e the bride and groom remain standing. The bride's dress covers her
body and face from view except her forehead. She wears a crown and is
called a queen. The groom wears a high feather on his crown, a sash
around his chest and is called a king. For two months after the wedding
they are called king and queen. They do no work during this time but
visit and take life easy.

MOSLEM MARRIAGES.

The marriage ceremony of the Mohammedans takes place about a week
before the formal wedding. It is very simple. Representatives of the
contracting parties go to a priest and get two ceremonial letters, one
for the bride, the other for the groom. In them is stated the sum
necessary for the groom to pay, if he ever divorces the woman. It
further states that it is the groom's duty to love this woman and all
other women that he may marry thereafter. That it is the bride's duty
to love the groom and no one else.

The prevailing low regard for woman grows out of the teaching of
Mohammed. Among his last words he charged husbands not to place any
confidence in their wives. He stated that they had been the cause of
much of the crime and misery in the world.

When a Moslem goes out with his wife he is disgraced if she goes before
or even beside him; she should follow. A man can marry four wives, but
can divorce any one of them at any time. But a woman cannot get a
divorce from her husband. A man is angry when his wife gives birth to a
girl babe, and his friends fear to break the news to him. One man was
known to be so angry when his fourth daughter was born, that he did not
speak to his wife for three months. The mother of a son is loved the
more, and the first person who breaks the news to the father is given a
present.

If a man murders his wife he may be fined a sum of money, but can't be
executed because woman is not equal to man. The question as to whether
a woman has a soul is sometimes discussed. Men do not salute women in
meeting them, but women are expected to bow their heads to men.

PART III.

CHAPTER I.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

The present dynasty is called the Kajar dynasty. It began with Agha
Mohammed Khan who was taken captive by the enemy when he was a child
and all of the prominent members of the family excepting children were
slain. Agha Mohammed Khan, then a boy six years of age was made a
eunuch by the new king to serve in his harem. But at the age of twenty
or twenty five he escaped from his master an