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Have you ever seen a Persian cat? They are big, beautiful animals with soft thick hair. They come from Persia.
Persia is one of those “once-was” or “used-to-be” countries too. It used to be the greatest country, yetmany people now do not even know exactly where Persia is and can’t even find it when they look for it on a map—for the Persian name for Persia is Iran and most maps now say Iran instead of Persia. As I look around me in my home where I’m writing this, I find, to my surprise, I can count nearly a dozen things that have come from Persia or are connected with Persia, though before I began to count I should have said not a singlething Persian did I own.
The rug at my feet was made in Persia, entirely by hand. It was woven of woolen threads in beautiful coloreddesigns and must have taken some Persian many months, perhaps a year or more, to make. Some Persian rugs aresaid to have taken one person the whole of his lifetime to make.
My wife has a silken shawl also woven by hand in Persia. The silkworms were raised there, the cocoons unwound, the silk spun into thread, dyed in many colors, and then woven into this shawl.
She has a ring set with greenish blue stones, called Turquoises. A turquoise is the birth-stone of December,and they also come from Persia. In some countries of the East people wear turquoises to keep away what is called the “evil eye.” They believe that some persons can do them harm by looking at them, and the turquoiseprevents this “evil eye” harming them.
