The civilized girl does not spend her time on adornment; nor on visits where the only subjects of talk are gossip and tittle-tattle and the trivial affairs attached to them; nor on dancing — and on other things besides dancing whose excess, when one gives oneself over to them, yields nothing but harm — and much else that we need not enumerate...
The truth is that a few of our girls have begun to take up the way of life which the civilized girl of this twentieth century ought to follow; we see her turning her attention to all, or to some, of what you behold on these pages.
And may the time not be long before we see the Arab woman generally taking an ample share of this civilized life...
For the truly civilized girl: (1) has a taste for music and plays its instruments; (2) learns the art of photography...; (3) grows flowers and tends them herself; (4) studies the sciences and acquaints herself with the secrets of nature...; (5) skis upon the snows...; (6) spends the week-end on the farm...; (7) goes out hunting...; (8) and throws herself into the arms of the sea...
But perhaps you will object, Madam, and say: "These pursuits are mere externals. A girl may be civilized without resorting to the study of
