Syrians, attitude toward miracles, 21; attitude toward conception and birth, 22; customs of, at birth, 28; attitude of, toward the stars, 31-36; their custom of kissing, 70; life revolves around a religious center to, 81, 82; their daily language is Biblical, 87-90; have no secular language, 87; mixture of piety and hatred characteristic of, 94; expect to be judged by what they mean, not by what they say, 115; love to speak in pictures, 115-17; their use of figurative language, 117; their regard for leaven, 150; the dialects of, 175-78; hospitality of, 205-30; family feasts of, 231-38; their use of the words _shelter_, _house_, _refuge_, 241-45; live for the most part out of doors, 241, 242; have no word for _home_, 243; lovers of their homes, 243. _See_ Oriental, Syria. _Sûhad_ (sleeplessness), 388, 389. Table appointments, 222, 320. Tares, 146-49. Tare-sickness, 147. _Tennûr_, for use in baking, 201. _Tent_, the term, 243. _Thaub_ (gown), 121. Theology, the course of, has been from the West to the East, 405. Theories about Christ, 410. Thigh, placing the hand under, 367-69. Thorns, 289, 290. Threshing, 290, 377-80. Threshing-board, 290, 377-80. Tiles, 271. Timepieces in Syria, 277 n. Touch, divine power imparted by, 393-95. Tourists, books by, 8, 10. Traitors, 67. Traveling, in America, 246; in the East, 247-58. Treading, the grapes, 283, 377; the grain, 290, 378. Treasure hid in a field, parable of, 161-66. "Treating, " 62. Unleavened bread, 150. Unrighteous judge, parable of the, 179, 180. Unveracity of the Oriental, 107-14. Vengeance, Oriental idea of, 91. Vine, and the fig tree, the Oriental's chief joys, 280; symbol of spiritual as well as physical family unity, 280; the church as a, 281; the family as a, 281. Vineyard, blessings for the increase of, 25. Vows, 16-18, 49. Wakefield, Mr., quoted, 162. Wallet, the, 250. Washing the feet, 226-28. Watching for the dawn, 387-89. Wedding songs, 247. Weddings, 221. Wheat, measuring, 265-67; plucking and eating, 291; threshing, 377-80; miraculous increase of, 384; the grinding of, 400-03. Wild beasts, 307-09. Wills, 155. Wine, the method of making, in the East, 282-84, 377; sweet and bitter, 284. Wine cup, the mystery of, 280. Wine-drinking, 15, 237. Wine press, 282, 283, 377. Wise Men, the, 27, 37, 44. Wolves, 307.