Page 87 - Neglected Arabia Vol 1 (2)

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neighborhood. There sits the lady uf the house watching all that passes
iiiid storing up questions to he asked of her callers. An explanation
is demanded of everyone’s trips and information is sought about all
grangers. Her life is empty of much outside interest. She has no
children and boasts of the fact that she never leaves her house. It is
an interesting place to take newcomers because, if the hostess is in an
ainiable mood, she enjoys showing off her beautiful clothes and jewelry.
She is a very bigoted Moslem and the years of contact with the
missionaries and readings and talks from Our Hook seem to have
made no impression upon her. If we are there at pray cl* lime she
always excuses herself for her devotions and then at sunset time she
is very uneasy and hastens with her refreshments lest her husband
should return before we have left.

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In almost every home there are girls, whether daughters of the
family or of slaves and we do long for them all to have the oppor t
Utility of coining to the girls’ school. When they visit it at Uiristmas
lime or on other festive occasions and see the display of drawing,
.sewing, paper tearing and cutting and listen to the few classes that are
held for the benefit of the guests, their eyes brighten and they air J
absorbed in the strange sights. They wish that they too might come
to the school of western ways instead of the Koran school. The school
works a change in the lives of the girls, the future mothers of Arabia, S'
and when these women awake and cast oil the veil of Mohammedanism
then may there be brighter and happier homes united by Jesus Christ
and His Love.