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AN ARMENIAN FAMILY UNDER PATRIARCHAL RULE
Under thousands of years' struggle for mere existence, the Armenian
household has held to the strict rule of the grandfather. An absolute
monarch, he gives orders and the rest obey; they speak when spoken to.
Only in his absence is the eldest son his own master. A girl marrying
into the family is an uncomplaining servant, under the grandmother
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ARMENIAN MAIDS AT SCHOOL OR PERSECUTION A SPUR TO EDUCATION
Long before the war, the Armenians adopted education as an instrument
for preserving their nationality. Then the schooling offered to
the neglected girls by America and other missions came into favour.
They were the best refuges in Moslem periods of slave-making and murder
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