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Reducing The Staff

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Day
14
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The new shah of Persia has been reducing what the Figaro calis "the feminine staff of the palaee" at Teheran. He has kept only CO wives, and finds the total sufncient for dignity and withia the limits of a v.ise eeonomy, says the Pall Mali Gazette. The family tree of GO wives has at present put forth branches - twenty-three daughters and four sons; and here we have the usual inequality of the sexes, always ;'.t its worst when polygamy exists. YVhether Muzaffer-ed-Din is though raarried, and much married, the record does not state, but things seem to show that polj'gamy is on the decline in the Persian court. The last shah, in spite of his predilection for western habits. was as lord of the harem an ea stern in heart and soul. He had in the seraglio at Teheran the magnificent total of 1,720 wives, who now are widows. In the new American Bible of the wonen a passage is denounced with special bitterness by the feminists of the day. It is the. one in Genesis where men are ealled the sons of God and women are the daughters of men. In the case oí the late shah, one son of the Divine was maintaining 1,720 daughters of the earthly. Surely this was a eonscientious effort to malte up in quantity what was wanting in quality. Tedious Work of Old Bookmakers. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries monks frequently isolated themselves from the world and reproel uced the Bible in illuminated manuscript. The work was necessarily slow and in no intrtance was it accomplished in less than 35 years. Guido de Jars was a producer of the illuminated manuscripts and a beautiful specimen of his work was sold along with the books of Sir W. Burrell in 1790. This copy of the Bible had occupied half a century in its production. A note in the beginning of the manuscript in Jars' hand writing indicates thathe began his task in 1244 and did not conclude it till 1294.

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Ann Arbor Courier