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 THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS

mals and women, the animals on the ground floor and the women upstairs both created and kept in captivity to work for man. You can tell a Christian from a Moslem house from the fact that the Moslems put lattice-work over the windows. Otherwise they are the same. While Christians do not seclude their women, they have nearly the same ideas about making them work.

Miss Hallie Wallis has her home and dis- pensary near the Girls' School, in a house built with a blind wall toward the street, and win- dows opening only on the court. Within the court an outside stairway, mounting to the bal- cony, leads to the living part of the house. When I went to call, I got into the hospital side. Miss Wallis popped out of her office to receive me and led me into a waiting-room which, although furnished only with a few car- pets and divans sporting wide-meshed native crochet tidies, was cozy. At the door were the patients' wooden clogs. In one corner a

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