Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 75

HAVE been busily engaged of late in preparing a Manual of the 1 Human Mind. I give here some parts and sections of it as far as it Is yet completed. The final edi- tion will be bound in half-calf for the ordinary readers, with a university education for scholars (complete calf), and for the rich an edition de luxe, sold at an addition de luxe. I'or ever so many centuries human mind has lain more or dormant. It was known that it there. But just where it was what it did and how it did it was a matter of which nothing, it anything, was known. All this has changed It is generally admitted that the human mind was first discovered about four years ago by a brilliant writer of that period His article, “Have We a Subconscious Ego?’ was immediately followed by a striking discussion under the title, “Are We Top Side Up?” This brought forth a whole series of popular articles and books under such titles as “Willing and Being,” “How to Think,” “Ex- istence as a Mode of Thought,” “The Super Self” and such spectal tech- nical studies as “The Mentality of the Hen" and the “Thought Process of the Potato.” * ¥ ¥ 5 T2VERYBODY'S mind now anal- 33 yzed. TPeople who used to be content \ith the humblest thihking, or with none at all, now resolve themselve: refexes” and “complexes” and Some of our brightest people are kleptomani- acs, paranoiacs, agoraphobists and dolomites. Some of the bigzest busi- ness men have failed in the intelli- gence test and have been ruined. A Jot of our criminals turn out not to be eoriminals at all, but merely to have a reaction, for another person's money. Mind waves and brainstorms blow about like sand in the Sahara. Things £ood and bad come at us like an in- fection. We live in deadly fear that we may catch bolshevism, as we might a cold. Everything rushes at us in “waves.” A New York chauffeur chokes his employer, and it is called a “crime wave.” The mam is rushed ©ff to a rest house to have his com- plex removed, while the people leave the city in the flood. 1 they hear that a repentant burg! Eiven a million dollars to Trinity Church, and that a moral the cit, and they come Ther: now not only in the academic or college sense. but also 3 pey of busine chology of education, a phy salesmanship, a ps ligfon, a psvchology of boxing, a psy chology of investment chology of plaving the banjo. In short, everybody has his. In all our great cities there are already, or soon will be, sig that read P elst—Open Day and The real meanin wave is is rchology olozy und use peychology as & guide or test in 2 thousand and one ters. In the oid days there way of knowing what @o except by trying him out. veo don’t have to do this at all. We measure the shape of his head and see whether, by native in- telligence, he can, immediately and offhand, pronounce TH backward. Let us see, then, what the intelli- nce test means. 1f we wish to realize how slipshod is the thinking of pcrsons in appar- ently sound mental condition we have only to ask any man of our zcquaintance how much is 13 times 147. The large probability is that he doesn't know. Or let us ask any casual acquaintance how many cubic centimeters there are the Wool- worth building and his cstimate will bo found to be absurdly incorrec prae was Now in of plain | | CoMPARE | observe | servation floeding over | | what I mean, taken from the actual | floor, mat- | no | man could | “NOT €RIMINALS AT ALL, BUT MERELY HAV ANOTHER PERSO! with this the operation | of the trained, keened mind such as is bLeing fashioned by the new psychology. 1 questioned a man of this sort the other day. I said, “You have been in such and such an apartment build- ing, have you not?" He answered, with characteristic aetivity of mind, * “And did ¥ou, on entering| and such a hall in the building, | such and such a goldfish in nd such a bowl!? He told me that he had not only observed it, but had coun ts scales and given it a peanut. My readers, moreover, | will readily believe me when I say | that the man in question is the head | of one of the biggest corporations in the city ! But for persons who lack the proper training and habits of ob- intelligence test act as a ruthless exterminator of incom- such an | | re are a few e samples of | test questions used by one of our | leading pi al psychologists | Intelligence Test for Bank Managers. 1. Can you knit? 2. Name your favorite flower. 3. Which is the larger end safety pin? | 4. How many wheels has a Pull- | man car? | 5. 