The Washington herald., 1915-02-07

knows what causes it nor how to cure II.
II comes first as a faint red spot, which
grows larger and-larger and sometimes
runs through q course Of eighteen
months. Sometimes white men have
lived in the Garden of Eden for many
years without having date boil appear
upon their faces, only to have 1t break
out upon their return to their own
countries. There are many who think
this is the kind of boil with which Job
was afflicted.
Children in this region always have
this dreadful sore on their faces. Once
a consul to Bagdad nearly lost his nose
because one Of these boils choose to
bloom upon 1t. Every native has boil
or the scar from a boil upon his face.
And the daughters of Eve, how fare
they in the land their. ancient mother
held for her own-along with Adam a.
partner? They are not much different,
It seems, than they were 1000 years
ago. They are about everywhere, veiled,
upright, graceful. They carry jars Of
water upon their shoulders In the same
way and with the same style Of jar that
vas used 1000 years ago. g.
With their beautiful hands they still
wash the feet of the guest whom they
wish to honor. When they mourn for
their dead children they heap handfuls
of dust over themselves. II one Of the
Bedouin women sins, her brother has
perfect rights even expected-to cut
her throat.
There II only an occasional woman
who knows America or what II Is. To
most Of them 1t is simply a part Of that
mysterious place called London. But
the women Of this plain were not always
so stupid. Here once lived the wise
Queen Esther. 1t was here that the
famous Queen of the Old Testament re-
vealed the plot against the Jews. And
II is probably because Esther saved the
Jews of her day that they still flourish
here.
The Adams Of these women are per-
mitted by their religion to take as many
as four of them as wives. The Bedouins.
being Moslems, may also take to. them
selves four wives, but one Bedouin Rom-
an seems about all that the ordinary
Bedouin man can handle. II Bedouin
woman is offended with her husband she
gathers to her side all the other women
of the camp and these with their lusty'
lungs Join In an assault upon the Of
Tending husband.
AS girls they are pretty in a wild. pic
turesque way, and have good-natured,
cheerful faces. Some Of them attain
real influence over their husbands and
through them over the tribe. In more
than one sheik's tent II Is in the woman's
half of II that the politics of the tribe
are settled. The desert men are jealous
of their wives but the women are seldom
veiled, and are permitted to laugh and
Joke with other men. They do all the
work that Is to be done, while the hus-
band sits and smokes.
But, useful as the Bedouin women are
to their masters. through all the tribal
, songs and legends and poetry. woman is
considered as an enemy and is much
abused. The Bedouins feel that a wom-
an is born wicked and can't be other
wise They believe that among all ami
mails save man the female is the better.
The women can secure no education,
should they desire it. 1t is foolish waste
OF money to educate women, the Bedouins
think Women are at the bottom of all
evil in the world and Hades Is filed with
them. Two Of the Bedouin ballads show
how the modern Eve is thought Of by the
modern Adam:
They said. marry! I replied:
Far be it from me
To take to my bosom a saekful of snakes.
I am free. Why, then, become a slaVeH
May Allah never bless womankind!'
"They declare woman to be heaven 70
man;
say, Allah. give me Hades, not this
heaven"