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Salim and Samaria. There remains a fifth, the Plain of Sha ron. Our party was headed north, making for the province of Galilee, with Naaa reth and the Sea of Galilee as our ob jective point a TWO ROUTES. In the time of our Lord there were two routes from Judea to Galilee, one leading through Samaria and the other east of the Jordan. So now there are two routes from Sa maria to Galilee. One follows the up land route and leads by Dothan, Jenin, Jetreel. Endor. Nala. Shunem and across the Plain of Eadraleon. The other la the valley route. It leads across the Plain of Sharon to the Mediterranean tea, then along the shore to Mourn Carmel, around the head of Monnt Car mel to Haifa, and then back to Naza reth. The former route is much shorter tn miles. But it is much rougher. They are building a carriage road now along that route, which would give a contin uous carriage road north and south through Palestine from Hebron to Ti berias. But It is not yet completed. A gap of some miles, amounting to about a day's journey, remained in it when we were there. It was impossible, there fore. to go that route m carriages. It could have been traveled only on horse back. Some members of our party were on horseback, and they at first thought of leaving the carriages and going the upland route. But as it would have In volved a separation of a day and night from the carriages, and as there were only a few of the party on horseback, it was concluded that it would be better for the whole party to stay together. And so as the carriages could not go the upland route, while the horoes could go the valley route, the whole party took the valley route. While we should have been glad to see the places along the other route, all of them with an In teresting history connected with them, yet we enjoyed very greatly our ride across the PLAIN OF SHARON. There are two great plains running along the coast of Palestine, one north of Mount Carmel, called the Plain of Akkaon Acre, the ocher, much larger, south of Mount Carmel, called the Mari time Plain, or the Sea Plain. This is di vided into two other plains, known as the Plain of Phillstla. or the Philistine Plain, from Jappa to Gaza. and the Plain of Sharon, from Mount Carmel to Joppa The Plain of Sharon is 44 miles in length, by from •to 12 miles In width, between the centra! range of mountains and the Mediterranean sea. It is one of the most fertile plains In aU the world. Despite the fact that it has been cultivated from time im memorial. Its soil is stlh rich and yields • abundant harvests year after year. Thia is due largely to the fact that what Jtttle soil is consumed in the production of crops by the shallow methods of cultivation which have obtained for een t arise— tickling the soil with a crooked BROKEN ARROW LADY SAYS WELCOME * Mrs. Guffey, of Broken Arrow, Says Few Words That Mean Much Broken Arrow. Okla.-'Tou are wel come." says Mrs. Nor* Guffey, of this place. ’Io use my letter in anyway you want to, If it can be the means of Induc ing some suffering woman to try Cardul. the woman's tonic. Since taking Car dul. I am in better health than I ever was, and that means much, because 1 suffered many years with female trouble* of different kinds. What other treat ments I tried, helped me for a few days only." Every woman would always keep Car diff handy if she knew what quick -'-nd permanent results it gives, in cases where weakened vitality indicates the need of a strengthening tonic. Remember that Cardui is a purely veg etable extract, composed of valuable medicinal ingredients, which have oe*n found to build up the vitality, tone up the nerves, and strengthen the womans ly constitution. Cardui has been in successful use for more than 50 years. Thousands of women, all over the country, know by actual experience wliat it will do. for the ailments to which women are peculiarly liable. That it has helped others is the best of proof that it will help you. Try it. Ji. 8.-Wnti to: ladies' Advisory UsfU.. Cbattasosga Medteise O-. Cka(tso*ci. Iran., tor Special tnatracuaaa and MPM’ nous. "Hone Treatment for Wamea,’’ seat is plala wraooer. rvouesu XDGAB B. FOLK. stick and a short grubbing hoe, and reaping the grain with a hand sickle has been replenished by the washings from the limestone rocks of the adjacent hills. And thus the plain is kept for ever fertile. When we crossed it on the 18th and 19th of April, 1910, it was cov ered almost from one end to the 'other with wheat ripening in the sun and waving in the breeses. They do not raise any corn at all, only wheat and barley. It was a beautiful sight, one of the prettiest I ever saw from an agri cultural standpoint—land level as the floor, covered aa far as the eye could reach with wheat and barley inter spersed with occasional grass plots on which herds of cattle or flocks of sheep or goats were feeding. No fences mar the scene. Few trees obstruct the vis ion. Here and there the landscape is dotted with villages. There are very few of these villages, however, in the val leys or plains of Palestine. Nearly all of them are built on a hilltop or