XXI. THE MOHAMMEDAN WOMEN OF TURKESTAN 263 XXII. IN FAR-OFF CATHAY 276 XXIII. OUR MOSLEM SISTERS IN JAVA 283 XXIV. THE MOHAMMEDAN WOMEN OF MALAYSIA 287 XXV. "WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME TO DO?" 293 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Facing page_ A MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER FROM TUNIS TITLE DAUGHTERS OF EGYPT 24 BARGAINS IN ORANGES 60 BY THE BANKS OF THE NILE 60 DOROTHY AND FATIMAH 78 ARAB WOMAN ENTERING SAINT'S TOMB 82 TYPES IN TUNIS AND ALGIERS 90 A YOUNG GIRL OF THE ABU SAAD TRIBE 96 A BEDOUIN GIRL FROM NORTH AFRICA 102 GOING TO MARKET--TWO BURDEN BEARERS 126 WOMEN CHURNING BUTTER IN BEDOUIN CAMP (Arabia) 136 MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, ETC. 160 A VILLAGE SCHOOL IN SYRIA--MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN, ETC. 170 A FAMILY GROUP AT JERICHO 176 MAT-MAKERS (Persia): INDOOR DRESS (Northern Persia) 228 MOSLEM WOMEN OF THE BETTER CLASS IN STREET DRESS (Syria) 264 A CRY OF DISTRESS FROM ALGIERS 294 "All that took them captives hold them fast, they refuse to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong, the Lord of Hosts is His name; He shall thoroughly plead their cause."--JEREMIAH l. 33, 34. "Deliver them that are carried away unto death, and those that are tottering to the slaughter see that thou hold back. If thou sayest, Behold we knew not this, doth not He that weigheth the hearts consider it and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? and shall not He render to every man according to his works?"--PROVERBS xxiv. 11, 12. (R. V.) "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are left desolate. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister judgment to the poor and needy."--PROVERBS xxxi. 8, 9. (R. V.) OUR MOSLEM SISTERS I HAGAR AND HER SISTERS "We must concentrate attention upon the mothers, for what the mothers are, the children will be." These words, spoken recently by a British statesman, are but the thoughts of many who have tried to save the children. And in looking at the millions of Moslems in the world to-day, and wondering why they are still as they were a thousand years ago, rather drifting backward than advancing, we turn to their women and find the cause. Mohammedan law, custom, and the example of their founder place woman on a level with beasts of burden and no nation rises above the level of its women.