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4 about automobile transportation to Tabriz and thence to the Russian
e1 border, I found that for the following three days all roads leading to
J Resht (which included the Tabriz road) would be closed, in anticipa-
j tion of the arrival of the King and Queen of Afghanistan, for whom the
e pute was being prepared! That being so there was nothing to do but
l to return to my Teheran pension again, and wait, which I did. ( I was
in Teheran, incidentally, when the Afghan king arrived, and with others,

got many a smile out of poor- old Persia's attempts to preen herself for
n his coming. Transported bodily to the stage, the whole would have made
d a perfect musical comedy! The excitement of the whole country when
j the Afghan Queen came without the usual "chaddar," or face covering,
W in direct defiance to the wishes of the mullahs, or Mohammedan teachers,
e! was incredible. People think it will do more than any single thing that
s has happened recently to help pull the Persian women out of the primi-

] tive seclusion in which they still live and move.)
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l While I was waiting in Teheran for the roads to reopen, I received
1 another most unexpected invitation. A man who was also living at the
a pension, and who was driving a car from Saigon (in French Indo-China)
e! to Paris, via Moscow, invited me to drive from Teheran to Moscow with
H him! I t was too wonderful a chance to miss, and I waited i n Teheran
-] for the necessary permission for his visa to come from Moscow. I t did
! not arrive, however, before the fifteen-day period of grace allowed to me
w (as to everyone) to get across the border into Russia began to approach
d] its end, and I finally had to go on alone, in a public motor!

(And to Russia we will go in January)

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j school age. Another group is studying the pre-adolescent and doing
j work that any college would regard as very creditable. On off days
M 1 am sent to speak to Parent-Teacher organizations or to any other
m club whose regular speaker has failed them.

m Not long ago an undergraduate asked me what sort of course she
m could take that might lead to a good job and that would be usable
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g t h ^ :a f t < r s h e she > -e v e r d i d 8irl
n was —m a r r i e d if of course The nad
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^ e makings of a good teacher, and heaven knows we could use a
^ w > so I promptly urged her to go in for that, getting in addition to
!*e necessary hours in education, all the child psychology available
her college, as well as some actual experience in a nursery school.

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m rec uests than can be filled for 10 16 w h o h a v e had
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c o r n K - P >t r a i n i n R a n d e x and certainly it is the sort of thing that
erience

b m e s well with the job of having some children of one's own.