12 a spider wants to walk from | the top cormer of a room (o the| is of a { bottom corner farthesi away, will he in the fact that we are now able to| follow the angular diumeter of the | or will his path be an obese tabloid? It is the last question, I may say, which generally gets them. Already | four of the principal bank executives in New York have lost their positions over it | Let us put beside this, from the | same source, another interesting set cral reserve bank note. Intelligence Test for Hospital Nurves. 1. What is the difference between | a federal reserve note and a fed- | eral Reserve Bank note. 2. Suppose that a general bouy- ancy had let you to expand what vou considered prudent, and you felt| that you must deflate, what woum} you take in first? | £ x x x | I nurss only one was able to a MAY say that of seventeen trained wer these question: especially w MONEY.” L wandering from the essential even the odd one hardly us she turned out to be em- ed to & bank teller. re striking is the applica- intelligence test to the 1 give an tion of the plain manual occupation. example: 1. Are vou inclined to sympathize with Schiaparell's estimats of Dante's “Divina Comedia” 2. Luigi Pulel, it has been said, s the last strains of the age of & troubadou o 3. Alfieri must always be regarded rather as the last of the cinque- ce th the first of the moderns. How do you etand on that? Let us put beside this as an inter- esting parallel the following: Intelligence Test for Professors of Comparative Literature. How h pressure per inch of surface do you think a safe load to carry? 2 ppose that, just as you were getting work, you got trouble somewhere in your flow of gas, so that that sct up a back-firing In our tu would you attribute this a your feed. that you were going night at moderate speed, lighted up, and you saw 3. Suppe along la and proper! a red ligh would you stop or go right on? From all of which it appears that by means of the intelligence test we have now infallible means of knowing just what a man amounts to. If we want to know whether or ot an applicant is suited for a job have only to send him to the ¢ of a practicing peycholo- we can find out in 15 min- utes all about him. How vastly supe- rior this is to the old and cumbrous methods. Let me quote as a typical example the case of letters of recom- mendation. Compare the old style and the new an laborato; Old-Fashioned Letter of Recommen- dation Given to a Young Man Secking a Position in the Milling Business. To Messrs. Smith, Brown & Co. Dear Sirs: 1 should like to recommend to you very cordially my young friend Mr. O'Hagan. 1 have known him since his boyhood, and can assure |in wed OU n you get this?| i B directly in front of yom,; and is willing to work. When I add that he was raised right here in Jefferson county, and that his mother was one of the McGerrigles, I feel sure that you will look after him. We have had an open fall here, but a good cold spell has set in since New Year. Very faitntully, | New-Fashloned Letter ot Estimation as Supplied by a Psychological Laboratory Expert. rs. Smith, Brown & Co. Dear Sirs: This certifies that I have carefully examined Mr. O'Hagan in my labo- ratory for fifteen minutes and sub- mitted him 16 various measure- ments and tests, with a view to estimating his fitness for the mill- ing business. He measures 198 cen- timeters from end to end, of which his head represents 7.1 per cent. ‘We regard this as too large a pro- portion of head for a miller His angle of vision ig 47, which is more than he will need in your btsiness. We applied various stimuli to the lopes of his neck and got very lit- tle reaction from him. We regret to say that he does not know what 17 times 19 is; and we further found that, after being in our laboratory for fifteen minutes, he had failed to notice the number of panes in the windows. On the whole, we think him bet- ter suited for social service or uni- versity work or for the church than for a position of responsibility. Very truly, PLS—We enclose our statement of account for seventeen tests at $5 Der test. * & ¥ % HE value of the system, however, does not stop even at this point. It is proving itself an invaluable aid ompetent men who have perhaps escaped detection for many years. Kor example, & firm in Kansas was anxious to judge the selling power of its salesmen. An intelligence test applied to thelr staft showed that not a single one knows how to sell anything. The firm had been misled for many years by the mere fact that these men were suc- cessfully placing orders. One of the Kalamazoo celery com- panfes, anxious to develop the psy- chology of growing celery, instituted a searching test on fourteen of its gardeners. It appeared that only four of them