The fez is not a sort of smoking cap.
It is a tower of scarlet often tall enough to be the head-dress of a priest.

And it is a hat one cannot take off to a lady.
This fact is familiar enough in talk about Moslem and oriental life generally; but I only repeat it in order to refer it back to the same simplification which is the advantage and disadvantage of the philosophy of the desert.

Chivalry is not an obvious idea.
It is not as plain as a pike-staff or as a palm-tree.

It is a delicate balance between the sexes which gives the rarest and most poetic kind of pleasure to those who can strike it.

But it is not self-evident to a savage merely because he is also a sane man.
It often seems to him as much a part of his own coarse common sense that all the fame and fun should go to the sex that is stronger and less tied, as that all the authority should go to the parents rather than the children.