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Show WOMEN SLAVES IN PALESTINE. Gentle Sx Nothing but Part of the Household Chattel. In l'Hlcbthic. the mother of men Is the HrrvatK ut men Helim a part of the household . itittelrt, she Is old foi M InrRf n hiiiu Hi her father can ox tort from tht prospective brldenronm She In a thing, a piece of good. The father of a first hoi u noii proudly calls hlnmelf after tho hoy's imine. hut hi girl bahe is not reckoned among his children Her infant shoulders learn to boar the hardens, her little feot patter pat-ter their wa to the fount uln oven from tho moment their liny strength can support the weight of a Jar. Her whole life la one or grlndinc. bakhiK, fetching water, wiiiiliig iikh others, at twelve sho in sold Into married senico; growing old lu middle lifo, nh nm) see hemelf mipplanted by n younger wire, often being robheil of her sons by tho mllltno conscription, and finally ahe Is put uvvny as the last brwili Is leavlnu her body. Cor-win Cor-win Knopp Union in tbe Meiropoll tan -Magazine. |