had ever heard of psy- chology and only one of them couid spell it. Yet here wers men who had been professing to grow celery for twenty years! (Copyright, 1924.) News by Wireless. EW college papers can afford to pay for telegraphic news services from other colleges, and so the elec- trical engineering department of one university some tims ago organized a college press service to exchange the news of all the universities by wirelgss. The engincering department of each college is to erect its own sta- tion and by a system of relaying the messages to provide a medium for the free exchange of news for the benefit ot the student publications from coast to coast. = om de Plume. Dorothy—What is the name of that handsome prisoner? Guard—No. 2206, miss. Dorothy — How funny! But, course, that is not his real name. Guard—Oh, no, miss! That's just his pen name. of The Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy by On board the §. 5. “Resolute,” trying to get away from the Arabs. To Editor The Sunday Star. Dearest Sir: HIS trip are getting more Oriental every day. This make me enjoy some nervusness because further East we go more I commence to think I are only & Japanese, after all, and shall never be able to vote for Sena- tor Johnson when elected. . This boat ga which we travel are dif- ferent from Erie RR in one (1) way. When it say it are going to a place, by £olly it get there. Last night the Purser (deep sea name for Hotel Clerk) report that we should be in Algiers this am. Then what happen? Low & B. Hold! This morhing we was there before the first stroke of sunrise. I was scarcely awoke up when 1 knew it was Algiers by the smell. You do not need 2 Guide to take you to that town. Just folla the cent. Your nose nose. At first glimp Algeria remind you of Coney Island sliding down hill and full of Pullman porters, wearing nightshirts and going to the laundry with last week's wash rapped around their head. But I beg pardon from all the Pullman porters I know for saying that mean thing. Most Pull- man porters are clean & soapy, While most Algerians are quite the reversal. Most of them are so ignoramulous they cannot talk or write the Eng- lish langwadge. Think that! * ® % % OW 1 wish to stop my ottomobile for get out and give those poor Heathins some lessons in spelling & i stenografy. 1f all Charistians was kind like I are, Mr. Editor, this would be sweet world to live In, would not? 1 ask to know! The streets of Algiers are of two kinds, as following: 1. Straight 2 Crooked. The straight ones looks like Paris written by David Belasco & trimmed with fruits & flowers by Luther Dur- bank. Those high-top streets is not so flirtatious as Paris, but they got some charms. For instancely, you can look right across Africa, by jinger, & sce the Atlas Mts, covered with snow 1ike 10000000 miles of ice cream Sun- day. This are a sight which fill the soul with soblimity, espectally if you can seo It free. But if Hon. Guide catch you looking at it he will charge you 1§ extra. The Crooked Streets of Algiers re- minds me of a vermiform appendicks filled with rugs, onions, perfumery, coffee-drunking parlors, hooli-kooll maidens, typhoid, shoes with gold tops and paper soles, dogs, Shrieks and other annimles.® “Goghe: I bolla to Nogi, are those enlarged whiskers & soiied Sablecloths walking toword us so grandy?”’ | “Those are Scarabs” narrate Nogi distinctually. “Not ro!" \ue always botting in. Arabs.” “What are difference between a Arab and a Scarab”™ I ask to know. “A Arad” say he, “are a species of man. A Scarab are a species of bug.” *Can you blame me for getting eon- fused?” I require peevly when 2 2 species jump at me off that Arab when he pass mudjestically along. € x % x holla Hon. Guide, who “They are ROM Hon. Guide I learn that in Algeria it are legal for a gentle- man to have all the wives he can af- ford to dress. This are very cheap | wholesale arrangement, because when | a Algerian lady get up in the morning she steps into an enlarged flour-sack & stay there all day. In that sack there are 2 holes for her feet and 1 for her eyes. When a Algerian Shriek go out in the afternoon p.m. to walk like a KKK perade. | that every gentleman what join thte | fasthtul husbands in the world. Some |of them are faithful to as many as | 119 or 20 wives at a time | “what | or | Guide, whose name were Solomon Ep- { long that he forgot how to tell a 1 with his Family it look just exactly Wa llace Irwin “SOUND LIKE A TON OF COAL FALLING ACROSS A TELEGRAF WIRE.” But if KEK sheuld get into Algeria, harems would get pretty darnly ax- pensive because of high price of flour-sacks. Ladies