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WOMAN'S LIFE IN TURKEY
oW THEY are housed and
E WATCHED AND RULED.
English Girl In Pera—Turkish Ha
rems— Turkish Doga and Turkish
Vfomnn— How the Sultan’s Doctors
£ TB Treated.
From the St. Louis Republic.
It has been glibly asserted of late that
gaslish society in Constantinople is malting
jts influence so strongly felt that in many
families the Turkish women are being edu
(ated almost on an equality with the Eng
jab, and enjoy the same privileges and
freedom as the foreigners in Pera, the for
ejgri settlement of Constantinople. If this
19 the case much must have been done in
three years. I lived in Constantinople in
IfiSS, and the condition of things Was very
different then.
The Turkish women were mere slaves for
thru master’s use, ignorant of the first
rudiments of education and living like pris
oners in their own homes. Indeed, it is
almost impossible to soe anything of Turk
ish women except of the lo v\ est class, beg
gars in the bazars who plague you for
baksheesh and break through the native
custom and unveil their faces for some
handsome foreigner who seems attracted by
their gleaming black eyes. I have followed
the journeys of some old. discarded, Lou
drm-buiit brougham, jolting over the rugged
streets of Stamboul and crossing the long
wooden bridge, over which it is said
you never meet two men of the same na
tionality coming abreast. It is a half mile
long and connects Pera and Galata with
Stamboul. The faded green blinds of the
carriage are drawn closely down; it will
pull up by the side of the wharf where the
K spborus steamers lie and hundreds of
c.uaues with Turkish boatmen in loose, white
crepe blouses are waiting to be hired. Three
or four women will get out, conducted by
one of the eunuchs of their harem, with
their faces completely hidden by their yash
maks, and step into a private cabin on
board one of the steamers, which is without
windows and lighted only by a few
circles of thick glass about two inches in
circumference let in on the roof. They are
the ladies of one harem visiting the inmates
of another, and the steamer will stop
and let them off at one of the many beauti
ful prisons of these captive women one sees
all the way up the Bosphorus. They are
built of pure white marble and decorated
with rich carvings, the delicate wooden lat
tice work, which covers the windows more
than half way up, being painted with the
most gay and stricking colors. They are
charmingly picturesque to look at against
the deep blue sky aud the green banks of
the Bosphorus.
INSIDE THE HAREM.
But, what of the life of the poor women
within? At the window of the harem yon
will see perhaps thirty or forty pairs of
lovely black eyes all in a row peering over
the lattice half blinds watohinsr the pleasure
steamers and caiques pass up and down the
Bosphorus. Like ohildreu, when they are
tired of watching they will return to their
toys and sweetmeats, ra-hat-lacum (fig
paste) and dried sweet rose leaves, and drag
a vay the long day on their low couches
smoking their narghilei until they
are drowsy with its strong fumes,
lu the narrow back streets of
(lalata, if you can manage to thread
your way through the thousands of canine
jackals which lie about the streets all day
basking in the sun, and which are the only
scavengers the city possesses, and if you
are not over-sensitive to smells, for it has
been said that you get the greatest variety
of smells as well as of nationalities in Con
stantinople of any city in the world, you
will see hundreds of women who are now
discarded and belong to no harem, but who
can look back to their past life as one of
luxury and content. They are the women
of a certain class whom we may not men
tion here, who dare not ply their wares
on the streets with their faces uncov
ered, but who sit all day long working the
exquisite Turkish embroidery which the
western shops are full of to-day, and for
which their Jew employer gives them a few
cents. The faint yellow stain so often seen
on the daintiest pieces of Turkish embroid
ery is a drop of opium juice which they
smoke or chow all day long. When a
stranger passes idly up their streets there
are rows of dark heads and gleaming black
eyes thrust out of the windows. But of the
upper class of Turkish women one sees
absolutely nothing.
The one Turkish lady’s face I ever saw
unveiled outside of a harem, was only a
face at a window opposite mine. Every
morning before the streets were busy with
traffic, I watched a figure in rich yellow
brocaded silk come to the window and push
it open. A gayly painted narghilei pipe
and carved brass tray with tiny cups of
coffee and sweetmeats were placed on the
window ledge. Then I could just see the
gay brocaded figure and the outline of a
beautiful, dusky Eastern face, and the gold
tassels on the points of her red Turkish slip
pers, as she lay stretched on a low divan at
the window with the long tube of the
narghilei, covered with blue silk, between
her lips. A bare, rounded arm with slim
glass bangles on it would be stretched out
to the window ledge and carry a tiny brass
cup of thick black coffee to her thin red
lips. In this way the first hour of the day
would be passed until the traffic began on
the streets, when 1 saw my pretty neigh
bor no more until next morning.
