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 "A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure."

Infidelity is severely censured, even if not actual, but of the imagination.

"Now the adultery of the eye is to look with an eye of desire on the wife of another; and the adultery of the tongue is to utter what is forbidden."

May we not believe that throughout the Orient the following beautiful conception of passionate love is cherished by many men and women?:—

"Four eyes met. There were changes in two souls. And now I cannot remember whether he is a man and I a woman. Or he a woman and I a man. All I know is, there were two. Love came and there is one."

On the other hand, the segregation of women has its flagrant disadvantages. There can be no true social intercourse between the sexes, and no reciprocal understanding of each other's spiritual and mental needs and aspirations in societies wherein men and women move in entirely separate spheres. A girl entering the harem at twelve years is destined for the rest of her life, unless she deserts, to spend long indolent days in the company of her own sex.

Her sole desire is to become an ikbal, a petted play-thing of her master, and to receive his lavish gifts and favours. The outside world scarcely exists for her. Too often she has had little or no education; she lives