of Algeria wears veils on their faces This are law of Moham- mid, who knew that if he did not do something about those faces all the gentlemeu in his Congregation would die batchellors. By covering a Al- gerian lady with a circilar sheet & only letting her eyes stick out you can umagine you are seeing \'enus,‘ all done up in a bundle for shipment. But when the lady have only one (1) eye (which happen too frequently) I are siprised to think how they can get a job in a Harem, even when good cooks 1s so scarce to find. But every land have its peculiarious customs (Japan axcepted) & I are quite sure that Algiers have several Hon. Guide tell me (price 1§ extra) | Moslam relidgeon are called a Faith- ful. The Mohummidans are the most | 1f Religion make people good (and it do, do it not?) Algiers must be most good place this side of Jerusa- lem. It have got more Churches than | Los Angeles has got emotion picture | studlos. There are 24 Muhummadin Churches in Algiers. There are two varieties of those. The big ones are called Mosques. F TH!‘J little ones are called Mosqui- | tos. A Mosque look slightly like a church with the mumps; the stee- ples is all swelled up into shapes of turnips. There is so much stone lace all around the windows, doors & fire escapes that it look just like a bride at a Italian wedding. Inside the Grand Mosque was se eral Moslams saying their pravers by | doing the Daily Dozen. I do not know what are in the Koran, yet I feel sure that it must of been wrote by Hon. Walter Camp. I will give yon a few more fax about Algiers which I learn from Hon. * America so The Algerians has been Prohibi- | tionists for 2,000 years. The blame stein Pasha and lived in this condition on Mubammid, who lsee | shall cut my price in 3%. Jail” made wine-drinking iliegal because that beverage gave him a headache. As result of their temperate habits Algerians looks like small peaces of sour dough that has been poked down a drain pipe. If America would send a few Prohibition Officers to Algiers I bet my bootware that town would commence awaking up, end even Mphummid wouldn't know where the stuff were coming from. * X & x NHAEITANTS of Algiers can sell anything, if given sufficient time to cheat you. This morning a. m. a free & untame Bedowin from the hills offer to sell Cousin Nogi daughter. And when Nogi say already got more daughters than he can use this Son of the Dessert of- fer to sell kis donkey, his Ingersoll watch and a corner lot in the Sahara. When a Algerian merchant wish to sell anything he commence with the price he do not expect to get & wait for you to name the price you do not expect to pay. Thiz p. m. I observe one wide Lady from our Boat getting soaked by a Arabian Knight with a “Because of your sweetish face Lady,” he narrate, “I shall sell this royal Kibosh rug for 3,000 franks. “Why should T come to Algiers to be | cheated when I knew so many Arme- | nians in Detroit?" she ask to know. | “For that compliment,” he say it, “I This will make me so bankrupt I must go to “I will pay 2§ to send you there,” she ollicute. Yet that night when she got to Boat she were carry- ing that Rug and braging how she | got a curio for 195. This will save her the price of the trip, perhapsly. Citizens of Algiers lives by cheat- ing each other between Boats & cheating Travellers when Hon. Boat are in port. Also they manufacture Moorish swords (tin) which they charge 23 for an sell for 10c. If Mohammid lived by the sword why should not his followers do so also? There is no amswer to this question. Although Islam are on the water- wagzon they are more than egger to sell Shampain to Unbelievers. When Unbelievers drinks that Sham- pain they becomes more unbelieving than before. The Natives got 2 ments called Peck-Pick quaint instru- the Hum-Drum & the he | | trom a length of wooden stove-pipe with a dog-skin stretched over its nose. The Peck-Pick are a two- stringed banjo on which any Alger- tan can play A hot Town in the Old Time fn 2 keys at same time A Algerian Okestra sound like a ton of coal falling across a telegraf wire * % %% ACIERS were discovered by Jew- ish traders in 2000 BC, but they got out soonly because too poo to stay. In more later vears Barbary Pirates thought of making it their | headatrs, but the town were too taft | for them. Sjnce then France have took over the management. But how | she make it pay I do not know, Per- hapsly she have put a war-tax on picture postcards. 