A GREEK GOVERNESS.
One of the introductions I took with me
to Constantinople was to a Greek lady who,
like most of the educated Greeks, was a
great linguist and made a large iucome by
teaching languages amongst the foreign
settlers in Pera She had the pupils of all
nationalities, English, French, Greek, Ital
ian and Turks. One of her children was
the wife of a Turkish pasha who was high
minded enough to wish to have his wife ed
ucated, being the mother of his children and
the companion of his home life. The pupil
during the first two or three les
sons sat in the corner of the room
Turkish fashion, sucking her thumbs,
whilst she watched her instructress build
ing houses on the floor with letter blocks;
gradually, however, she became loss afraid
of her pretty Greek governess, and after
one year’s hard work my friend had taught
her to read and speak a few words of
French. She bad also been employed as
governess by another pasha for his two
lovely daughters, the father having spent
the greater part of his life in Paris wished
to have his daughters educated and brought
up as western ladies, having himself suffered
keenly by being linked to a Turkish woman,
totally uneducated, who had formerly be"
longed to the sultan’s army of wives and
who had been one of his past favorites. He
wished to settle honorably for life, and gon
er iusly presented her as a wife to one of his
pashas, who was unable to refuse the gift if
he wished to remain in the government em
ploy. His two daughters at the age of 16
and |7 were highly accomplished girls,
speaking with ease three languages besides
their own. Their governess had been their
constant companion for years and had
devoted her entire time and attention
to them, living in the samo house with
them and coaching them in the western
customs of society. She was justly proud
of her two handsome pupils, who mixed
freely with the Greek and English society
in Pera and Galata, riding their superb
horses in the public gardens in Pera every
day, displaying to advantage their beauti
ful figures aud faces as though no such
thing as the yashmak existed for the
women of their country. Every season
boxes of dainties in the way of hats and
dresses arrived from Paris to adorn these
favored daughters of Stamboul.
their happiness SPOir.En.
Put alas! the day of reckoning came.
1 *-her almond-eyed daughters with faces as
fair as theirs a6ked for the same privileges
ana being refused called the atte .tion of
their papas or owners to the envied two.
This reaching the ears of the sultan notice
was brought to the pasha that his daugh
ters must conform in every way to the rules
of the Turkish womUt: The order coming
from such a source father felt compelled
to comply, as be belonged to the diplo
matic service. After the Sultan’s or
ders they were -c; utterly miserable,
seeing nothing of -their foreign friends
and living airaost as prisoners in thtir
father’s house, so closely were they watched
by government spies to see that the sultan's
orders were carried out. No man ever saw
their faces unveiled; they had to associate
entirely with the childish and ignorant
women of their own country, who only
helped to make their misery greater byre
minding them of the depth of ignorance
and darkness to which they must descend
year by year if they wished to make life
bearable. They had to attend the Turkish
mosques—formerly they had been mem
bers of the Greek church—and pray
apart in the gallery devoted to women
and screened off from the rest of the
worshipers, women being considered so
far inferior to men that they are not even
allowed to pray together or in public. The
two girls felt their restrictions so keenly
that their health and spirits entirely gave
way. Thoir father, after much trouble, re
ceived permission, which was afterward
withdrawn, to allow them to walk with
their governess once a week in the public
gardons at Pera in western clothes and un
veiled. They maried In due course of
time and continued to live in their
father’s house, their husbands being in
their father’s employ. One of thestrangest
facts of their lives was that the husband
had never seen more than the eyes of his
sister-in-law’s face, though they bad lived
iu the same house for seven years. The
women of a family eat together and £it
together, seeing nothing of the men of the
house, however nearly connected; there is
one portion of the house entirely set apart
for the women of the family where the men
never enter.
Wnat a change had taken place in a few
years! My friend pointed out her old high
spirited pupils to me one day, as they were
stepping into a private cabin on one of the
pleasure boats which ply up aud down the
“sweet waters of Europe’’ (a river running
into the Golden Horn). They were then
two dejected, unhappy women. They had
on the native dress, one of the most inartis
tic eastern costumes I have ever seen, con
sisting of two full round skirts of some
atrocious color, the one reaching about the
ankle, the other turned up and flung over
the head, with the yashmak of either gray,
black or white entirely covering the hair
and face as far as the eyes.
