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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ograph. Itwas formerly more modest, but this fash-ion came in with the present century. Likethe costume of short clothes worn by menin the last century in Europe, it requires agood figure to show it off to advantage.The moderate garments worn admit of con-siderable scope in the exercise of a taste sions the magnificent and imposing robesof office are worn as of old, made of therichest stuffs of Cashmere and Kerman,worked with exquisite designs. At a roy-al audience the invariable kolah, or blacklamb-skin cap, is exchanged for a white tur-ban, which is doffed on retiring from theroyal presence, and gi ven to a servant whohas waited outside of the palace gate. Asmay be easily imagined from the accountof visiting etiquette, the court ceremonialsof Persia are of the most elaborate andpunctilious character, although indicatingat present an inclination to relax a littlefrom a ceremonial that is burdensome inits details. It must be admitted that such DOMESTIC AND COURT CUSTOMS OF PERSIA. 231
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ARMENIAN WOMAN IN STREET COSTUME. pomp is qualified to give majesty to a mon-arch, and to aid in the maintenance of pow-er in a despotic government. It was thegreat court pageants and ceremonials ofByzantium which aided to prop up the de-caying Roman Empire long after it hadlost its vitality, presenting by its continuedexistence for centuries after it became mor-ibund one of the most extraordinary phe-nomena in history. Nusr-ed-Deen Shah, the reigning sover-eign of Persia, is a man of good and pro-gressive ideas, patriotically inclined, butoften hampered by the character of liis en-tourage and the menacing aspect of Russia,frowning upon any progress in Persia thatwould tend to add to the independenceof an ancient monarchy that she hopeseventually to absorb without resistance—a

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