Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — A Good Word for the Harem. [ARTICLE]

A Good Word for the Harem.

A lady who has been a governess so/ two years in a harem in Cairo, which brought her into contact with the ladies of the court, speaks very highly of the harem as an institution. She says: “I do not mean to assert that there are bo evils in the lot of the Eastern female, but I do assert that she commiserates her Western sister, who Juts not that “sanctity” guaranteed through the exclusiveness of the harem. Where the most abject hut is the sole shelter of the family, woman is sacred from the intrusion of men who are not her hindered; i her veil serves all the purposes of the harem in protecting her from Insult when abroad; no man dfire attempt to lift a woman’s veil.”