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An . Oasis In Kingdom of Hedjaz.
(Prepared by the National Oeoirraphlo
Society, Washington, D. C.)
A KAMA has become the scene
of one of (lie world! latest
threats of war. Id the past
few years the desert Bedouins,
tinder the leadership of the sultan of
Nejd, have gained control of all cen
tral Arabia, as well as Mecca with Its
state of Hedjus, Aslr, ami tnrge areas
of eastern and southern Arabia. Now
they are threatening to push their op
erations northward Into Iraq and
northwestward Into Trans-Jordan. The
seriousness of the latter threats lies
In the fart that Iraq and Trans-Jordan
are both mandates of Great Brit
ain, Between them lies Syria, a man
date of France.
Arabia bus been fljrurlng In world
affairs since the curtnln rose on the
first act In history and yet It has
large areas about which we kxow
practically nothing. Because of the
hut:e bulk of Asia, Its numerous pen
insulas are somewhat dwarfed, and
one may fall Into the error of classing
Arabia with peninsulas nearer home,
such as Florida. But 60 Floridas would
be lost In this great Asian projection ;
It Is. In fact, a third as large as the
entire United States.
Tremendous desert wastes are not
alone responsible for the fact that the
outside world Is Ignorant of the Nejd
In Hie bean of Arabia. That country
If the area over which the Nejdian
nomads roam may be called a country
has one of the most effective exclu
sion laws known : the exclusion law of
the sword. These people do not care
to co Into the outside world, and they
want no visits from Western traders,
diplomats, military experts, or mis
sionaries iieclally missionaries.
They are blood-thirsty fanatics on the
subject of religious simplicity. As
Wahabla they are perhaps better
known to the world than os Nejdlsns,
for the former name they owe to their
religious associations.
Thtlr Capital a Ferblddtn City.
The capital of the Nejd, Iliad, where
was born the movement that threat
ens to embrace all Arabia, baa been
more truly forbidden city than
Lhasa. The only Westerner known to
have visited It In recent years was an
American physician, smuggled In that
tie might save the life of a chieftain,
and It If believed thnt even this er
rand of mercy would not have saved
hlin from summary execution save for
a little group of defenders who for a
brief time stretched their standards.
' After the World war Great Britain
paid the ruler of the Nejd a huge sub
sidy $ WOVXK) a year, an "honorarium"
four times os great as the salary and
allowance of the President of the
t.'nlted States. The young sultan took
the cash and let his followers go about
their forays pretty much as they
wished, with the result that Great
Britain hnd to spend much more than
the subsidy defending the kings of
Iledjnr, Trans-Jordan and Iraq against
Incursions.
Ihn Pa Mil. the sultan of Nejd and
king of ilcljuz. has combined his polltl
en I and military drive for a unified
Arabia with a revival of Wahtiblstn
The Wnlmlil sect was founded early
In the Eighteenth century by Abd el
Wahab. who might be termed the Cart
wrlght of Mohammedanism, for be
was essentially a Moslem PurT.on
seeking to turn his faith back to what
he considered Its simple fundumen
tals. Feeling that Mohammedanism
should be uncompromisingly mono
theistic, be was particularly disturbed
l.y the ii-ndeticy to worship Moham
med, w ho claimed '0 be only a mortal
its well os Allah. Me also found his
ca-rellu'lonlsts Invoking Moslem saints
nd preached against this practice
After Wnhnh died his fanatical con
verts wrecked the eluhonite tomb ol
Moflem tenchert and even Went so far
us to try unsuccessfully to destroy the
dome over the tomb of Moha mined at
Mxllna.
Before his death Wuhuh converted
to his simplified faith a powerful sheik
of central Arabia. Mohammed Ihn
Printed Velvet for Evening
A delightful new evening ensemble
consists of very simple frock of
black velvet printed with a design of
brilliant popples. Over the dress Is
worn a cape of the same unusual vel
vet
I
New Bags and Scarf
i Fascinating new bags, envelope In
ahnpe, nnd short fringed scarfs are
made of unusual silk woven In wide
stripes, with an Indefinite pattern In
silver through the stripes.
Saoud. He beenme both the religious
and political bend of Wahuhlsm; and
he, too, took a leaf from the funda
mental teachings of Mohammed and
began spreading bis faith by tbe
sword.
Iraq, one of the areas threatened, Is
the modern name for the traditional
Garden of Eden historically kuown as
Mesopotamia. The cradle of civiliza
tion. In the belief of many archeolo
glsts and historians, Is this very val
ley of the Tigris and F.uphrates rivers.
Iraq and Its King.
Iraq lies between the Arabian des
ert on one side nnd the Persian up
lands on the other. West lies the
French Mandate of Syria; north the
Kurdish highlands of Turkey, The
Persian gulf forms a corridor 1,000
miles giving Iraq a waterway to the
open Indian ocean. Pates from "the
Garden" come to New York by way of
this corridor. Within Iraq live 3.sX),.
OK) people, a slim population for soli
which once supporti-d more people per
acre than does densely populated Bel
glum. Great Britain has made her Meso
potnniinn mandate the Arab Kingdom
of Iraq ruled by a Mohammedan
prince, the son of the former king of
Hedjai. King Felsal reigns where
Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans,
Persians. Greeks, Itomnns and Sara
cens ruled successively for six cen
turies. Of the three principal cities, Moul.
the oil town, seems safely beyond
reach of the Bedouins. Bagdad. In the
center of the valley, comes by Its no.
sltlon of capital honestly. Basra, In
the Far South, Is the end of what was
to have been the Berlin-Bagdad rail
way. Much agricultural land has been re
claimed by Irrigation In an effort to
revive the luxuriant Carden of Eden.
