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36 HOW TO UTILIZE THE POWERS OF WOMEN.
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books they are produced fromthe by scri indolent torium writers —as the , who monks doze used over to every call letter their ,
writing emerge room—with , marvellous p slowness , and are therefore extremeldear
y . fitable Now to if do the would women learn of this to imitate country the who Oriental have nothing character " more s , pro and - , India
take large mi By a ht to little market be copy got per ing mi s into everance g books ht circulation soon for even be Turkey opened Korans in , the Persia for thus East this , and . produced kind The Northern of Mahometans merchandise in England , a , .
thoug that g failing h prejudiced as we , in are the not West quite are so much apt to under persuade the dominion ourselves of .
They assist make in navi use gating of all our our shi manufactures they fi , ht they in the travel field with by our us , side they ,
and recentl us y they have even- done ps , us the g honor to borrow money of us—whether they will ever condescend to pay is another f question .
At economical any rate than it is they very were certain wont that to be they . They are becoming like cheap goods more , and buy large quantities of themStillthey have a fine tasteand
in matters of literature , especiall . y when , connected with reli , gion , yet lavish of their wealthEven a Sheikh of Arabia , when
are . possessed book in the of bazaars money , will of Damascus travel a long or Cairo way to and purchase if it be a beautiful favorite
his will purchase cheerfully he pay puts many the pieces volume of gold into for his it . , haik When hugs lie has it to made his
bosommounts his cameland turns his face towards , the desert , filled with , brilliant visions , of what his manuscript is to reveal to le and
him gold . meet He take his s eye it , out the now long and droop then ing and curves opens of it the , the letters purp in rich j g olting lossy black of the ink camel he compares prevents his to the reading flowers so in he a puts meadow it back , but into the
the breast of his garment , exclaiming " Wallah , / bismillahJ the time will come . " ies of what
If the bazaars of the East were supplied with copwe may and made call the as popular far as possible books of to the resemble Moslem Eastern s , written manuscri on good pts paper , at a , number of
have our reasonable countrywomen great price ide , a we mi of g the feel ht find industry thoroug occupati hl of y women on persuaded . The . If Asiatics that they a are themselves able to
no take care of their households it is in their opinion as much as they can do . Yet a story is told at Shiraz , and told with much glee by
the menof a certain woman who many years ago performed , merchant wonders in at the Shiraz way of who business had inherited . There immense was , they wealth say , a from young his
he forefathers taken , and ill at of a a very disease earl which y age married the hysicians a wife . pronounced Not long after
incurable was . It wasted away his frame , it diminished p his strength , too so
¦ that by degrees the mere act of riding to the bazaar became
36 How To Utilize The Powers Of Women.
36 HOW TO UTILIZE THE POWERS OF WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 36, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/36/
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