AFTEH DEATH.
Even after death the women of this un
gallant oountry are treated with marked
inferiority to the stronger sex. Their hus
band’s pet dog or horse would be given a
more conspicuous tomb to mark its last
resting place. A tombstone for a man in
Turkey is a truly magnificent thing. It is
often a thick round pillar of marble with a
fez cap exquisitely carved set jauntily on
top, with a liberal amount of gold inscrip
tions on it. A woman’s is merely a stono
slab roughly hewn, minus a hat or inscrip
tion, though it sometimes has a basket of
flowers carved on the top.
The monument of the great Bultan Ar
murath ll’s. favorite horse is a perfect work
of art and one of the handsomest in the
cemetery at Scutari. It is something like a
kiosk with an exquisitely light cupola,
whilst his wife’s is somewhere, but one oan
not find it. In Constantinople one never
sees women doing hard work even amongst
the very poorest classes; they are not made
the ordinary beasts of burden which is the
common lot of the average Asiatic women.
They are not even employed as sales women
lu the bazaars, and 1 never saw a Turkish
woman engaged in any household duty:
truly the doors of their houses are kept
jealnuslv shut and their lives a secret to all
foreigners.
Nor were all men’s lives enviable ones in
ths loveliest of all European cities. The sul
tan’s doctor's life “is not a happy one,” for
each one appointed is supposed to have a
particular wish to poison his majesty, a
most foolish wish, for as long as the doctor
continues to be in favor the sultan is a most
profitable patent. The one I knew was a
Greek by birth and very olever in his pro
fession. W ith wonderful tact he had been
in favor with his hypocliondriaaal majesty
for two years aud had worked up a large
practice. Never a day passed but he was
loaded with presents of all description from
a uewly imported barrel organ to a saok full
of freshly coined gold or precious stones.
Nothing was too good for the one faithful;
one who had never tried, to poison him.
Wives galore were showered upon him, but
I heard a few years after that for him, too,
came the day of reckoning. This time the
sultan really was ill, and water in a blue
bottle ceased to do good. A slight opera
tion had to be performed. The doctor
called in a consulting physician, who agreed
to the necessity of an operation. His
raajestv’s wrath was almighty. Every one
was faithless. The doctors were excommu
nicated. and forbidden on the pain of death
ever to set foot on Turkish soil again, but
their goods did not go with them.
"BOUGH AND RKADY” TAYLOR.
Reminiscences of the Old Hero of the
Mexican War.
From the New York Times.
I never met Gen. Taylor until after his
inauguration ns president. Tho following
winter I received a letter from Maj. W. S.
Bliss, dated at the white house, inviting me
to visit him. The major and I were from
the samo town (Lebanon) in New Hamp
shire. We were at the academy
together. He entered West Point,
and was graduated with the
highest honors. Although several years
my senior we had always been intimate,
aud on his entering active service a corre
spondence was kept up between us. When
tho Mexican war broke out Gen. Taylor
appoiuted Bliss on his staff as adjutant, and
he served through the campaign in that
capacity. After the olose of the war he
married the general’s youugest daughter,
and ou Taylor’s election to the office of
President he took, much against his will,
the post of the President’s private secretary,
while Mrs. Bliss presided at the white
house.
It was in this way I came to receive the
tempting invitation to go to Washington.
I cun never forget the pleasant hours I
spent with my friend there. After talking
about old times, the conversation turned
upon the Mexican war. We were in the
midst of it when a door opened at the other
end of the room and a rather short, stout,
hardy-looking, dark-complexioned man en
tered, rubbing bis hands briskly together
and exclaiming with the glee of a school
boy, "Bliss! Foot and Davis have been
having fisticuffs—have been having fisti
cuffs on the floor of the Senate.
Thus far I had escaped observation.
Now Bliss presented me to the President.
After greeting me pleasantly he continued
the subject, which evidently afforded him
great amusement, and, I think, satisfaction.
It seems that the combatants had been im
mediately separated. Gon. Taylor ap
peared to think it was a pity they had not
had an opportunity to “fight it out.” It
will be remembered that Jefferson Davis
had run away with and married Gon. Tay
lor’s daughter, and for many years the two
did not speak. Both Foote and Davis were
extreme democrats, but bitterly hostile to
each other. Tho newspapers of the day
gave full accounts of the fracas between
them in the Senate, which Gen. Taylor had
termed "fisticuffs.”
