Educating Moslem Girls Faces Deep Resistance in Arab World
The passage discusses the challenge of teaching reading and writing to Muslim women in Arab societies. It quotes a Tripoli mufti fearing letters to improper people and argues that educating girls without training the mind leads to mischief. It mentions Luciya Shekker and Miss Whately's Cairo schools and their efforts to win mothers' support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli
Saheab
Luciya Shekker
Whately
Cairo
Windsor Attend Divine Service and Royal Tour Updates
The Queen and Princess Beatrice attended Divine service at Windsor. They plan to stay at Osborne until mid August then move to Balmoral. The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany visited Windsor and Marlborough House, with a royal dinner and events at Bedford and Woburn Abbey.
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Beatrice
Windsor
Francis Pigou
Doncaster
Osborne
Balmoral
Leopold
Brechin Castle
Earl of
Nora
Panbride
Germany
Sandown
Windsor Castle
Prince
Princess of Wales
Marlborough House
Crown Prince
Princess of
Bedford
Duchess of Bedford
Woburn Abbey
London
Prince and Princess of Wales
Earl
Countess Sydney
Ivor
Cornelia
Louis
Marchioness of
Chobham
Aldershot
Russia
England
Mitchell Henry
House of Commons
Duke
Reform association urges uniform suffrage and shorter Parliaments
The Expectoral Reform Association proposes equal representation and a redistribu tion of seats, compulsory parish registration, longer polling hours, relief from official expenses for candidates, and shorter parliaments. Mr George Smith reports on Nineveh excavations and early Assyrian tablets, with potential breakthroughs for linguistics and Egyptology.
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George Smith
Smith
Society of Biblical Archeology
Nineveh
Henry Rawlinson
Mr. Smith
Sennacherib
Quips and Anecdotes from a Past Era
A collection of light vignettes and humorous remarks from an old newspaper page. Jests about ministers, editors, pronunciation, and gender roles mingle with a river rescue tale and a Bunyan prize anecdote. The tone mirrors late 19th or early 20th century humor pages.
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Christian Register
Merrimac
New Orleans Picayune
Bress
Dumfries
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Earl of Derby
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Lord Hampton
James Hannen
David Davies
M.P
Gwern-y-goe
Montgomery
Stroud
Baron Bramwell
Dorington
Stanton
London ‘Committee
The
Agricultural Labourers’ Union
Blackheath
W. C. Bennett
Gladstone
Colonial Office
Malcolm
Board of Trade
Henry Calcraft
Edgware
W. P. Warner
Welsh Harp
Hendon
Kingsbury
Court of Queen’s Bench
Eton
Harrow
Lord’s
Worcester
Maybury
Staffordshire Advertiser
Tree
Mc. Tree
Ketch
Scotland
Martin Gilboy
Edinburgh
Bolton
Atherton
Admiral Ramsay
Earldom
Nathaniel Rogers
Holborn
Corporal Young
Association
Lords and Commons
Middlesex
Ireland
Notts
Westminster
Garnet Wolseley
Atkinson
Durham
Stockton-on- Tees
Wimbledon
Rae
Lanark
Hlewnings
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