hillside. This is partly for the purpose of saving fertile lands for cultivation and princi pally for protection from enemies or marauders. There are no farm houses as we have, such houses isolated from other houses. Every one lives in a vil lage or city, for mutual protection. A VILLAGE ON THE PLAIN. The first night out from Bhechem we camped near one of these villages. Ka kun. It has a population probably of 800. maybe as many as 1,000. In the day the men work in the fields, or lead their herds or flocks to pasture. At night . "■ * The plowman -homeward ends his weary way" , and the herdsman or shepherd Wads his herd or flock to shelter from the weath er, from beasts of prey ana especially from robbers. THE VILLAGE WELL. There is only one well in the village, as is usual with villages in Palestine. It was a short distance from our camp. It is a kind of cistern said to be filled with rainwater, surrounded by a broad stone curbing. Here the women and girls of the village come to get water for drinking and cooking purposes—not for bathing purposes. I psesume, »for there would hardly be enough of it for that And oesidea, they do not seem to use it that way. Here the men come in the morning and at night to water their herds and fiocka The will is a meet ing place for -e children In tne after noons. It was an interesting scene to watch them —men, women, children, cat tle, sheep, goats—as they gathered around the well. The result, you may imagine, was to render the ground around tne well sloppy, muddy, and alto gether tn a not very sanitary condition. A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE. A visit to the village gave us the op portunity which we had long wanted, of seeing the homes of the poorer class in Palestine and observing ho* they live. The houses are built of atone or dried mud. mostly the letter. They are low. with an opening answering to a door, but no windows. They are usually two stories high. The first story is flat on the ground. This is literally "the ground." In this story are kept the cattle and shoe pand goats and chickens or other live stock belonging to the fam ily. It is necessary to keep them under the eye of the owner, or otherwise they would be stolen. The second story of the house is in the same room as the first story. It is simply a raised plat form, about two feet higher than the first story. This Is the famifr room It is also their bed-room, dining-room, reception hall and parlor. There are no chairs, no bureau, no washstand, no bed. no furniture of any kind, except a quilt on which to lie gt night. The kitchen consists of a hole in the side of the room. In which is placed an oven where cakee of wheat or barley bread are bak ed. This, with occasional flesh or fowl, constitutes the family meal. The fuel' consists of manure, gathered bv the wo men. made into cakes and dried in the| THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1910. NEW CORSET MODEL CONFINES HIPS ONLY 1 4 w f \I \\ V M A LhM Il KI <un v ' v>.w! A * *ll The apparently uncorseted figure made Its appearance in Paris some time ago and has recently been seen on our own shores. Some of these figures really are uncorseted, but the majority of them wear the new corsets, which are said to ba the proper thing by Dame Fashion & Co., corsetieres. These corsets are merely hip conflners. They extend only a few inches above the waist where they are held cloae to the figure by elastic. The skirt exten sion Is cut on corset lines with boned gorings. A brassiere should be worn to confine the body a little more than does the ordinary loose frivolous garment worn by the average woman. This evolution in stays has evidently been brought about by the vogue for the high waist line and the mandarin bodice. But whatever the real cause, the wise women who adopt the fashion are going to be both healthier and more comfort able. But it wm living, and that was all the inhabitants of th* village seemed to care for—simply to live. In fact, it is about all that the Turkish government, with its abominable oppressions and ex actions, will allow them to do. The government tax on camels Is 40 cents a head, on sheep 20 cents a on cows 20 cents a head. This for those poor people is a great deal. Strangely enough, there Is no tax on a horse or donkey. Olive trees are taxed so much a tree. Sometimes in a bad year, when the yield Is small, it 13 cheaper to cut down the tree than to pay the tax on it. SOCIAL CUSTOMS. As to their social customs, every man. according to the Korart, may have four wives. Each man usually has tyo wives. Girls marry at the age of from *l2 to 18. Girls are not educated. When I asked if they are, the reply was, ‘‘Why should they be?” Boys are taught reading, writing and something from the Koran. The sexes dance separately. There is lit tle Immorality. The men wear dresses coming down to the feet. On their heads they wear the fez In the cities and towns. In the country they wear the turban, a large cloth wrapped around the head and held on by a contrivance resembling what the wemen of our country would call a “rat" The women in the cities are distinguished from the men