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23 when he was sure she was one of the family he was seeking. For a man to stand by while a woman does such hard work as filling the stone troughs around a well for animals to drink from is not according to our notions, but it is still right in Palestine. Ideas of a girl’s accomplishments vary in different countries. I once asked a Japanese if young ladies in Japan were taught anything — meaning, did they go beyond what they learned as children. “Certainly,” he said, a little indignantly; “every Japanese young lady is taught the arrangement of flowers and the etiquette of making tea.” “What a different world from our own,” was all I could think. Abraham sent his servant this long journey because he wanted Isaac to have a wife who believed in the true God as he did. The people who were filling up the country where Abraham dwelt, and most of those who lived in Mesopotamia, worshipped idols. We see, further on, in Genesis, when Jacob and Laban separate, that Abraham’s family worshipped God; but