THE ARAB HUSBAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10

THE ARAB HUSBAND.

» . — In "A Pilgrim's Scrip" Mr. R. Campbell Thomson gives the following description of an Arab husband's callousness : — ■ "These poor women age quickly, and wither like an old applejohn, and their husbands regard them not in their later ugliness. D'aim, the watcher, had thought to let his wife die, that, 6aid the gossips, ha might marry a second, for though Mohammed allowed four wives to each man. yet rarely more than one is taken by these poorer folk. For one winter's day, as the snow lay on the ground, I rode to the mound and found that D 'aim's wife was lying Bick in 1 the little hut of ancient bricks, eating nought, and thus had she continued uncomplaining for three days, whilo the Arab husband, thinking complacently on the will of Allah, sat in unperturbed content where the men were digging. "Rasping words brought him to bestir himself, and, at threats of dismissal if his wife died, his face went yellow, and he hasted to mount my horse to fetch meat for soup from the market; another went to bring milk from a homestead near; another to roll a billowy tent to be a. bed for the poor woman, for she was lying on the ground. A tire sprang up, water boiled, and presently a broth was made, and next day (such is the vigour of these moequins) ehc ent up nuriinj her kteet babe."