THE DISAPPEARING VEIL.

Shannon News, 8 January 1924, Page 4

THE DISAPPEARING VEIL.

EGYPTIANS? max CtfATlON. • POLYGAMY Ont&e decline. Tlie harem arid "the veil are little seen to-day in EgyptJjjntes Madame Charawy Pasha, president of ™ Egyptian delegation which_ atte thf Borne Feminist E? Soi -i. SnaMM rensoni E"votian law compels a m^ n . care for his children diction as to whether mate or illegitimate, and this ,19 1“ too heavy an expense for the modem though still worn occas s’onally has become, nothing mor . than an instrument of coauetre and an accessory to the Jemima* An Egyptian husband no longer forces his wife to wear a veil when she goes outside the home. The principal reason for the evolution of feminism in Egypt has been the spread of primaiy and _seeondary instruction’. Elementary schools for girls are springing up u Egypt every day, while in Cairo there are many schools which, like ® American, admit boys and girls on terms of equality. - Egyptian. Women have for tw6 years •been eligible to become doctors, but. they cannot yet be lawyers, nor can they hold office in d gbverhffient. Certain adversaries of feminism have argdWd that the laW of Mdhomet is agdirist the emancipation of women. This is not true, however, for a study of the Koran will reveaj that it urges many times the equah lights of women and, in particular, gives women the power of divorce. The women of the Orient have escaped the bonds of slavery which held them for centuries; they have emerged into the clear light of day, eager to do their share of the worldswork.