wool, which cover tha whole of their persona excepting their face. Tha latter are wrapped around with a thick black erape, la which two hole tfre cut out for tha eyes. In the distance they look like the blackest of negroes, with features wrinkled like a washboard. As they oome closer their veils are masks and their black eyes may be aeon shining out of the darkness. ' The woman of Algtara wears a wide white band across her face to conceal IL 8qmetlmea a veil of white Is fastened tightly over the bridge of tha nose, the upper part of the faoe being hidden by the halck or blanket-like shawl, which Is com mon all over that country, la Morocco :'.-M .t i . - - -e x. ., . ' - r went on fooV They snapped away at will. but results showed that either the angle or the light was against them. One of the partners In the commercial office, however, got an automobile and fired point blank at every tallyho as he drew alongside Just before the parade started. Nearly -every Countenance was as clearly depicted on his negatives as If the subject had gone to a "gallery" for a special sitting. In one of the pictures on this page Mr. . a. 1 v- v.. J ' 1 - aai i iT . A WFTJVTO-TK) TJkTY OF TtTH. and In western Algeria the woman holda her halck tight over her face, leaving a little three-cornered hole.hot much bigger than a finger ring, out of which one eye peeps aa she goes waddling along. Thar rikt Jewel. All African women are fond of Jewelry and the well-to-do Mohammedan girls have necklaces of pearls, earrings of precious stones and bracelets and anklets of gold. Trie poorer wear silver and those who have nothing will load themselves down with brass and white metal. Indeed, I am uurpriaed at tha number of Vt;y '' . .. .; -.'v ' ' S f a i 4 Bryan Is revealed ln the act of being stormed at the Battery Just after landing from Europe. Twenty cameras or so were trained on him and every operator was a professional. The life of such a photographer Is by no means easy. Many of his subjecta are un willing to be pictured and he cannot con ceal his mission. That square black box with the folding finder gaping ominoiibly above does not permit htm to walk un- mm mm. OTRTi Wm TATR OP TOOCSffwS. desert I had to spend a night In a flrst ornaments which even the common Arab girls wear. Little tola of ( and 7 have heavy silver rings on their anklets and gold rings as big around as an after-dinner coffee cup saucer, not only ln the lobes of their ears, but also In the rims all along to the top. This Is especially so of the Uedouln girl, who often carries the wealth of her whole family on her person. Tha Kabyle woman covers her breast with Jewelry and wears enormous earrings and anklets and pins, which will weigh a pound or more each. Purine nr. trip down Into the western : ..;'i.;;r... W 7?wr V; l Vfr ! Of COACHING JHAUt;. , ; -I A U'eh ?ijf 1 r the Knun,,ot of ,Pn"ps- Th" r ' s l5 V.' 1, 1 y A V - ' r" r-mJcky camera-men rjelng all over 'V r'-TM M ' 'Ww'.iHV "ndf pllaRl -"or closed csrrlnges. Hut M'LyilV j2 h (r ! J7, -n'l.orod outs.de of the J . ' ;' VSt-li' "' laer's house. When Hmnmel : f ' ' 1 . flnn"y ''"'iR'd cut and Into a c.h h ,.. 1 -I r, - ?'. Mi. molested Into an oil Inquiry or to find a plaro In the gallery above a dinner table. Because the camera man has to work under such difficulties he has as a class developed a monumental nerve. Thyre . Is nothing that can daunt him until every effort to take a snap lms been exhausted. He will hang from the unfinished arm of a bridge to take a picture of a mob of strikers below. He will stand for hours In the snow outside of the Hall of Justice class car with a rich Arab chief and his wife and their two little girls. When tha woman came ln she waa so bundled up that one could tell nothing as to her clothes. As the night went on, however, her over-giirruc-nU were thrown buck and I observed that she was dressed like the queen of Rl.eha ln her glory. She had a half dozen bracelets on each of her arms. Her fingers sparkled with diamonds and she wore great gold rings In the sides and lotieg of her fJ.ru. Sho had a little cornucopia cap on her fiead. Tliia waa of red velvet embroidered with gold, nd she wore a spangled shirt waist over a white chemise of fine wool. She was tattooed on chin, forehead and cheeks. Her Hps were painted with rouge, her tinners stained red with henn and her eyelids blackened with kohl. Beanty by the round. How would you like to figure on your sweetheart by weight and value your brlda by the pound? That