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Progress of Women
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Mohammed Did Much to Elevate Social State
of Arabs by Laws Which Now Seem Crude
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
(Copyright. 1915, The tar Company.)
In the banquet hall of nropnxss
lod has bidden to a feunt
All the -women In the east. '
Sorno have, said. "Wo are not ready
We niUSt Wait another d.v''
Some, with voices clear and Steady.
wiu, t- near, ana we ODey.
Hbers, timid and uncertain, .
Mep forth trei ..t.. .... m the light.
Many hide behind the curtain
With their faces hid trom Bight.
lr. the banqviet hall of progress
All must Rather soon or late.
And the patient host will wait.
If today, or If tomorrow. .
If in gladness, or In woe
If with pleasure, or with sorrow.
All must Hnswer. al! must ko
They must go with unveiled face?,
Clothed in virtue and in pride.
For the Host haa aet their placey,
And Ho will not be denied.
The Arabs, until the coming of Moham
med, wero scattered tribes, with no re
ligious tie and knowing enly the laws of
force. They fought continually, trtto with
I inno, ana might
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was right.
Some of the tribes
i were pagans, eomc
Vere Israel Hes,
some were Chris
tians and some
(were nothing at all
but human animals.
Mohammed was
of the Korischlte
tribe, charged with
guarding the Tem
ple of the Kabba.
Orphaned young,
lie became a driver
of caravans, and on
Ms Journeys ho in
formed himself re
garding all the dif
ferent beliefs . of
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Ev.
ted him and his followers full license.
But in truth, Mohammed gave a social
code which elevated the social state of
his people far above any condition ex
isting among them previously.
I'ntil he wrote the Kurait there had
been no law which gave dignity or sso
redness to the family life. Mohammed
saw the necessity of some kind of protec
tion for women and children, and for
some sort of Ideals regarding tho re
sponsibility of the inun as a husband and
father. a
Crude and selfish as these laws seem
today, placed beside modern soda:
systems, where woman ' Is a prominent
factor, they were progressive it the time
they were formed.
The Arabs were wild, untutored and
scml-savagc men. To give each man four
women to protect and care for and to
mtiko each man realize that any negli
gence, toward these women was a sin
against the one and only God, meant
growth of character. For, until then, the
women had no rlglks. and no protection
from the man's transitory Impulses. 8ho
belonged to the- strongest man for such
time as he chose to keep her hi his tent.
That was all.
Mohammed reasoned that 'with four
wives to provide for with their offspring,
men would be mado industrious and prov
ident, and knowing the fierce passions
of the Arabs, and the Ignorance of the
women, he laid much sties upon seclud
ing the weaker sex, and shielding the
women from temptations.
In the year 633, among the Arab tribes,
tliesw laws were excellent laws. But to
the modern mind they seem absurd and
one-sided.
various tribe, be-
.erne familiar with all the sacred books
nd observed the growing decadence of
, lite country, torn with petty wars and
., vJisturbed by conflicting faiths.
A natural philosopher and of a serious
meditative mind, Mohammed, spent, long
hours In thought on these subjects and
he communicated the result of Ills medl-
i tations to his companions.
He soon earned the reputation of being
a holy man and something akin to a sage.
But not until after he married a rich
widow, Khandldja, was he able to devote
his whole -time to religious studies and
meditation. After his marriage, which
released him lrom material cares, , he
spent wholo days in prayer, and declared
be had communicated with the Angel
Gabriel, and that ha was bidden to
l-reach the true gospel to men.. ..
He was persecuted by the Koreaohites
of tho temple of Mecca and forced to fly
to Medina This was in 623 of our era.
And from the hour of bis flight Moham-
med became the great religious power of
Hie Arabs. He lived only, ten years after
i hat date, but ho died leaving millions
cf converts to bis faith. During his death
t ickness he wrote the Koran, which con
tains uil the laws for governing tho so
cial, political and domestic life of the
Arabs. j
it is customary .for the Christian critic
to think of Mohammed as a selfish and
fensual man, making laws which permit-
j Advice to Lovelorn
' By aiimci Miuiz t
Think Before raklBar.
DeaMlss Fairfax: I am a girl of 17.
Have had a high school education and
am considered to be cleveV by my
friends.
I have an unexplainublo love for criti
cising the opposite sex while in their
company. I have lost many friends on
this account, and although I am aware
of the results I cannot refrain from it.
It see ins to be a part of me. and I know
I cause pain. What can I do?
PUZZLTD.
I am afraid you have a tendency to
want to seem clever, even at the ex
pense of others. Don't yield to it. Al
ways stop and think before you talk;
try to find kind things to say, and it you
can't, keep silent,
Don't Let Relatives laflaeiire Yo.
Dear Miss Fairfax: tVlll you kindly ad
vise, me if it is proper lor a girl of 22 to
marry a man of 28 wtih two children and
who has been divorced. He has been very
kind to his wile and she did not appre
ciate It. 1 knew his wife for three years.
I love him and the children dearly. Mr
mother is satlslled, but my married sister
and cousin and aunt say It is not proper
tor me to marry him.
