Life and light for woman . o other training class, we findit very helpful to place some of our younger graduates in the kindergartenfor a year before they go out to teach other schools. These children lookhappy, and indeed they are. • igo8^ Evolution as Seen in Turkey 11 You have seen only a part of our nearly five hundred pupils. If youcould see some of our schoolrooms with no seats or desks, and hardly anybooks,you might ask, How can you keep school without these bare neces-skies? But we have willing Christian teachers and eager children, andthat is what makes a school a school. EVOLUTION A5
Life and light for woman . o other training class, we findit very helpful to place some of our younger graduates in the kindergartenfor a year before they go out to teach other schools. These children lookhappy, and indeed they are. • igo8^ Evolution as Seen in Turkey 11 You have seen only a part of our nearly five hundred pupils. If youcould see some of our schoolrooms with no seats or desks, and hardly anybooks,you might ask, How can you keep school without these bare neces-skies? But we have willing Christian teachers and eager children, andthat is what makes a school a school. EVOLUTION A5 5LLN IN TURKEY BY MISS ELIZABETH S. WEBB(Missionary of the W. B. M. I. and Teacher in the Seminary at Adana, Central Turkey) ONE day years ago the following letter was received by us in Adana :This is to warn you that within a few days Mariams mother willwrite you to send her daughter home, saying she is sick and needs her ; butknow that it is only a plan to get her into their hands to marry her to aworthless young FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD PROTESTANT BRIDE IN CENTRALTURKEY The handkerchief over the face must on no account be removed inpresence of outsiders. 12 Life and Light \_ January Could it be possible? Our little Mariam ! She was only one of the littlegirls of the school still in short dresses. But forewarned is forearmed, sowhen the letter came a few days later word was sent back that Mariam wasvery busy in school and we hoped they would be able to manage without her*.Soon the mother herself, having suddenly recovered, appeared with thefather, boldly asserting her real purpose. Persuasion not availing, Mariam was carried oft by her parents, and atonce engaged to a man whose reputation was tlioroughly bad. They said V ?
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