educated than the first lady in the land. It is odd
that, while Moors are gentlemen born, their woman-kind, narrowed and
degraded, are in no sense aristocratic. They will stand upstairs and
shout "Come!" to any one who is calling upon them and waiting below.
"Sit down," they will say imperatively: it is always the imperative. If
they are asked to show anything, they will bring it and almost throw it
at the visitor's head. They have no "breeding."

Our hostess was thin, and not at all typical of a Moorish wife; for a
Moor likes a waist which he can barely clasp with both arms, and women,
when they desire to attract, fatten themselves at once. A woman who is
engaged, is crammed with sweet fattening pills and farinaceous food.

At one end of the room we sat in, was a gorgeous four-poster bed, hung
with scarlet, and covered with embroideries, the posts painted bright
green, and a great gilt crown on the top of all. When no furniture is
bought except divans and a bed, all the dollars can be piled on the bed.
We left a bottle of mixture out of the basket and a doll for the only
child, which would be treasured, for a bunch of rags is the nearest
Moorish approach to a doll.

From this house we went on to our hostess' old home, where her father,
the cowman, lived. The patio there was cold and bare, and seemed the
general living-room; some wood was stacked in one corner; there was a
well in another; there was an overpowering smell of "drains" everywhere;
while in the third corner a poor, miserable little girl sat huddled up,
with frightened eyes. Several families lived together in this small
house, and no fewer than six women crowded round the girl to explain her
symptoms to Miss Banks. It was only too apparent what was wrong, when she
uncovered her neck. Syphilis, hereditary--a terrible evil, to be found
all over Morocco, the result of Mohammedan customs and bad food.
Considering that women are divorced and remarried over and over again,
and that the conditions under which they live are so unhealthy, it is
small wonder if disease in some form or other does not show itself.
Examples are to be met with in almost any street--the features of the
face obliterated, and so on.

The poor child, whom Miss Banks was treating, had been married. Now that
this disease had broken out, her husband would probably divorce her. If
she were cured, she might marry again. Her friends had brought her all
the way from Shesaw[=a]n to Tetuan to be c