Show WORK IN SYRIA COoki nir anil and curing caring for tho ren anil and ailt i lazy I azy social there are grand wom women on in arabia Av women orrien of ability keen ine insight ight anti and won von dorfel capabilities the duties of tile wife of a syrian today are ns as follows sho brings bringa all the water for family use from a distant well this is accomplished d by fill filling ilig immense jars and ariu an i 6 them upon her head site she rises car early ly and n d gots goes to the handbill liand hand mill of tho the vil village laZe carrying crying corn enough of which for the lay day a broad bread six she grinds by a slow laborious process tina site ho carries cardes bome and cooks in ill an oven m which ilich is made in tile the earth it is a round liole hole lined with oval and afi flat it stones and licater by a fire cro built in it when the broad bread is ia mixed with water and a little salt slit she removes tile the ashes and plaste plasters pi asters s lit little lo 10 pats of dough against the hot stones to cook chui coui could d anything bo be more crude sho cares for her children usually a largo large family and does docs nil ill the rough work at intervals while the devoted husband calmly smokes his ar argelia geli or sits crois legged upon liis his dhan or liou couo c top in ill con i creation will aith some equally equall y hard working et member of syri syrian an society ali alii houses kiouses are made of a coalso stone roughly liean tile housetops ire are cf clay coveted with coarse gravel in bot weather the lie sun run bakes this mud inui formed roofard roof and large cracks appear tho the rain comes and as a natural consequence the roof leaks tin this s is something of which the fa tas tid tinious lious inhabitant of the dibic land does docs not approve it does not add to his bodily comtois com colli folt ire iio remedies lem ieni edies tile the did df deculty culty shall I 1 tell you liow not by any of liis his own tar far from it his wife comes ascends to the housetop and in ill tile the drenching 11 eccli rain min pro a toiler louer of solid stone backa backward ard anti and fol foi wai waid d macli as we use ubo a lawn mower this rolls the sun suit shied cracks together arid and prevents pi events the entrance of water these thebe are only a few of a syrian house cifes duties lier her reward is not in this s world surely slie site cannot speak to iier her husband in public slie site can no caress before his friends sie goes ea veiled and scantily clad site lias has no time limo to make her own habiliments lor for her hands must weave and spin ind and em embroider broide r artistically lis icalla and abundantly for the husband and the male children in ili winter iier her feet are protected only by open wooden sandals and drops of blood mark her way to the syrian well tin this s is no estr extraordinary tiling thing but by those who have fare repeatedly seen it I 1 have been inborn d ot course this is among the lower arid and middle classes of society in but those who belong to a higher class are very very few tile the swiss cross |