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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 7, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 23.

Mission Work for Girls

Mission Work for Girls.—Here is an item from a recent report of the girls' school at Tabriz, Persia: "A Kurdish chief visited our school, and when he had heard the girls recite, seen their needlework, heard them sing and talk in three languages, when he himself had examined the little girls in Turkish and the seniors in Persian, he threw down his book and exclaimed that he 'had heard, but the half had never been told' him. 'Who would think,' he said, 'that girls could ever learn to do all these things? But our girls, what do they know? Why, compared with your girls, they are mere donkeys.' And he left, saying he prayed for the day when Kurdish children, too, might be in school."