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The Women of the Arabs

CHAPTER VII
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Her brother and relatives from "Wady" are on the most affectionate terms with her, and her elder sister is in the domestic department of the Beirut Female Seminary.
This change is very largely due to the efforts of Mrs.De Forest, whose name with that of her sainted husband is embalmed in the memory of the Christian families of Syria, and will be held in everlasting remembrance.

The _second generation_ of Christian teachers is now growing up in Syria.

Three of Mrs.De Forest's pupils have daughters now engaged in teaching.

Khushfeh, Lulu, and Sada el Haleby; and Miriam Tabet has a daughter married to Mr.S.Hallock, of the American Press in Beirut.
FRUITS OF DR.

DE FOREST'S GIRL'S SCHOOL.
In the autumn of 1852, there was a school of thirty girls in B'hamdun, a village high up in Mt.Lebanon.Fifteen months before the teacher was the only female in the village who could read, and she had been taught by the native girls in Dr.De Forest's school.


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