Dates from the date palm are the
chief product. Wheat, barley and rice
are also grown. Experiments looking
toward cotton growing have been pro
moted. Vegetables and flowers thrive
In the protecting shade of pnlm fronds.
Trans-Jordan Full of Nomads.
Trans-Jordan, the other threatened
region, lies In the northwestern corner
of Arabia adjoining Palestine. Per
haps It will bring tbe newly Independ
ent but very old country closer to
realize that Its capital, now Amman,
was once Philadelphia the great-great-great-grandfather
of the Lalf
dozen or more Philadelphia, greit
and small, that are to be found In cut
postal guides. But It was only a mere
matter of twenty-odd centuries ago
thnt the city took the name Philadel
phia from Its new lord, Ptolemy I'ldl
adtlphus. It had existed as Itabhnth
Ammnn, chief city of the Ammonites
almost from the days of Lot, fiom
whom the Ammonites are said to have
sprung. It was after a victorious bat
tle with these same people of Amman
that Jephthah, according to the Bibli
cal story, returned to the fatal meet
ing with his daughter.
When Trans-Jordan Is descrllied as
stretching from the Jordan and the
Dead sea toward the Interior of Arubla
one Is likely to call tip the picture of
a ho(K-less desert. But much of the
region Is stepie land, high plain
supporting some flocks and even capa
ble of tillage. Nomadism has long
held the region In Its grip, however,
and It Is as a sort of "chief of no
mads" thnt Abdullah Ihn Hussein finds
It necessary to rule. He holds his
"court" not In a pnlnce but In a
group of tents which be moves with
the seasons.
Amman Is not Inaccessible. Five
hours by automobile over ressouniily
good roads through the sizzling valley
of the Jordan sulllce for the trip from
Jerusalem to the capital. The .lor
dan forms the boundary line and
across It Is an Iron bridge. Amman
Is only about thirty miles from the
river, and as the crow files Is hardly
more than than sixty miles from Jem
salcin. The Hedjax railway, connect
ing iiomuscus and Medina, runs
through the town.
"Lady" Dress
Lustrous sheer gray velvet with
sprig of lavender flower in It fashion
a sweet afternoon dress that la so
feminine ns to come under 'he "lady"
dress category II has a triple tiered
skirt and Its sleeves flur at three-
quarters length, with a long, slender
cuff underneath
Turban for Fall
The tu ti n In any i f tin variations
nnd the pe'-c- cloche are the oiilslnnd
Ing features of the millinery for full
Employer (Interviewing would-be
lady clerk) Where wore you lust em
ployed !
Girl In a doll factory.
Employer Doll factory I What did
you do there!
Girl 1 was making eyes.
Employer Very well, you're hired.
but don't demonstrate your capabili
ties when my wife Is about.
That'$ Right
Bridget nnd Pat were studying the
law of compensation.
Aecordln' to this," said Bridget,
"whin a man loses one sense his oth
ers are more developed."
"Sure an1 OI've noticed It." ex
claimed Pat. "Whin a man has one
leg shorter than the other, begorru,
the other's longer."
CASTS 'EM IN THE SHADE
She "Tour brother casts all other
business men In the shade? Itemark
hie. I think." He "Well, at. least
all those who use his goods he's
window blind manufacturer."
Eternal Diualis faction
Let's talk about the weather.
At seasons drift aInnK,
And lift (ha thout miiether,
"Whatever la, la Wrong:"
Our Fellow Creature
Her Husband Whul do you want
with a horse! We have two cars and
you don't ride bonehack.
Mrs. Good sole I know that., Put
horses are becoming so scarce each
member of our Good Deeds club has
pledged herself to keep at least one
horse to feed the starving horseflies.
Well Enough
They were seated across the table
from each other In the restaurant, the
wealthy octogenarlun and the gold
digger.
Will you marry me If I have my
health rejuvenated?" he asked
'I'll murry you, all right," she re
plied, "but you leave your health Ih
way It Is."
In Love
"Why Is Elolse on the roof with a
telescope?"
"Aw. she's looking for a letter by
air mall."
NO MEN OR WOMEN BORN
Visitor "How many men and
women were born here Inst year?"
Native "None, hut the number of
babies was quite large."
Unappreciated Menu
For proper bait I wit Inclined;
The price I paid at plenty, sura
I hunt; tround (or houn to And
A Onh that was an tplcure.
The Grand Scale
Mis. Howurd When my daughter
first married she lived at the rule of
fifty thousand a year.
Mrs. Jay How long did they, keep
it up?
Mrs Howard For their seven day
wedding trip.
In the Suburb
"That's my place you see over
there the bouse and the garage close
by."
"Which Is the garage, old man?"
Enumerating the Thing
Miss Dill Don't think I'm us stupid
as you are. 1 know a thing or two.
Mr. Hollownut You know u thing
or two? What, fr Instance?
Miss Dill Well, you're one of them
and then there are several more
simps like you.
Eye Front
"I got ell turned around coming out
home this afternoon."
"No wonder. You shouldn't gaze
at the girls so much."
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