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Show f he peisiaii-Cfiilf fs-S :. : 'a -. : aSx : ' a - s ' . - . S i f. " ; - On the Shores of the Persian Gulf. TTIKP.E Is. a bit of seashore of such vital Importance to our world todtiv that thitherward is directed the anxious gaze ; of all the leaders of the nations. It! figures prornmentlv as one of the ques-! turns involved in the great war, is the i teriitory of an important campaign,) nnd was, in fact, one of the prime fac-; tors in the causation of the war. It has been a region of high importance ' since the first morning of our civill- ; zation, rich alike In history and fable probably the cradle of western culture, the playground of many empires gone . (and perhaps of others yet to come), j whose undulating sands anil hills hold i the ruins of sixty centuries. It is a ! haunt of tranccful dreams and infinite fascination, a latitude which can lay most plausible claim to the consideration considera-tion of all of us. And yet. in our time of knowledge, these coast lands, famous for ages, are scarcely known no more probably , than they were to the curious Creeks of Herodotus' time or to the Chaldeans who studied the Mars and the sea a dozen centuries earlier assuredly no more than they were to the geographers geogra-phers of Bagdad or the merchants of of prehistoric man in Europe. Southern South-ern Arabia holds the remains of what seems a very early and quite unknown civilization. Excavation may add a new and revolutionary page to the history his-tory of culture. Large parts of Arabia have never been explored by the outsider, some not even by the Arabs themselves, it would seem. The natives will tell you that certain sections are impassable. Some of this may be taTIcu v-tih n trills of reserve, fur wily desert merchants have been '-'.u to spread horrifying reports ur ' the fatal characteristics of this a 'ctlon or that that the very air Is rpoisoned thereby frightening away Moving tradesmen from the right 't'vf well-laden caravans. ve and Ruin. TJ ""L n ru?-ce bca 1 vcliffs and ra fro,.."V leal chani be-forgottcn rv lie Shiraz nnil romantic glory. Ii as Araby Itself. TaiX of slaves. When n . liaved himself sic -delig'Hfa yVent and child, I lomiilatlon of com yVTid mutual understand 'olid associates with tin lie voice of his sire muel S -nlty and poetry of lie bonl neard read. He Infers that ,. nmiinV nor this time I V 1 'ill ii Iiim- Imrk ; t own C't tvihy, ' MoUit'r'a jt ; Vp l oiir 1 in by. I.HiilihiK ynt. Hfihy wHl nmy 1 :lm lch nt harm, v Wliilo ln'tuMiIh Ih mul).T arm, i J 'own kocs l;ity, WThout fpar: Vp cfMiirs lmly, iiully hrn. All Ih Joy for hnby wliilo -r something f ,. ,,. author, and he carries win", him 11 jtrateful memory ,,f ,,, UKy man who laid aside his large affairs In order to give pleasure ( ,,, hoy. A father's voice can vitalize the printed page to his son even before on comprehend the written in nn';hr7';V'1 " 1 derst'and IheTTir"'-0 ,lu'v '-reason '-reason that tho v.TyS"'''1- f"- H lad or the drift of the sl"f '"'l-Ihem. '"'l-Ihem. It was good to seeSV" 11 led to comprehend. It developed thM'''ve aglnallon. They are growing towaTljl womanhood now nnd they are alii to tell me that they remember thosn nights when I rend to iheiu, with an emotion which they find It hard til-tlngly til-tlngly to express. I gave them both. In this way, a feeling for glorious verse, and a love for choice words which has been of the highest value to them up to this time, and which will Increase. In value as the years pass. In 1 1 to IWat or nintnorn ninlii'. l'lm her return the little mother expressed great admiration for my skill as a baby-charmer. "It was1pilti'f simple," I said and described what had happened. She was much Interested ami wanted lo know more about Froe-bol's Froe-bol's Mother liny. A few days laler when she came to i-id I I had my old worn copy or the .Mother liny ready lo show her. II surprised her lo learn that this book v. L i i -1 1 Is used so much by kindergarteners kindergar-teners was written especially for mothers moth-ers with children up lo kIx years eld, and she li IciumI engerly as I showed her the sly or seven rninc" which baby might play. My new acquaintance ac-quaintance Ihauked me most appreciatively ap-preciatively for Ihe help I had given her and when she left she carried tho little hook away with her lucked under her arm. |