HUET SFOn, LODAY TAD 
ARAB WOMEN 
olive trees under cultivation, and they 
cover an area of about two hundred 
thousand hectares. 
The cereals now grown in Tunisia are 
wheat and barley, oats, corn, and what is 
known here as “sorgho.” ‘The latter is 
of great value to the native, and is a sort 
of poor man’s wheat when other crops 
fail. Three varieties are grown—white 
sorgho, used for food; yellow sorgho, 
which makes rather a coarse meal, and 
another variety, used as a chicken food. 
April 13 marks the commencement of 
the Jewish “Feast of Unleavened Bread,” 
or Purim, when no business is done and 
unleavened bread must be eaten for 
seven days (Exodus 12 : 3-30). Beside 
each door in the Jewish quarter of Tunis 
was a bloody stain of the hand of 
Fatima.” 
WATTING AL CEMETERY CATE 
It is curious to see how Moslem and 
Jewish traditions become intermingled 
in the course of centuries. Fatima was 
the beloved wife of Mohammed, and her 
hand is supposed to bring good luck. 
Yet today on all doorways was the blood 
stain or imprint cf a woman’s little hand. 
Last night 90 Jewish weddings took 
place, and that quarter of Tunis was “en 
fete,” and every one, dressed in their 
best clothes, was walking about in the 
narrow streets to see the wedding pro- 
cessions. 
The noise was deafening, as each 
marriage procession was preceded by na- 
tive Arabs beating tom-toms and play- 
ing bagpipes or flageolets; small Jewish 
children in native costumes followed, car- 
rying flowers. Then came men relations 
and friends bearing very tall and gaudy 