is the custom among the Hebrews of Tunis. The men think a woman beautiful according to her much flesh and a likely Jew girl of 300 weight or so has no trouble ln getting a husband. Aa a maiden approaches the marriageable age she is stuffed much after the manner of a Strasburg pate-de-fole-graa goose. These Jewesses have their own way of eat ing to Increase their fat and their own foods for putting on flesh. One of our Agri cultural department explorers tells me that they use a certain grain which surpasses any that we have In its fattening qualities, and also that Secretary Wilson expects to introduce this grain into the United States. If so, it will indeed be a boon to our thin, scrawny girls who worry because -they can not rise in avoirdupois. I have before me a photograph of the two biggest Jewesses of Tunis. They are mountains of flesh and one of them weighs over 4n9 pounds. Wear Oolte Troowri. These Jeweasea have the homllest cos tumes I have ever seen upon women. They wear breeches, both on the street and at home, and over them short, loose sacques which fall to the walat. Some of them hay their trousers loose about the. hjps lnd. t!;ht at the calves and others wear them about even all the way down, load ing them with embroidery ol silver and gold. Some pairs of breeches are made en tirely of gold thread, and I hear of money lenders' daughters who have panties which cost - a pair. Such garments are re served for home use, and they are not to be seen on the streets. Other girls have pantaloons of velvet, loaded with bands of gold and silver, a girl thus carrying a whole Turtune on her trousers. They all wear Jewelry, and on public occasions they come out in pearls and diamonds and gold galore. The Jewish men here dress like the Arabs, but tha women do not ' veil ' their faces and, It la possible to sea Just bow they Tli " !. i '' Jk . y -y, i . . 1 ' v ) ". .... J jy I. i iiT on the bare chance that woman who figures In some sensational case may pass through the door ho is guarding. Ha drives gouty financiers to distraction and scares people with doubtful records Into desoerate efforts at escape. When Abraham Hummel was sent over .to' Blackwell's Island the . camera men were on the Job three deep. Hummel end his friends had dcdired and twisted In an effort to get to the water's edge without look. The most of. the women have wh,at we would call . brunette complexions, al though there Is no sign of the mulatto about them. They , have black hair, beau tiful eyes and not Infrequently prominent Hebrew noses. Some of iliem are pretty, but more are not; and with their out landish costumes tho homely ones are about the ugliest of their sex. Some of these women when they go out on the street wrap themselves up in cloths, but the clothes never reach so low as to hide their breeches.- They have on high gold caps and tho cloths are often faathed to these. " Marriages , Among the Jews. The Jewess marry young. A good fat girl is often wedded at 12, and she becomes a mother at 14 or 16. Marriages are usu. ally preceded by a contract, and there is often a forfeit put up as against divorce. If the man does not carry, out bis contract he has to pay damages, and ln the case of divorce he usually gives back half tha property which his wife brought him. A divorced wife always gets an allowance. If his wife has no children the Tunisian Jew has the right to add a second wife to his family, and a dead man's brother Is ex pected to marry his sister-in-law, even If he Is married already. I am told that mar riages sometimes occur between uncles and pieces, and that, as far as possible, families combine to keep he fortunes ln their own clan. , These Jewish marrlabes are usually made by the rabbis, and at the house of the bride.- Here the rabbi covers the young couple with a veil and directs the groom how to put the ring ' upon the bride's finger. . About a week before .the wedding the public festivities begin, and from that time on the girl has to go through a lot of cere-, monies without power of hindrance. The older women of the family take nold of her. They first put her ln a bath, where her body is coverod with an ointment .which, when dry, is pulled off, leaving the skin perfectly clean and as soft as when she was born. Her hair is then anointed with Jet black potnatum, ' which gives It a gloss, her eyelids are blackei d and her eyebrows are marked out and Joined by a thick line of red paint. At the same time her linger nails are covered with henna, and