The Bible nowhere forbids women to show their face and appear in the streets. Their powerful and continuous intervention in the work of Jesus proves how much they were at this time mixed with the active life of men. But the habits and prejudices of the Muslim women have greatly influenced the Jewish women. Their obesity Moreover, disqualifying walking and unsightly, keeps them at home.
It comes out that the foot loose women, others do not dare unless accompanied and very rarely. However, as they are very pretty, very elegant and very stylish, they show themselves to the public once a week, every Saturday, starting at three o'clock, dressed in their richest dresses, trimmed with diamonds, decorated with jewels, they come in groups to post their cross in the most conspicuous, and cause them.
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All foreigners, young Christians and indigenous youth, aware of these strange habits, go to the Jewish quarter and contemplate their comfortable with these beautiful people together, to please them, behind the bars of their windows. The stranger is often surprised to be the subject of whispers, looks and even provocative signs that criminals would be very, very significant in Europe, but which are, told me there be sure, unimportant in Tunis . The Jewish
benefit from being seen from a distance, with their imposing forms, they have an incomparable splendor and majesty. Their manners are very relaxed, and they have the monopoly of gallantry with strangers. This is not to say that the Moors have more morals than Jewish, but they are held in duty by the severity of the law, and indeed less desirable foreigners, because the punishment which strikes' s extends to their accomplice.
The Koran, very forgiving for a foul committed with a true believer, punishes with death any trade in a Muslim with a Christian. The last scene of this kind very common in past centuries and without probably will not happen again in the future, took place in 1823 during the reign of Mahmud-Bey. A baker
Sardinian, based in Tunis, had relations with a young indigenous woman. Moors, who had discovered the plot, managed to surprise the couple imprudent act of adultery.
These unfortunate young men, torn from the house that served as their refuge, were pinioned and trailed in Bardo complacent with the neighbor who protected and sheltered their loves. The crowd who was driving, swelling and getting excited with each step, the air resounded with imprecations and words of death.
The Bey, who shared his feelings and his passions, condemned the three culprits to death. The Christian, seized by chaouchs, was driving on one of the squares of Tunis and beheaded before having been visited by a priest. The woman was later drowned in the lake, and the Moor hanged at Bab Souika.
The show was complete. Thus the people of Tunis he was jubilant, and was very near the Jewish quarter was not looted during the night.
It is true that in this country, the police are very meek and short-sighted, but at her side, there are plenty of fanatics who believe they are pleasing to the prophet in enforcing its law, and willing not to strike an infidel who has dared to sully his touch a woman reserved for true children of the prophet.
With Jewish one has to fear any of these inconveniences. The men, accustomed to humiliation, are also much less touchy on the point of honor. Long as the money arrives, they do not inform the source. The misconduct of a woman does not exclude the fact of the family or the church. It is this bad business, as it would any other, parents tolerate it, and even the rabbis, who charge a tax on it, drawn by its probable success.
The Jewish does not show too difficult to afford to amorous adventures, but they provide the utmost care to hide their love affairs, for if their husband or rabbi of the synagogue had knowledge, they would run the risk of being severely punished or even repudiated.
It is not difficult for a Jew to divorce his wife, if he can claim a reasonable cause to justify this divorce, and more, without having recourse to this legal act, taking a second wife, their law authorizing the polygamy and Muslim law.
All the girls are dancing with joy, and the Jews are even more skilled in this art that the Moors, and what are they which are the ornament of all KIFS, orgies nocturnal species which are the only recreations of that people voluptuous. I was assured that many of these popular Almes receive three to four hundred dollars for a single dance. On this account much richer. When they marry, and as the girls of Lesbos, they fall under the help of their husbands in the world, where they rank depends on the savings they have managed to do. The costume of
Jewish Tunis nothing like that of Jewish Algiers or Fez. They have maintained the contrary, they claim the national dress worn in any biblical purity. They are in the streets Face, wearing pants very sticky silk brocade and bright color, usually red and cotton stockings brightly colored, baggy shirts with striped silk gown and a kind of Phrygian cap and curved tip red morocco slippers
Their throat is enclosed in a black leotard, very sticky, very thin, and showing perfectly what it is supposed to have to hide. The head is wrapped in a white bathrobe, very light, which, flanking the figure, draw a contrast with their eyes and ebony hair and falls to the hips.
The gauze is so light, quite transparent, so that we track through the tissue, all body shapes. This suit is the latest indecency and it seems however that this is the real Jewish costume, and he was raised, although this is contrary to tradition, by holy women who accompanied Christ to Calvary.
The woman is still in Tunis in the Jewish state of inferiority in which Jesus was found and he was raised. The rabbis, not recognizing him no soul, it prohibits access to the synagogue. It is purposely kept in profound ignorance, to accept without revolt, the tyrannical supremacy that man has arrogated to it.
Jews marry very young boys, from fifteen to seventeen, girls, twelve to fifteen. Singles are very few among them women and very fruitful. As a result of this race multiplies prodigiously and more apparent that it contrasts with the steady decline of Muslims.
Jews, arrived in late nineteenth century to the huge number of fifty thousand, up over one-quarter of the indigenous population with security, their prolific virtue will only increase, if the ideas of justice and order continue to prevail the couch in the Regency, a century before, they will be as numerous as the true believers and possess half the land. No one knows what will happen then.
You must not believe that these people are lacking boldness and courage they have so far slavishly bent their foreheads, because they were unable to think of defense, and the slightest sign of insubordination would was the signal for a massacre. But should not they thought themselves able to resist. They would see the world surprised they race up the strongest, most patient, most vivid, the most indomitable, ever lived in the heavens.
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