Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-03
WORSHIPERS OF ALLAH.
Tho Women Believe They Will Have a
Place in Paradise.

Tho Women Believe They Will Have
Place in Paradise.
The ceremony of the prayer on this
occasion was singularly impressive. To
witness it we descended a wide stair
case, at the foot of which was another
long, bare. spacious apartment, the low
ceiling supported by pillars. 1t was
dimly lighted from above by sparsely-
hung lamps
bout thirty or forty women, in their
house attire, but wearing the long white
veil draped round the head, face and
shoulders, wives, daughters. sisters,
servants, slaves and children-white,
brown, bronzed and black-were ranged
in kneeling rows, their foreheads touch
ing the ground, their attitude the en-
bodiment of self-a basement, in pres
ence of the one indivisible God they
adore.
In the dim light these PROSTATE
heaps, shrouded in their white wells,
looked ghostly enough The whole
scene was mute and silent as a dream.
/ Only at intervals, from behind
screen, the voice of the priest broke
the stiffness, and proclaimed in a weird,
nasal, monotonous chant that Allah
was the one and only GOD.
+ Sometimes the yelled figures rose to
| their feet with one accord-eastern
| women are very supple if they are very
| ft-then, as the name of Allah fell
| upon their ears, they flung themselves
down in the same uniform manner, and
| rocking themselves to and fro, after
the manner of worshipers in mosque,
| laid their faces in the dust.
| My friend, the pasha's daughter, was
| good enough to sit upon the staircase
| by my side and act as chorus, instead
of joining in the performance.
After she had explained that ''Moise''
and ''Jesu Christ and ''Mahomet"
were all acknowledged by her faith to
have been divinely inspired, but not
divinely born, she proceeded to ex-
pound the Mahometan theory of para
disc.
But" interrupted her, 81 have been
told that there is no paradise for the
souls of Mahometan women. Your
husbands are TO have hours to console
them for your loss
IT did one good to see the scorn of
the pasha's daughter at this suggestion.
She impaired it in Turkish to the bland
ly smiling Mrs. Djevdet Pasha, and the
pair laughed until the blue robe of the
latter slipped off her broad shoulders
for the twentieth time.
When they had done laughing they
informed me that there was no greater
mistake than to suppose that Mahomet
excluded women from paradise. That
his own daughter, Fatma, had been the
great expounder of the koran, which
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disc by the same path as the one the
men were to follow.
That their husbands had better just
60 in search of the hours. Only let
them try. Their wives would soon be
even with them; for were there not
-angels-beautiful as the
archangels themselves, and was not
(orly the pasha's daughter did not put it
in this form sauce for the goose sauce
for the ander as well?-Temple Bar.
A Toad's Long Nap.
While a large fire log was being
sawed at the West Shore mills one day
recently one of the men noticed some
thing very singular. The outside slab
and one board had been cut off, and
the men were turning the log over pre-
paratorv to squaring it, when they
were surprised to see a large toad
poke his head out of a hole where he
was embedded, and where he had bare |
ly escaped being cut up by the saw. |
He was completely encased in the |
wood, with no possible means of in |
gress or egress. AS the log was the |
third up from the butt of the tree, his |
position must have been about sixty |
feet from the ground. There is but |
one way of accounting for the fact that |
he was found in the position named. |
He had grown mp with the tree from |
infancy, and was probably hundreds |
If wears old when the saw awoke him |
Il A.,