Wide stretch her verdant terraces,
Her palace-homes among,
Where Hebrew maidens wake the lute,
And raise the holy song.

They dwell in ceiled houses,
With gold and cedar wrought;
Bedeck'd with robes of silken sheen,
By Tyre's proud merchants brought.
They are the chosen of the Lord,
A people great and high;
Why doth the gentle Saviour mourn,
And sadly weep and sigh?
Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

Thou city of the King,

How oft would I have gather'd thee,
Beneath my shelt'ring wing.

I waited to be gracious still,
I stayed the avenging rod,
I sent the prophet and the seer
To cry, Return to God.

Ye mocked my messages of love,
Ye dared your awful fate;
Behold your mighty house is left,
Forlorn and desolate.

For this He wept; His prophet eye
Beheld the coming time,

When Judah's God should rise to take,
Vengeance on Judah's crime.

When 'neath the fierce invader's tread,
Where once a garden smiled,
Should stretch a barren wilderness,
Sterile and waste and wild.

And He, who holds the Ocean's waves,
In the hollow of His hand,

Wept tears of human sympathy,
Over the Holy Land.

HELEN.

Printed at the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palestine Place

Bethnal Green, N. E.

THE

CHILDREN'S JEWISH ADVOCATE.

OCTOBER, 1857.

JEWISH WOMEN.

THERE is nothing more curious than the dress of people who live in different parts of the world. These people have taken up various customs and ways of dressing. They are not like the English, who are continually changing the style of their clothes; but in some of these countries it seems as if they are attired like their forefathers, who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago.

Our readers have a group of Jewish women on the frontispiece, taken from a photograph at the Hospital in Jerusalem. Some of these women are sick people who are in the Hospital, while others are employed as servants. The Committee, knowing that the prejudices of the Jews are very strong, have always employed Jews and Jewesses to take care of the poor sick.

The woman leaning against the wall, is one of these servants. Any one who has been at Jerusalem, will know at once that she is a married woman. This is seen from the curious headdress which she wears, which is a kind of stuffed cap, something like a turban, which is put on and secured to the head. Girls of fourteen and fifteen are seen with these head-dresses, showing that they are married.

The

On the right hand side, sitting upon the low wall, is another of the Jewish servants. Her head-dress shows that she is unmarried. cap that she wears is something like the shape of one of the red tarbooshes worn by men in the East, only the colour is different. This is also tied down to the head; but any one looking at her will know that she is not married. This difference of dress must be very useful in a country like the East.

Our friend Mr. Calman appears in this picture, as well as some of the patients who are in the Hospital. To the left is one of the neat clean wards in which the female patients are placed.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

(Continued from p. 202.)

THERE is another Jew, who, although not under instruction, is in a very pleasing state of mind.