1If the Barbar: Pirates had thought of that the would be there yet | That are ali I know about 2 | except that I almost lost my | that strange shoar this an ;gdlmg off goodship “Resolu | Just when we got on dock wha! see but 200 Pullman porters stand- ing there in red hat and everything while awaiting to, took our baggage | It looks so Pennsylvania Station that I nearly wep. “Here, goodman, take my sootcase. thank you,” I parrate to one (1) of | ther Then what you think he done? He puil a militia knife out of his cos- tume & attemp to stab me in the albumen “He are not a Pullman porter,” ex | plan Hon Guide, brushing away knife | with his sleave. “He are one of those | Soudanese warriors in French uni- form. Next time he will ki 1 stood ghast, thinking how | should behave if T meet a Bedowin Fireman, or something violent by | nature. When 1 got on the Boat this p.m |Lady from Pern, Ind., say she do { not like romantic cities because they ‘Sul s0 few bath-rooms. “If-you travel to find bath-rooms Mrs. Madam,” I renig, “just wait till we arrive at Pompeii next Sunday | morning. There are the town where | bath-rooms was discovered.” | She look hopeless. | Hoping are the | Yours truly { Hashimura Togc we you sam The Hum-Drum are made | New Woman of Turkey Demands Equal Rights With Men, Says Carpenter’ | slaves, doctors and cooks. Abdul|nople. This institution was founded Hamid did not eat with his harem, as | by Americans more than a generati it is a custom here for the sexes to!ago-and it has been supported b eat separately. | senerous gifts from many of the wel I saw about a hundred of Abdul| KROWwn peopie of the United States BY FERANK G. CARPTENTER. CONSTANTINOPLE, 1924. BEVOLUTION is going on among the women of Turkey. They are coming out of their ‘l'l' day the veiled woman is the cxceD‘{ tion, and the majority of thoss on the street have their faces perfectly bare. They still cover their hair and wear | unsightly gowns that come up over seclusion, are going about with their faces uncovered, and are rapidly taking part in politics and business The wife of Mustapha Kamal gives afternoon teas at An- gora, whers, without the sign of a vell, she receives the foreign news- paper men and others, and not long ago she said she believed that woman should be regarded as an equal part- ner and comrade of man, even to the potnt of abolishing separate clubs for men and women and demanding those of mixed sexes. She even belioves in co-educational schools for the Turks, Madame Kémal was educated. in England and France. She was nine- teen years old when she married Kemal, and she was with him during the war with the Greeks. When she eame back from Smyrnz her sister Mohammedans wero amazed to see Dber step from the train with her face uneoversd and dressed in riding cos- tume, with a cay. riding breeches and high boots, upon the heels of which shome silver spurs. At her afternoon teas she usually wears Turkish dress, although her face is not veiled. On a recent occasion she wore two rings of platinum, one set with a four-karat diamond and tlie other a plain wed- aing ring. * * X % |ANOTHER leading figure ‘in all the new movements for women in srurkey id'the wife of Adnan Bey, the governor of Constantinople. This s Jialide Hanum, who writes novels and movie secenarios, makes stump gpeeches and takes an active part in 21l public matters. In 1919 she called togother a mass meeting of about 100,000 people and advocated a revo- Jution against the allies. Since then gne has worked for the absolute in- dependence of Turkey, and has been & large factor in its success. Halide Jlanum is a graduate of the American Woman's College of Constantinople. 1 find a great change going on in the women of Constantinople. They are casting away their volls and go- ing bare-faced on the streots. When 3 was here fiftoen vears ago no com- mon woman had a vell so thin that vou could see through, and it was | thelr heads, but these are drawn tight | their- jobs. only the high ladies of the harems avho Bad white gauze vells showing above their balloon-lfice black dresses, dowm around the sides of the face, so that all the features are visible. Sometimes the veil has an opening in | the form of an acuts-angled triangle, the base of which is marked by two pins over the eves and the apex by another pin under the chin. Today I saw a Turkish woman selling sweet chocolate on the Galata bridge, where thousands were passing. She squatted against the railing, dressed all in black, with only this triangle show- ing her face. Five or six years ago the majority | of high-class Turkish girls wore veils when out driving and especial- | ly when going to such places as the Sweet Waters of Europa Now they may be seen with faces as bare as your hand, notwithstanding the many young men riding about in