The Girls of Egypt.
A CiLiao correspondent says : ' Girls become marriageable here at eleven, net seldom younger. If they do not marry by the time they are fifteen their chances are excellent for the life of an old maid. Marrying so young, entirely ignorant, even of housekeeping, tbey cannot be very good mothers ; bearing children before the/ cease to be children' themselves, they are old at twenty and withered when they ought to be in their prime. When the first school for girls was begun here the parents • would not send their children any more than |the farmers will use the Khedive's steamploughs and his improved instruments and ways of agriculture, and children were caught up in the streets and forced into it. Ndw a change has taken place, and the schools for girls, at least one of them, are so popular that the daughters of Pashas attend them. The Khedive's mother; who is not,a person of education, though of a strong mind, has greatly interested i herself in the education of girls.'
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1671, 26 June 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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173The Girls of Egypt. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1671, 26 June 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)
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