Vol. XX.—No. 987.] | NOVEMBER 26, 1898. | [Price One Penny. |
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FROM LONDON TO DAMASCUS.
ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.
THE RESULT OF OUR HOLIDAYS NEEDLEWORK COMPETITION.
LESSONS FROM NATURE.
THE GIRL'S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPETITION.
FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW.
VARIETIES.
ECONOMY.
OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES;
"OUR HERO."
OUR PUZZLE POEMS.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
OUR SUPPLEMENT STORY COMPETITION.
OUR NEXT STORY COMPETITION.
JERUSALEM.
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Elizabeth and I mounted a camel and took our last schimmel hauer,or airing, in Jaffa the beautiful. As our ungainly steed swung up theroad with us on his back, and a peculiarly contemptuous expression onhis face, we became objects of much curiosity to thenatives, who stopped to gaze and point at us. Wewere amused to see the women in their excitementstand with unveiled faces unmindful of the men, whoequally excited had joined them. Their remarks on ourappearance were not exactly complimentary. "Lookat the Frangi ladies, how they sit! How funny theylook! The Frangis are all mad! See, they smile!"We did not understand Arabic, and our missionaryfriend was too kind to translate freely, otherwise wemight not have smiled.
What a glorious morning it was! The remembranceof it now brings a delicious dreaminess over my senses.It must have been on such a day that Lothair and theradiant Mr. Phœbus journeyed from Jaffa to Jerusalem,when the lovely Euphrosyne "rode through lanes ofdate-bearing palm-trees, and sniffed with her almond-shapednostrils the all-pervading fragrance." Sharon,the great maritime plain, once a huge forest, from whichit takes its name, lay stretched before us. In the midstof its magnificent orang