motor cars or on horseback. I see them often in the boats on the Golden Horn, their veils thrown back, and they do not hesitate to look at the men and seem to want the men to notice them. Most of the women at receptions of the higher olasses are| now without veils, and at one given by an official the other day more than, thirty young girls appeared wearing | decollete gowns. i The taking off of the veil was| started during the world war, when the women went to the field and| served as nurses. Many of them joined the Red Crescent, whioh is the Turkish society of the Red Cross,| and they did all sorts of war and relief work. Some were employed in the post office and government de- partments and they are still holding * % ¥ INCE the war the émployment of women has been largely extend- ed and unveiled women are clerking in the stores, operaling typewriters and handling the telephone switch- boards. There is a dry goods estab- lishment in Pera run entirely by women. Stamboul has a department store where there are many woman clerks. They are dressed in black, but their faces are unveiled. Thers are unveiled women clerking in the bazaars, and as T pass T have had them call out to me Lo coms in and “AT THE CONSTANTINOPLE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, WHICH WAS FOUNDED AND ]S SUPPORTED BY AMERICANS, THE TURKISH GIRL MAY INDULGE IN ATHLETICS UNI buy. I sat down in a shoe bazaar and sketched two Turkish girls who were trying on slippers out in the strest. One of them was a beauty, but the other was ugly. Women act as peddlers in the bazaars, and-un- veiled girls of the higher olass, with red ribbons across their breasts, stand on tHe corners on tag days for special charities, asking alms. _If you give, they will pin a protective tag on the lapel of your CPIL Many of the Turkish women engage in charitable work. It used to be that husband and wife never appeared together on the streets and thers was a law forbid- ding Turkish men and women to come together to a public entertain- ment, no matter if they were husband and wife, brother and sister or moth- er and son. Today I saw a dozen men and women walking together across the bridge that leads from the Furepean quarters to Stamboul, and some went arm in arm. Up to stx! years ago there was a law sgalnst a man and woman riding together in the same automobile or other ve- hicle—now both sexes are often to bo seen in the same motor car. The street cars still have separate com- partments in front reserved for Turkish women. The Mohammedan women not only attend the movies, but some of the educated girls are going Into acting for the screen and several are making a success by posing in all sorts of costumes. Constantinople now has a woman's paper, which is published by women. The languagoe Is Arablc, and among the pictupes are women' with bare faces and half-clad legs advertising silk stockings and lingerie. The pa- per contains political articles, poetry and fiction, and its chief end is the advancement of women. It is issued weekly and has a very large circu- 1ation. 1 hear all sorts of stories about doing away with the harem and the ED BY THE FLOWING ROBES OF establishment of monogamy as a na- tional custom. Dr. Fuad Bey, who was formerly mipister of health and child welfare, says that in a recent trip across Turkey he did mot find any man with more than one wife, and that’ the time will soon come when a new law will be passed pro- hibiting plural marriages. Dr. Fuad's statement is ridiculous. There are still harems all over Turkey, and especially out in the country, where the women do the work and are a labor asset to their husbands. There are many harems in Constantinople. The Koran permits a man to have four wives and as many female slaves as he can support. With the higher classes each wife has her separate establishment. * x kX WEEN I was hero the first time, away back in 1889, I made some- thing of an investigation of the harem possessed by the sultan. Mah- mud 1II, an ancestor of the deposed caliph, who died when Martin Van Buren was President, in order to {Thief eunuch wore a uniform of scar- THE PAST. make his throne safe, upon his ac- cession sewed up the 174 wives of Mustapha TV in sacks loaded with shot and dropped them into the cool waters of the Bosporus. Abdul Aziz, uncle of Abdul Hamid, was especially fond of blue-eyed beauties with golden hair. He had 1,200 slaves in his harem, and it is said that his ex- penses for presents and dresses were about $800,000 a year. Abdul Hamid bad a big harem, with scores of eunuchs on watch. His let and gold and built a mosque to serve as his tomb. These