HEARTBROKEN'.
P. 8. They are all discouraging me be
cause he has two children.
Your mother's advice ought to out
weigh all that meddling relatives can say.
Since you love this man and his little
children and feel that he was not to
blame for the failure of his former mat
rimonial venture, marry him by all
means.
Little Bobbie's Pa
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SECOND EPISODE.
la Pursuit of the Runaway llride.
CHAPTER II (Continued )
An electric coupe stood at the door,
.she slammed Into that, turned on the
lights and rolled away with as much
vigor as was In the capacity of her ma
chine. Bobfcie's runabout darted after her
and passed her. and then came the li
mousine, with Mr. and Mrs. Moore and
Ned.
P.oor June! It had bvien hard for her
mo leave those beloved voices down there,
in the ' library, but she had niuiie up
her mind very firmly that neither wlm nor
Ned could be. happy if she was, alwuya to
feel that sl.e was a .l.attel. h; ran
dack to the desk for Ned s photograph,
then slopped lightly out on tho liny Bide
A As a uK, this pearl-grey gab
ardine model will answer all
requirements. By clever draping,
the skirt is raised in the back over a
plain underskirt to give the effect of
a full tunic, while the belt of the
jacket loses itself under the loose-
fitting panel. The gray straw hat has
a taffeta bow.
-The ever useful top coats is very
serviceable; the new arrange
ment of the pockets, the unmistakable
flare, and the close fastening at tho
neck all adding to the comfort. The
skirt is a circular model hung from
a yoke. and fastening in the front,
and the hat is a saucy affair, also of
the corduroy.
For the morning here Is a
French blue linen dress, with a
black and white checked taffeta sas1!
drawn under buttoned straps In the
back and tied at the side. The fullnesii
of the skirt is achieved by three box
plaits, supplemented by another three
in the tunic. A yoke, buttoning at one
side, adds a new feature to the bod
Ice' .
To give the matlmdm of com
' fort a gusset Is put under the
farms of .this whip-serge sports coat
with patch pockets and yoke In
the back. To increase both the ser
vice and the appearance, an extra
panel conceals the under fastening of
the skirt. The crepe de chine skirt
is as mannish in cut and lu comfort
as the suit. . ' ,
By WILLIAM K. K1HK.
Ma's nefew rnlm up to th house t
uh last nlte. His first nalm Is Ianlel
e mivs he Is going to krn to be a judwe
urn day. Pa "ld him that while Daniel
as a grate Judge In his clay, there was a
lot of fellers naimed Dan that cuddent
It elected to be a .lustice of the peap
ven. AVhfU malKs you tntnn you ar
oln to mo a Judge? Ta sskad Ma's
efew.
I'.eekaua I have made up my mind that
t am going t" be wie, sd Daniel. I bee
lee ve that any yung boy can lera to be
nythlng that h makes up his mind to
be. Tlio way I do. sed Daniel to Fa, l
always frrglt the pa" ',v rn ,aV "
If thare had newer ben another day
wud newer be another day. Thare was
sum old British poet that rote a verso
like that, sed Ma's nefew. U went
With everv rising of the sun
Think of vine life as lust begun.
The past haa cancelled and burled deep
All yesterday, rnarc iei tnem nwn
That's the way I feel, sed Daniel. 1
m always starting oaver every day.
making tip mjr mind oaver A oaver that
I am going to be a grate Judge sum day.
You can t stop that kind of a sport any
moar than you can keep a iulrl on the
ground, sed Daniel.
I am not o sure of thai, my deer yung
frend, sed In. I have known excepshuns.
1 knew a brakeman oust, sed Pa, that
had made up his mind to be a song rlter.
He was bound ft dretermlned that he
wuti be a song rlter sum day, Pa sed,
he kep that Idea In bis hed A in tha heds
of his friends until h eevrn lost his Jon
the railroads, ft heever got to be any
thing ft and other thing,, sed Pa, that
Is the roug dop you have about ferret-
ting the past sltogether. The past Is a
kind of handy thing to reemember onst in
awhile. Pa sed. I rememler two or three
fiends of mine, Pa sed. thst did me
favors In the old days, ft lf I lived all
tho lime In the present I wvid fcrgit all
about them, ft on the other hand. Pa
sed, thai are two or three young; men
that have got Into mo for conslderabul
amounts lu tha past, ft I shud 'hate to
think that tliay was going to fergit sed
past. ,
If you are digging at me. sed Mas
nefew, 1 will hand you that ten next
payday.
Not at all. sed Pa. I dldent have you In
mind. I only menahuned the rounny part
of It to show you that it Isent rlteto
fergit all about tho past.
Yoa are wound bp pritty tight tonlte,
arent you? sed Ma. She dldent like It
beekauH Pa sed anything about mutiny.
Only meedlum rite, sad Pa. ; But I
want to Impress on our yung friend here
that Oie past Is not I be forgotten allo:
gether. Memory Is a wundertul thing.
