A. straw shows which way the wind blows; and that the custom the sexes by curtains trams in Turkey has Just boon abolished is worth reflectig on. In Egypt, too, things are moving rapidly. "The Egyptian Women's Union has succeeded in its efforts to raise the marriage age for girls, and in future marriages of boys under eighteen and of girls under sixteen years of age will be illegal. Quite recently also the Order of the Nile was conferred for the first time on a woman—Mlle. Nabauia Moussa, director of the "College for the' Progress of the Egyptian Girl" and Inspector of Government girls' schools. But, of all the Eastern countries, it is India which continues to lead the way at an amazing rate. In that land of. magic, as we all know, it is quite a [simple matter to produce a full grown tree at a moment's notice, or. to lay at your fect an object that may be hundreds of miles away be fore you have hardly expressed a wish for it. And the growth of the women's movement, though in no way occult, has some of the same ssu. rising features about it!
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