Word: bokharas
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...story entitled "Ink", which appears in the current issue of the magazine. "Ink" is a slight story. Its heroine, a girl who "has assuredly passed the dancing debutante years" and is approaching "the gardening, auction, book-club age of thirty," receives a love letter and a piece of Bokhara embroidery from a somewhat sentimental young man in India whom she has kept dangling for years in a state of miserable uncertainty. Her niece, who is a flapper, spills a bottle of ink on the Bokhara embroidery. Then, and not until then, does the heroine realize that she is in love...
...Williams contributes to the February number a sketch of Bokhara. It is a story of the reform of the affairs of the Persian kingdom by the Emir, who was called the "Father of the Wise." To turn the thoughts of his people from sordidness to the knowledge of higher things, the Emir hit upon the "Sand Plain of Bokhara." a City of Truth to the dwelling-place of sages from every nation. In this way was inaugurated the celebrated school of Bokhara...