The Side Dish Bible

I. The Oriental family --
The Bible --
Oriental color --
Overturned customs --
The "father" --
No courtship --
The son --
The Father rules --
Patriarchal rule --
Semites and Hebrews --
II. Forming the oriental family: betrothal --
Love-making unknown --
Girl's gifts --
Wife-seeking --
Matchmaking --
The contract --
The dowry --
How settled --
How paid --
Second marriage --
Exempt from duties --
III. Marriage processions --
Parades in public --
Bridal costumes --
Bride's procession (in Hauran, --
In Egypt and India) --
Bridegroom's procession --
The midnight call --
The shut door --
IV. Marriage feasts --
Great feasts --
Its magnificence --
Its variety --
Congratulations --
Unveiling the face --
Wedding garment --
Display of gifts --
Capturing the bride --
In Old Babylonia --
V. The household --
Training a wife --
Primitive order --
The social unit --
Childless --
Divorce --
VI. Oriental children --
Joy over children --
The son-heir --
Family names --
Why given? --
The babe --
How carried --
Child growth --
Steps and grades --
VII. Oriental child's play s and games --
Shy and actors --
Kinds of plays --
Toys in the east --
Ball games --
Athletic games --
Children happy --
Japanese children --
VIII. Education of oriental children --
Child culture --
Religious motive --
Oriental schools --
Trained in manner s --
Oral teaching --
Hebrew graded system --
General knowledge --
Teachers --
Subjects of study --
Value of training --
Hindu education --
Purity taught --
IX. Relation of parents, children and servants --
Obedience --
Son seeks advice --
Slaves in the East --
Children as slaves --
Mixed classes --
Women secluded --
Women, slave companions, retainers. X. Woman among Orientals --
Woman degraded --
examples in orient --
Hebrew women --
Moslem women --
Eating with men --
Queens --
Peasant women --
Wife divorce --
Growing odious --
Divorces one-sided --
Woman a drudge --
Women concealed --
XI. Social intercourse --
neighbors, kinsmen --
Social basis --
Social visits --
Guests --
No privacy --
Greetings --
Sitting and conversation --
Topics tabooed --
Refreshments --
Politely detained --
Going with the guest --
Greeting and parting --
XII. Social intercourse --
Salutations --
Salutations important --
Makes bonds --
Salaams --
The delays --
The strict etiquette --
Returning salutations --
Shalom "Peace" --
"Grace" in salutations --
Symbols and gestures --
XIII. Social intercourse- hospitality --
Tokens --
A foe-guest --
Stranger-guest --
Lot and Job --
Arab hospitality --
Presents, not pay --
Hospitality rewarded --
Hospitality unrewarded --
Public guest-room --
Pay resented --
Questions --
Treatment of guest --
Anointing guests --
Bible instances --
Proverbs on hospitality --
Lodges --
Khan, inn --
Menzil --
Fed by strangers --
Not eat alone --
Token of friendship --
XIV. Eating and meals --
Vegetarians --
Eating raw grain --
Milk --
Butter --
Bread --
Flour unbolted --
Kamaj --
Nutrition --
grain pits --
Cooking --
"Mashee" --
Locusts --
Wine --
Diet and meals --
Wash before eating --
Why wash --
Dining furniture --
Place of honor --
Chief dish --
The guest --
Desserts --
XV. Dress and ornaments --
Costume healthful --
Turban and Aba --
Kuftan --
The girdle --
String of coins --
Dress in Africa --
Dress in Syria --
In walking --
Signet --
Nose rings --
earrings --
Chains and mirrors --
Korean dress --
XVI. Diseases and medicine --
Evil spirits --
Leprosy --
Dr. Post on leprosy --
Leprosy in Palestine --
Demon possession --
Barber-doctors --
Shepherd-doctors and dogs --
Feeding lepers --
The insane --
Oil and honey remedies --
Medicine-man --
Sick everywhere --
XVII. Mourning and burials --
Hysterical display --
A Syrian case --
Death shriek --
Lamentations --
Cries and dirges --
Endangers life --
Burial --
Wrapping the body --
Spices in burial --
Embalming --
Rending the garment --
At the tomb --
Weeping at tomb --
Tear bottles --
Yearly mourning --
Cutting forbidden, wailing --
Good burial, comfort --
XVIII. Land tenure --
Tribal titles --
Personal titles --
Buying land --
Allotted land --
Climate and soil --
XIX. Oriental occupations and professions --
Tent life and herds --
Edenic picture --
Two occupations --
Oriental farmers --
Grain --
The farms --
Sowing --
Life work --
The Plow --
Barley harvest --
Hunger limit --
Time of harvests --
A "barley cake" --
Sowing and reaping together --
Two seasons --
Reaping --