by their heavy evils, covering and hiding the whole face in Palestine and Syria. In the villages, though they do not wear these veils and are distinguished princi pally by their long hair and perhaps by the cut of their dresses, though I con fess that I was hardly sufficiently versed in the eastern style of clothing to tell the men and the women apart very readi ly- AN INCIDENT. The men an> women are not expected to be seen together In public. I had rather a striking Illustration of this in my own experience. The roads through the Plain of Sharon are not macadamized, as they are from Jerusalem to Hebron, Jericho and Sachem. They are just plain “dirt roads,” as we would call them in this country, except that the dirt is often sand. They are fairly good, but travel over them, is rather slow. The horses would seldom go out of a walk. To re lieve the tedium of the long ride, and in order to take some exercise, a number of us walked a considerable part of the way, easily keeping up with the car riages, and sometimes getting a little ahead of them. The weather Was fine, the air bracing, and walking was very pleasant. Several of the men were walk ing with lady members of the party. I among others. The lady with whom I was walking and myself hadr got a lit- EVERY THIN WOMAN Can Have a Superb Figure Without Paying a Penny / Every woman wants a full round bust, a sym metrical figure and shapely limbs. So no woman who reads tine generous otter should, in fairness to herself, fail to respond to it. 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Then, to my surprise, I discovered that the contest was hemmed in by conditions. These conditions specified the use of a shortening made by the manufacturer who was paying the newspaper to conduct this cooking school. In stead of using that shortening I had used Snowdrift Hogless Lard, manufactured by The Southern Cotton Oil Company, which I knew from long experience to be the best and the most healthful shdrtening on the market. My use of this shortening was through ignorance of the conditions, and a certain knowledge that the best results at the least expense could be produced with Showdrift. The fact that my biscuit were awarded first prize bears' out my opinion. That is what I thought the cooking school hoped to .accomplish. As soon as I learned the conditions of the contest I of course declined to accept the prize even though my biscuit had been pronounced the best. However? I think you, as brokers for Snowdrift Hogless Lard, the best shortening on the market, will be interested to know that judges retained in the interest of a competitive manufacturer, awarded the prize to biscuit baked with Snowdrift. Yours very truly, . , ' (Signed) Mrs. Harry Andrews 1008 South 20th Street. I . A Partisan Cooking School, similar to this, was conducted in Atlanta recently tie ahead of the carriages, and were just behind the pack mules. This lady, I should say, had had occasion to do a very special kindness to one of the serv ants, and was very popular with them. In the field were a number of young Arabs. Seeing the lady and myself walk ing together, they came close to the road side, began pointing at us, laughing and jabbering something which we could not understand. We thought they were simply guided by an idle curiosity, such as would lead a crowd of young people in this country to follow a party of Chinese passing along the streets of one of our cities or towns, and more espe cially along a country road. I thought, perhaps, they were amused at what were to them the peculiar costumes of the for eigners. So we paid no attention to them, but kept on our way. Several of the servants on the pack mules seemed to be lingering behind watching us. espe cially the one to whom the lady had done the kindness. All of a sudden, as the crowd of young Arabs was pointing at us, jabbering and laughing, this serv ant surprised us by breaking out with VIOLIN B>\free JI *• n This l« a fine, hand- |M. .11 clear tone, good I sire Violin of highly pol- I I lahed, beautiful wood, I I BR ebony finished pegs, fin- j I ger board and tail piece. 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Or rather, they were making insulting remarks. Not understanding the remarks, however, we did not know that we were being insulted, and so did not take the insults to our selves. But the servants understood, and they were very Indignant, especially the one who had made the remarks quoted. He went back to George, our dragoman, riding in the rear carriage, reported to him what had been said, and wanted to whip out the young Arabs. But George very wisely advised him to let the mat ter drop, which he reluctantly agreed to do. The incident showed several things: 1. The opinion in which women are held In the east. 2. The power of kindness upon any one, however humble. 3. That it is often best not to take an insult, but to pass it by unnoticed. 4. The feeling in Palestine between the Musselmans—or Moslems, or Moham medans—and the Christians. George, otfr dragoman, was a Christian, and so I understand were all of our servants. 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