even her toe nails are mud rL Pretty tiabrles. I had a good chance to see something of tho Kabyle women when I made my Journey through their country ln the Alias moun tains of eastern Algeria. They are much fairer than either the Moors or tha Bedouins. They belong to the same race as we do and have blue eyes, rosy cheeks and red hair. They are Mohammedans, but they do not' veil their faces, and as a rulo the Kabyle husband has rait one wife. The women, are allowed to go about as they please. They' sometimes work In tie fields and I saw many of them walking along tae I -.1 ..... huiimt man me flush of the shutter. At a sensational murder trial in southern New Jersey several months ago one of tlnse peraistent photographers mada a travesty of Ju.Melnl dignity, but ho got his Picture. The Judgo silting In tho case was old, hard of hearing and dim eyed. He had to rtt very close to tho witness chair and to pay the keenest attention In order to catch all the testimony. During the course of the trial the photnaraphers had tried ln vain to get a full face picture of the de fendant, who always snt so near tho Judge's bench that only his side face could be presented to the photographers. One day one of the photouraDhera sllrm.,1 K t0 tho sheriff, and then when the Judge had taken his place down near the end of the bench near the witness chair the man with the camera stolo softly up behind the Judge ln sight of all the crowded court room. Ha deliberately set up his tripod In front of the defendant and, though the prisoner moved restlessly and signalled his counsel to Interfere the photographer got his picture. Then he unscrewed his camera from the tripod and took the cameras others handed up to him, focus ing and snapping each one. roads with their children, and sometimes carrying, water from tiie wells Into the villages. These Kubyles are clad very plainly, with the exception of the Jewelry with which they are loaded. The ordinary dress Is a gown which reaches from the neck to the feet and Is fastened at tho shoulder with a great pin of sliver or whlta metal. On ceremonial occasions they, wear gowns of red and yellow stripes, strapped In at the loins with a belt of bright-colored leather. They sometimes wear a headdress of black Bilk. Their feet are usuully bare. . . t Jewish Onietertes. ' The Jews here ore very particular aa to ' their religious observances. Their shops are shut' upon Saturday and their wives do not cook or sweep on that day. They are affectionate with one another, and a Jewish, funeral with Us accompanying mourning la a sight to be seen. The Jewish cemeteries are nothing like ours. They have no tall monuments. The vaults are dug out so that their tops rent even with the surface of the earth, and they are covered with marble slabs of the same else and height o that the whole cemetery appears to be one great marble floor. Upon, each slab are carved Hebrew char acters giving the names and ages of those who lie below; and, when the women go out to mourn they sit down on the slabs over their dead and bob up and down as they wall out their grief. I visited one of tha largest of these cemeteries this afternoon. Its marble floor seemed to be spotted with white tents, and aa I got closer I could sea that each of these tents was a Jewish woman shrouded In white, mourning her dead. , . . Foneral and Hired Mourners. There was a chapel at one end of tho graveyard, from which came a great nolae. I entered and found that a funeral was be ing celebrated. In one room was a coffin standing upright against the wall, and, be side It, on the stone floor, covered by a silk sheet of bright red, lay the corpse of a man. About him were a number of Jewish men In Arab clothing, weeping softly; while In the next room wre the hired mourners, who are brought in for such oc casions at so much per wall. These mourn erns were Jewish women, ranging in ago from a fat maid of 18 to a weighty old lady of 60 or more. They numbered fifteen, and I venture they would pull down tho scales a ton and a half. They sat on the marble floor, with their feet under them, arid swung bark and forth, bobbing their heads to the ground, as they fairly howled out a chorus for which the fat old lady kept time. As the mourners saw me mak ing a note, the wulllng subsided for a mo ment; but as one of the bereaved family come in It burst out louder than ever.' Such mourners are common to all oriental coun tries, and they wall here for the Arabs aa well as the Jews. FRANK O. CARPENTER. , '1