In the course of my visit I had no pro
longed conversation with the President, but
many brief little chats, for, as he expressed
It. he was driven almost crazy by the
politicians. What impressed me was his
entire simplicity of charaoter and his quiet,
homely way of expressing himself. One
would have taken him for a well-to-do \ lr
ginia farmer. There was no aspect of tho
military man about him. atid as I looked at
him I said to myself, is it possible this is the
mau who commanded our troops at Palo
Alta and successfully through all our Indian
wars, who led Resaca across t he Rio Grande,
who was present at the terrible assault on
Monterey and at the w aiderful fight at
Buena Vista? I had v*r| opportunity,
however, of becoming*" Acquainted with
facts through my friend Maj. Bliss, and I
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1891.
set about to teat the truth of the anecdotes
which were current at the time.
BUENA VISTA FOUGHT AND WON.
Gen. Scott had withdrawn nearly all the
regular troops, leaving Gen. Taylor only
one regiment half filled and Bragg’s splendid
battery. Disregarding Scott’s advice to
stop at Monterey, Taylor pushed on and
fortified himself at Saltillo. Here he beard
of Santa Anna’s advance upou him. Seveu
miles beyond Saltille be seleoted at Buer.a
Vista bis battle ground. This is historical.
I allude to it to make my anecdotes intelli
gible.
“We had occupied this position,” said
Maj. Bliss, “and were awaiting Santa
Anna’s attack. I was seated that eveniug
in one corner of Gen. Taylor's tent, with a
tallow caudle before me, writing dispatches
upon the had of an empty barrel. The
general sat at a little distance, wearing a
wornout- undrew military coat and trousers,
his feet thrust into a pair of slippers, an
immense sombrero on his head, which
helped to keep off the mosquitoes, an.l
smoking a short stump of a pipe. Presently
a flag of truce was announced from
the Mexican general. It was accompanied
by au officer of some distinc
tion, who requested au audience with our
general. He was admitted to the teat. He
looked around with an air of surprise, as if
thinking he had been shown to the wrong
place, for Gen. Taylor did not even give
him a glanoe, but kept on smoking. 1
hastened to extend to the envoy the proper
courtesies, addressing him in his own
language. He was a splendid looking
young officer, faultlessly dressed in full
regimentals. Gen. Taylor turned and took
a look at him.
" ‘Bee what he wants, Bliss,’ was bis re
mark.
“The Mexican handed me a handsomely
prepared document. which I proceeded to
read. It was in Spanish: ‘From the High
and Mighty Santa Anna to the Valiant and
Renowned Gen. Taylor.’ It announced to
the general that he was surrounded by a
tremendously superior force, which it was
useless for Gen. Taylor to oppose, but, in
view of bis well-merited fame and valor, he,
Santa Anna, was ready to accept the im
mediate surrender of Gen. Taylor and his
army, who should, as prisoners of war, be
treated with all proper consideration. Fail
ing to surrender, he would not answer for
the ardor of his troops after the attack was
commenced.
“I confess,” said Bliss to me. “that I did
not permit the document to lose any of its
force when I transmitted it to Gen. Taylor,
who, all the time I was reading puffed away
vigorously at his short pipe. When I had
finished he took the pipe from his mouth
and said, ‘Tell him to go to !’
“I dismissed the officer, and inspired by
my chief’s brevity, replied to Santa Anna
in Gen. Taylor’s name that he had received
his summons to surrender and declined ac
ceding to his request.
“As is well known, this reply was circu
lated over the land and praised as a mode,
of dignified brevity. I must say I think it
conveyed pretty much the same idea that
the general had so intensely emphasized.”
Many of the inoidenta of the war were
related by Blue, but they mainly, if not
altogether, confirmed the statements which
have passed into history. I can give one
marked exception. It had been published
and repeated over and over again that Gen.
Taylor, observing the onward marob of the
Mexicans, and finding that Bragg’s battery
did not have the effect of checking it, rode
up himself and said to him, “A little more
grape, Capt. Bragg,” aud that the grape
was at once employed, to the discomfiture
of the enemy. In fact, “A little more grape,
Capt. Bragg,” became a watchword m the
praiidential election. I asked Maj. Bliss
if the anecdote was genuine.
"Any military man,” he replied, “would
know how ridiculous is such a statement.
