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300 MADAME BUCE; G)F ALGIERS.
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in vain for tHe cause of this preference ; when the illness ofone of found Abd-eT a -KadeT _woman 's _^ cHildren Leila Z ; led 6 Hra ; us : surrounded into Ms dbnlesti by ' a c ' peculiar _circled J reverence T 3 iere _" we
, for widen we coul fbund d not _slie be Had _attributed enjoyed to _rt even Her quali before ty _^ the of mother birth of of Her _ithes son Sultan . 'At ,
last read we the found Holy books but ' the , the reason _? Mohammedan : tHiswbman ¦ Scri was _ptfiires _' lbarned , ' and _/ she tHis was _^ Woirian the
only _womani in an tHe ¦ country who could do so ! In tHis lay quite a mother revelation _aiicL ! iii THe ? -tHe ; son exercls -of' _Zohra _^ -of . tH was ai - soverei in great gn _^ par wHicH t _tHb Had work devolve _^ bf His d
upon ; Him _^ , _( _Afbd-el-Kader listened willingly- to tHe _counsels of tHe woman wHo Had doubly made Him a man . of
- " THe p _^ t _^ played b _^ Algeria on account of _liler _learning ) _-Ifed its _tb' inquire dbneefning all tHe women
possessed wHb witHin : _*} _knowledge _^ He ; memory ' bf bf ¦ _^ _he _' niaii ' writings were Imown _^ _according - to' tHe natives : to tHe as pHfase Having 6 f
tHe Arabs . Our searcH only discovered in a quarter of a century & ve learned women in a population of tHree million souls . One of
tHese , and the most illustrious , being the aforesaid mother of Abd-el-Bel Eader -EHarbubi _, now witH daug _3 ier Hter son of at ! _Albd Ambbise -el-Kadef . ? THe s ancient ; sebond _ElHalifai is _^ a _^ / fcma She _-bent was
given up as a , prize in war to the Aralb Ben Farath , to replace > the women ; of whom the eneniy H _^ d de _^ ive _^ Awn i _^ This prbfaiiatibn
of gave the rise Aralb to 1 prisbnefs energetic 1 . prbtes The ' tation third / and daug debates Hter to on a , ; 'Turik the par , and 1 : s bf former some
teacher of thechildren of the' last JDey of Algiers ; ZHera-beht-BraHam , is now sub-mistress of the Arab language in Madame Luce ' s school . The fourth died at Cbnstantiiie' in 1843 ; she was
also the daugHter of a Turk , once Holding an official , position in the Beyliek . The fifth died at Oran , in 1840 ; like the preceding , she
was KHoulougHa , that is , daughter of a Turkish father and an Arab mother ; Her father being employed in the Household of Hassan
¦ ¦ ¦ • ' _- ¦¦¦¦• ¦"¦>¦ ¦ ' ( ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦; - '•¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Dey . . " Five learned women ! these were all which the Mussulman
civilization Had given us since oiir conquest 6 f Algiers . Of course we don't reckon those women who in their childhood had learnt
to spell out a few verses of the Koran which they forgot as soon as they became wives and mothers .
" Such were the investigations present to bur memory when entering at two o ' clock yesterday afternoon into the establishment which
Madame Luce founded , and which she conducts with such skill . We found ourselves in the midst of 115 young girls , from eight to fifteen
years of age , and whose average acquirements are already much superior to those of the five learned women whose names are
preserved with a sort of veneration by the generation now passing away . THe effect of the comparison will easily be imagined .
" When we afterwards saw five children ; of whom two were
marvellously gifted , perform on a simple stage a little dramatic piece
300 Madame Buce; G)F Algiers.
300 MADAME _BUCE ; G ) F _ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/12/
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