The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-05

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ana for Mrs.. vinton Babcock Of Nor
folk, va, who Il whiting her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Van Dorp- Ine
other guests were: ME- haipn rso,s
man, Mrs. A. w. Benson. MIS-. = A.
Austin: Mrs. Marshan ur1e' ami
Mrs. Perry Daniels, Mrs. Harold ssa,-
breath. Mrs Ben Kerns. MIS- JACK
Keyes. Mrs. Sundall, Mrs G. F. duIetL
MIS-. Model. Miss Pearl Beam, mss
Eva Spear. Miss celia Spear. MISS MARY
Sharp and Miss Alice Peterson.
Mrs. Edward Patrick win leave sat
urdav for her home in Boston. MASS,
after q visit to her sister, u. Saran
Kline, and Miss Maud Mary Kline. Shc
has been entertained at a series OF
parties. the last of which was given
Thursday afternoon. Al the party yes
ter3av. Mrs. Frank p. Whitmore sang
for the entertainment OF the guess, anu
her niece. Miss Hofford OF 6uranE.on.
Ia. also gave some vocal nuMnss 1. a.ed
M 7. p Price contributed some dra-
matic readings to the afternoons pro-
gram.
A scholarly and autnoi.Ause
ture was given Thursday night at the
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the Rev. Mr.. 6. Robinson Lees o.
london. Eng. Wednesday evening ne
made an address at the college on Tue
homes and markets OF Jerusalem anu
last night he spoke on the beooulns u
the desert on the east OF tne 1oIo1
The speaker is writer ana lecture,
Of note, he is fellow OF the hoyal
Geographical society, and hveo .or sH
years in Asia Minor, as an oIieincA
investigator and a student OF the NE
Of the Orientals in that part OF the
east. ~.
In his address last night he wore the
costume of the desert people, wnicn
consists of a long white garment WIN
q girdle in Oriental design. ana an
over garment Of black, and neao DRESS
Of white cloth. On the stage WeIe
large canveses reproouceu I.on ~.
toeraphs, showing the setting OF the
life he described.
.aThe Bedoriins,' he said, ARE not a
narticular race, but the name Simply
indicates that they are desert peopie'
and there are many tribes OF them
in different parts of Asia and A1ricd-
These tribes east of the JORDAN are
robbers by instinct and profession anu
travellers through that county nnu
+heir nossessions though not their lives.
In Jeopardy. They are, nevertneiesS'
people of great hospitality and open
handed generosity, and this trait Is
fundamentally due to an unoerlylns
nrincipla of their religion that all food
is provided by Divine power for all peo-
pie to be shared equally with all
MANY travellers come home from the
east, having observed only superncial-
ly. and describe some of the dirty,
beggerly derelicts about the towns, as
the type Of the ancient patriarch. But
having seen the desert chiefs in their
tents and in their daily life, when
| think of Abraham, I picture chelk
of the wilderness whom I know. The
dignity, courage, the business. hospl-
tally aud innate nobleness OF that man
| is the picture I carry OF the Father OF
the Faithful. The people OF the Wild
| erness when asked if a certain leader
ia a good man, answer with a shrug
of the shoulders If they dtsapprove OF
him, but If he meets their ideal OF
bravery, majesty and ability In leader
ship, they lift up their voice and say
he is a "a man'-no descriptive ad1ec-
tives-just a man.
Mr. Lees told how the desert people
| had no written records. but each man
could recite the order of his ancestry
| to the day of Mohammed. and even
further back: how they brand their
camels with the sign Of the tribe and
| the sign that stood for the individual
owner; now they treat their guests;
how they made their raids; chose their
wives; avenge their injuries; build their
villages, and tend their focks.
"A shepheard is born, not made" he
said 1.-The herdsmans life is too lonely
for most men, for they like to gather
| in their tents at night where they have
listeners for their conversation. The
tradition that the women are the talk
erS is wrOng-it is the men,"
He told some interesting stories OF
| the wav they handle contagious. dis
eases in their camps, explaining their
| idea Of the identity of the plague and
J the man who suffered from it. He
elucidated their idea Of blood atone
ment, and he gave an intimate pic
ture, Of their primitive home life.
The Rev. Mr.. Lees account of the
nomads, Of their attitude toward life
and of the survival among them OF
the usages and modes of thought that
1 have belonged to the Semitic people
! since their great ancestor was called
out of Ur. Of the Chaldeas, is very il
Eliminating and interesting. He con-
tributed to Syrian archology when he
| followed the course of the Roman road
across the desert to the southern limit
Of the Hauran mountains, and he is
an eminent and reliable authority on
the life Of the old east.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
DR.. and Mrs. w. c. McDonough will
return Monday from Chicago and Bal
I timore. They have been gone about
eight weeks. and Dr. McDonough has
been visiting the hospitals and attend
ing clinics during his absence.
! Miss Grace johnson of Hartford
Kan, arrived today to be the guest