Amid the Uprising in Persia
By Mrs. F. W. Oster
WE left Maragha by night with the Russian army of 8,000 men retreating from Miandoab. I rode the horse with our four-weeks-old baby while Mr. Oster led him. That first night and day, I kept the saddle for fourteen hours without a rest. We fell off the horse once right in a small stream. A soldier helped us a bit. He thought baby was a bundle of something we did not wish, so he threw her over to one side of the road. She was not injured. Baby seemed to enjoy the ride, and did not care how much she was jolted. We are not yet out of danger, for the Turks are stronger near the boundary; and with the Kurds to help them, we surely have something to fear. About 10,000 Russians are here, but we do not know when they will be called away.