Rev. Henry Harris Jessup seventeen years American Missionary. "The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born." Mt. Lebanon Proverb. This book is dedicates ti the christian woman of America. This book, "The women of the ArabsWith a chapter for children", by Jessup Henry Harris, Charles Seymour Robinson, Isaac Riley, is a replication of a book originally published before 1871. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.