Pa sed. 1 live a grate deel of my time In
the past. Suni of my happiest moments
sre spent in draaming .of my happy
childhood days, ft beesldes. sed Pa, wen
or are sad, memory brings thoughts to
cheer "ywu.' In the words of that old.
butlful song, sed Pa,
For memory Is the only trend ,
' That - Greet can call its own. '
Welt, sel Daniel, I guess I must be
going. Maybe I will change a tlttel, he
sed, ft live part oX the time In the past.
That's the way to feel, sed Pa, e.
pesliullly around payday..
In-Shoots
It is bolter to tell the pleasing brands
of truth when possible.
Some persons never miss
til tha boose gives out .
the water
A broken heart Is more easily mended
than a love-cracked brain
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hardwood floors if
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Threen-Ons Oil to. p
m a. cowy, . s.
porch, jumped down to the little em
bankment and fled, as light as a thistle
down, along the side of the houee and
out at the little grocer's gate.
Where now should she go? Tha apart
ments, their home, hers and Ned's! She
hurried up in that direction, but at the
first corner she stopped for an Jnstunt
and darted over toward Broadway. She
had realised three things almost simul
taneouslyfirst, that they might come
out of the Blethering house at any In
stant and see her; second, that she had
no key; third, that N,ed might come
there. It would be the most likely place
foV him to go In his loneliness. She sud
denly held her handkerchief to her mouth
to choke back a sob. On JBroadway she
hulled a parsing taxi. '
,
All was sparkling at Mierry's. but Gil
bert Blye had taken small share In the
hl'arlty. He had risen to go. when a
black-eyed young woman, the most viva
cious of the party, called him to task for
his evening of secret scheming. , "You're
up. to some devilment," she charged, play
fully tweaking his beard. "Come and
dance with me."
"Sorry. Tommy," he told her. with that
queer smile on his lips, "but I've a pre
vious engagement."
She can wait." pouted the girl. She
drugued Blyo away from the table.
"Take my car. Oil!" called the gray
n.ustnehed hoft.
"t'titainly," replied Illye, and the three
men exchangod o smile. "I'll dance one
round with Tommy, then I'll go."
Before tluit round was over, however,
Gilbert Hlye saw an upparttion in the
doorway, and his face turned cold. The
.apparition was a tall, angular woman,
who was trying to bore .Gilbert Blye
through and through with a double-eyed
glare of burning ferocity. He hurried
over to his wife. Fhe had shrilled:
"Who Is that woman?"
"I shall explain nothing," slJ Gilbert
"I'm through!"
He left her contemptuously, leaving her
stunned by this unexpected revolt As h
went down the steps he heard her shriek
ing something after him, and he hurried.
As he dashed oijt of the door he ran into
a niouu who were romiug In. Tbey weie
the MooieH.' the Klctherlngs and Ned
Warner, und l. w;iiipon them ami pant
them snd Jumping into the liikuriouady
furnlvhed r. icing liinou.ini', Hh the lit.
tie w uti l lii Mh band, before I'jey rcal
iio' that Ihis Has the man they were
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Science for Workers
By EDGAR LUCIE.V LARK IN.
Q I would like the formula for solder
ing aluminum. DANIEL M'CTJt.UJM,
New Haven, Conn. ,
A. Welding, I suppose, is meant.
Soldering aluminum Is difficult, but welds
are easy with the heat of the electric
current.
Q. "What is the velocity per second of
falling bodies at sea leveir'-C. U T.,
Alameda, Cal.
A. In 200 years of arduous toll it has
beta found that at mean sea level a body
having fallen In a vacuum during ono
absolute second of time hss acquired at
the exact end of the second a speed of
22.1 feet pr second. This priceless num
ber is the scale used by mathematicians
to weigh our own and other lar more
massive suns.
Q. You say there are U33 positive elec
trons in the nucleus of an atom ' of
hydrogen and four negative electrons
in rapid revolution around It. Can one
negative electron be taken away, from
the atom, and if so, what would hap
pen? B. J. DRYER, New York. , ,
A. Remove one negative electron of
the four and equilibrium would be de
stroyed and the hydroten woull vanish,
becoming resolved back ' Into primordial
electrons, einoe nothing exists but elec.
trons. t
Q. Is there any plu-e in the universe
where there . Is no light? ALLEN
ROSKNKINN8. Pennrield, Pa.
A. No astronomer can answer the
question, "Is there any place in space
where there is no, light" Astronomers,
tle'iecloracoplats, tele rial photo
graphers, cosmic dust and meteor re
sesrehers sre striving liourJy around the
world to kind whether there Is etentlon
or absorption of light in space.
It is known that light actually traverses
titstanocs of at k-at one quadrillion
miles from remote suns to the earth,
lrom all directions in the sidereal uni
verse. These rays are allowed to fail on
diffraction gratings to? analysis to fine
If wave-length are modified during flight
Hther.
ftonce at resent U unuble tw state
whether theie are ;.uiu five, ten or
twenty quadrillion miles away, nor If
thire are. Hhedier lhy ui uhle to send
Itglit out lii re to our irlnltt siinali
minute, uhiiufct ixa"'ly but nbt iiuite
mulling uf a world, the miili
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