gleaning --
Parched grain --
Threshing --
Ways of threshing --
Treading grain --
Winnowing and sifting --
Granaries. XX. Fruits and vines --
Kinds of fruits --
Figs --
Early figs --
The olive --
Old olive trees --
Olive and peace --
Olive oil --
Proverbs on olives and figs --
Oil press --
Use of oil, etc. --
Grapes --
Pruning --
Vineyards --
towers and watchmen --
Dried grapes --
"Dibs" --
How kept --
"Bottles" --
Apricots, etc. --
Carob tree --
Mulberry --
The palm --
Pomegranate --
Sycamore --
XXI. Shepherds and flocks --
Shepherd life --
A poet --
His loving care --
Syrian sheep --
Stray sheep --
"Rod and staff" --
Sheepfolds --
Flocks --
"Broad-tailed" sheep --
Fattening sheep --
Shepherd dog --
The wool and skin --
Black sheep and goats --
Goats --
Flocks of goats --
Wild goat --
Separating flocks --
Wealth in flocks and herds --
Shearing --
Trumpets --
Shepherd's peril --
Watering flocks --
XXII. Cattle and camels --
The ox-herds --
Wealth in --
In sacrifice --
Stall-fed --
Mule and ass --
The horse --
Wheeled carriages --
War horse --
The camel --
The "ship of the desert" --
XXIII. Fishing and hunting --
Syrian monopoly --
Fish nets --
Drawnet --
Fishing by night --
Fish laws --
Modes of fishing --
Hunting --
Snares --
XXIV. Traveling in oriental lands --
Caravan --
On camel back --
Camel's habits --
The swift camel --
Camel mounting --
Going in crowds --
Roads --
On foot --
Travelers' supplies --
Children traveling --
Girdle and staff --
Ships --
By mules --
Footman runner --
XXV. Warfare --
Warrior --
Body guard --
Oriental sword --
The dagger --
African warriors --
Covenant of peace --
Spoils --
Warrior customs --
XXVI. Mechanical arts --
Metal and wood workers --
Workshops rare --
Metal vessels --
Silversmiths --
Carpenter --
Crude tools --
Oriental skill --
XXVII. Trades --
Honorable and humble --
Master craftsmen --
Sit at work --
Pay in advance --
Trade guilds --
Tent-making --
"Bargains" --
Basket makers --
XXVIII. Music and musical instruments --
What is good music? --
Oriental musical scale --
Hindu musical scale --
Musical instruments --
Three kinds --
Wind instruments --
Of percussion --
Songs --
The viol --
XXIX. Oriental writing --
Public scribes --
Samaritan law --
Seals --
Traditions --
How kept --
Records --
Books --
Letters --
How written --
Reed pens, etc. XXX. Buying and selling --
shops, bazaars --
Shops --
Buying --
Bazaars --
Markets --
Credit --
The café --
Women shoppers --
Silos --
Shops in clusters --
Some odd customs --
Fairs --
XXXI. Oriental dwellings --
Cave dwellers --
Rock refuge --
Nomads --
Tents --
Family tent --
Tent apartments --
Groups of tents --
Hebrew tent life --
Beside ruins and groves --
charm of tent life --
In the tent door --
Tent furniture --
XXXII. Oriental houses --
Houses --
Peasants' houses --
Building material --
Rooms of house --
The roof --
The court --
Entrance --
Gates --
Sleeping rooms --
Beds --
Plan of Egyptian house --
Of bricks --
Syrian housetops --
"Upper room" --
Mud walls --
Staircase --
In India --
XXXIII. Khan, caravansary, inn, storehouse --
Kinds of inns --
Bare lodges --
Castle khan --
Persian khans --
Syrian inns --
Bethlehem inn --
India rests --
Storehouses --
Stone pits --
XXXIV. Property, taxes, righting wrongs --
Personal rule --
Divine right --
Head of all --
Not law, but custom --
Possessions --
Tenants' rights --
Rights in cities --
Inheritance customs --
Taxes --
An example of robbery --
Suffer vs. suits --
The victim --
Criminals --
Bribes --
Extortions --
Debtors --
Prisoners --
The jailer --
XXXV. Religion and morals --
All devout --
Not pious --
Not moral --
Profane --
Display in worship --
Saints and holy men --
Belief in unseen --
Nature worship --
God's friend --
A covenant --
An expression of worship --
Religious membership --
Ecclesiastical organizations --
Pillars of worship --
XXXVI. Prayers and vows --
Use of God's name --
Personal names --
God a "charm" --
Prayer --
Gestures in prayer --
Praying in public --
Prayer by moonlight --
Custom universal --
Prayer beads and cylinders --
Repetitions --
At mosques --
Order a merit --
Prayer places --
Prayer postures --
Dervishes --
At prayer --
Beggar dervishes --
Howling dervishes --
"Dancing" dervishes --
Mystics --
XXXVII. Offerings and sacrifices --
Votive offerings --
Thanksgiving --
Of fruits, etc. --
In India --
Vicarious --
To saints --
Sacrifice, covenant --
Meditation --
Conclusion.