Note 74 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.

Arab “Hizám”: Lane reads “Khizám” = a nose-ring for which see appendix to Lane’s M. E. The untrained European eye dislikes these decorations and there is certainly no beauty in the hoops which Hindu women insert through the nostrils, camel-fashion, as if to receive the cord-acting bridle; But a drop-pearl hanging to the septum is at least as pretty as the heavy pendants by which some European women lengthen their ears.