eunuchs formed but a small part of the serv- ants of the palace. It took some- thing like 7,000 people to wait upon Abdul Aziz. His kitchen had 300 servants and there were 100 porters ‘who did nothing else but carry bur- dens for the establishment. All of his numerous wives had their servants, hairdressers and dressmakers, and the most favored had separate estab- lishments with their own eunuchs, Hamid's wives when during my stay | Y™MOn& these are Helen Gould, after he crossed Constantinople o kiss the | ¥hom Gould Hall, one of the fine cloak of Prophet Mohammed, which is | PUildings of the institution, is named kept in Stamboul. The women were | ATOther Mrs. Russell Sage, who in closed carriages with eunuchs be- | B#S Siven her name to Sage Hall, and side the drivers, but their lace veils|Other gifts were from John D. Rocke- were so thin we could almost count | fé/ler, Mre. Henry Woods of Bostor the strata of rouge on their checke, | MiS Grace Dodge and many ofhers They were clad in silks of all colors | e of the rainbow. Many of them ""’"“Tm ollege has a large faculty kid gloves and several had sprea including many graduates of our handkerchiefs over their knees to| DSt colleges and universities. It is com keep their gloves clean. Some had their eyebrows painted and their great soulful eyes showed out ove: their veils. Among them were a half dozen red-haired Circassians, who would have passed for belles in Cleveland, New York or Chicago. 2w xis AT that time the buying and selling of women was secretly done and the sultan’s establishment was aften added to by girls from the Caucasus. The price depended somewhat on their beauty and accomplishments, and the good singers and dancers| brought the best pricez Then an or- dinary slave girl of from twelve to sixteen years of age sold for $200, 2nd if very beautiful she might bring as much as $2,000. If, in addition, she was a good musician, the sultan sometimes paid as much as $6,000. ALl of this I learned from the drago- man of our legation, who knew what was golng on at the Yildiz palace. Today the officials of the new re- public will tell you that there is no buying and selling of women in Tur- key, but this is denied, and I am told it still goes on under the rose. The chief objection to the increase of the harem is not due to conscientious scruples. It is the additional expense that each new wife entails in these days of the high cost of living, and also the additional disquiet which comes from the many warring ele- ments of a household. One of the greatest influences for the advancement of women, not only in Turkey, but in Rumania, Bulgaria and otlier parts of the near east, is the Constantinople College for Women, located on the Rosporus about five miles from the Golden Horn and within easy access of Constanti- | posed of both women and men. Th president of the college Dr. Ma | Mills Patrick, who has received degree | from the University of Bern. {land, and from Columbia University and Smith College in the United States. She has been head of the institution for many years. and ered one of lthe great oducators of her sex. She finds that the Mohammedan women arc | anxious to come to &chool, and that the | mothers want tieir daughters to share in the new life that is now open to the women Of Turkey. A change has taker place in Turkish homes. In the past o ady of the harem was expected to { know little more than the Koran, and | perhaps her cook book. Today she | becoming interested in all sorts of pub- lic matters. Within the past year or so the girls of this college have been studying citizenship and political science. Tho students are governing themselve: and their meetings are regulated b. parliamentary law. They elect thei own rulers, and this to the disgust of some of the students. Among the new arrivals of last year were somc princesses from Russia and the Cau- casus. One of these, a Georglan oict, who had been accustomed to the homage of all about her, told one of the officers of the student govern- ment that she was a princess and not obliged to Keep the rules. The officer | repiied, “We have no princesses her |and everybody must keep the rule The girls keep track of the women's | movement in other countries. They are watching woman suffrage as it has been established in Rumania and Bulgaria, and they would like to have it for Turkey. They have their own debating society, where national af- fairs are freely discussed. Among recent debates were some on ‘“The Best Form of Government” “Free Trade and Protection,” “The Best Frofessipy for Women. (Copyrizhf, 1924, Carpenter's World Traveln) Switzer- cons