The fact is, Gan. Taylor’s position was at a
considerable distanoe from where Bragg’s
battery stood. Toward the close of the
day’s struggle the general directed me to
order the advance of the battery to a slight
elevation nearer to the enemy, who was
approaching with unbroken columns. I
rode forward at once and gave the order.
Two of the horses belonging to the
battery had been killed. The re
mainder got up a sickly trot down a
slight decline and crawled up the moderate
eminence to the point designated. The
enemy were advancing as thick as bees.
They filed in at once the slightly broken
ranks made by our cannon balls at long
range. When the Mexicans gut neat
enough to be served with “grape” it re
quite! no order to Capt. Bragg to make use
of it. When this was done the havoc in their
ranks was such as I had never before wit
nessed in any battle —snow melting in the
sun. The enemy broke and retired in dis
order.
“This ended the fight for the day; in fact,
the day was ended. We thought it possible
that the Mexicans would renew the contest
the next morning, but the next morning
they were in full retreat.
"In thirty minutes after the result of the
day’s fight was positively known, Gen,
Taylor was snoring in his tent. Some old
soldiers in passing would look in. ‘The old
man is asleep’ they said. ‘lt is all right.’
And it was all right”
Gen. Taylor, as we know, lived only a
little more than a year to hold the office of
President. Mai. Bliss, not long after, died
of an attack of yellow fever.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Cestoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Cestoria.
When she hod Children, she gave them Castor
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l>er month Take broad gunge railroad at
Georgia avenue depot, get off at Ross avenue.
P. H. WEI LB ACH KR, Manager.
“THE SWANNANOA,”
Asheville, NL C.
A GOOD, MEDIUM-PRICED HOTEL.
u
I’tt r new management ! Thoroughly over
hauled, refitted and ref urnished. Modern con
veniences. Delightfully cool rooms and superb
views. Rates and reading matter upon appli
cation. HOWELL COBB.
TALLULAH FALLS, GA.,
IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS,
The most popular pleasure aud health resort in
the south. The Cliff House ami Cottages now
open for season of 91. It is the largest and
beat equipped hotel at Tallulah, and the only
one on the falls property. No pains are spared
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Rates of Board: to $3 per day. $lO 50 to
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rates to families and parties. Address R. L. A
J. I) MOSS, Managers
STATEN ISLAND, now open,
the new HOTEL CASTLETON,
Brighton Heights, Bt. George, overlooking the
Bay. Only twenty minutes from Battery.
Decorated and elegantly furnished. Elevator
and all modern improvements
JAMES H. RODGERS, Proprietor.
Late Kensington, Saratoga and Coleman
House, N Y
1 AAA ISLANDS. I River St. Lawrence,
1.1/UU ( Alexandria Hay, N. Y.
No malaria, climate FREE front hay fever,
fine saddle horses, FINE FISHING.
THE CROSSMON.
44th reason
This popular hotel open May 25 to Oct. 1.
Send for FREE illustrated history of 1,000
Islands, with maps REDUCED RATES FOR
JUNE. C. CROSSMON & sons. Prop's.
"STRIBLING SPRINGS. ”
ALUM, St’LPHUR ANT) CHALYBEATE WATERS,
Shenandoah Mountain, Ya.
Rebuilt, and is the best appointed house in the
Virginia Mountains Table first.-class. New
Owners, bend for circular. OHIUHESTER&
STEWART, P. O. Stribliog Springs, Ya.
LONG BRANCH, N. J.
UNITED STATES HOTEL.
Select family and transient hotel. Directly
on the ocean, 500 feet frontal $3 to $3 50 per
day. Reduced weekly rates to families
.1. O. VAN CLEAF, Proprietor,
Mansion House, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., Di
rectly ODiKJsite Wall Street Ferry.
Centrally All the Latest
Broadway & 41st St., New York.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAJfc
Grower Springs.
This popular Mountain Hesort.with its health
giving miueral waters, offers to persons seek
inff health and rest advantages not to be found
elsewhere. Moderate charge.
P. B. HoLTZENDOHFF. Owner,
Gainesville, Ga.
HOTEL LAFAYETTE.
CAPE MAY, IV. J.
JOHN TKACY & CO Proprietors
Located directly on the Beach. F.levator and
all modern improvements. Address
JOHN TRACY, Proprietor.
■Washington Hotel, Philadelphia,or to Cape May.
nblYyork city
14 and 46 West 28th St., near Broadway. Ele
gantly. newly furnished rooms, with private
bath, by dav or week. Near all leading hotels,
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taclied. Address B. F. BMITH.
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