aving a remarkable effect on the minds of both
men and women. I rejoice, and am delighted with your love for
race and country, and praise especially the articles
recommending the education of women.

"Some days ago, the children were reading, and I was listening
because I take such an interest in the writings in the _Guide_
that I am constrained to defer the most necessary labors, till
the reading is finished. You have spoken well about the poor
unfortunate women; but first the men must be educated; because
the girl receives instruction from her father and the wife
from her husband. You reproach these ill-starred women, because
they are addicted to superstitious practices. Your humble
servant makes a petition that they are not so much to blame.

"In this very city I know men of the first rank, who have even
travelled in Europe (I will not mention their names) who are
superstitious to an incredible degree. Before putting on a new
suit of clothes, they consult the astrologer and look in the
calendar for an auspicious hour, and if shoes or other articles
come from the bazaar at an unlucky moment, they return them
till the stars shall be more propitious; when they contemplate
a visit to royalty, or to Government officials, they take the
chaplet of beads and cast lots to ascertain a fortunate time.
Is it then strange that women believe in written prayers,
fortune telling, and the _istekhara_? You write that in a
foreign country you have seen men who had fled there to escape
their wives. You are telling the truth, because, indeed, the
women are a thousand times more incapable than the men. And why
should they not be, who always sit behind a curtain wrapped in
a veil? The husband can flee from his wife to a foreign land,
but what of her who is left behind: her arms are, as it were,
broken, her condition remediless, hopeless? For her, there is
but one place whither she may flee--the grave! Look, and you
will see in every cemetery one-fourth of all are men's graves;
the rest are of women who have escaped their husbands by death.

"Again you speak of their ignorance of domestic economy, the
rearing of children, the avoidance of contagious diseases, etc.
When a poor woman is taken to her husband's home, it is true
she knows nothing of these things, and does not make home
comfor