The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 25

YOUNG @WonAN AMONG 50z Grono Torks 2000 TAUOGRITES OO (><><>(\’@><‘ YO &5 X = INTIST = NOW STYRYING N JAN FRANGISCO & DL SHORTLY ZETORN 10 91¢ (IQRLM WoMmMEN SR O o< SdFe v- you like t into the harem of the Sultan of ) fr lay and at your leisure how ! S r Oriental splendor. world, and care less. They always remind one of a lot of domestie xactly wl z woman who is sojourning birds who have never known what it is to use their wings; they has is a remarkably bright are happy—happy as theday is long, for their cage is a ve nd has - on here from Turkey to take and also very beautiful, and they enjoy one great pri 80 that she may artistically 1 hou The young woman 1 the Grand Turk has turned the pretty teeth in the harem. e task is no easy one, according to not a name that would seem to attract of the Sultan's harem. It ence and gold-bowed spect y at Paris and has been spartment of our § to i are allowed all the sweetm very much like children th ha They also absorb & mately fond. they are not supposed to drink wine, although I found they did so secretly. You know it is forbidden by the Koran. But they smoke inc ntly; cig tt on but you scarcely find one without a cigarette between her pretty lips. “I was quite mystified for a time at the entire absence of any- thing in the way of that soft down so common to the faces of dark women, but soon learned the secret of its absence, for the lady ats they care to eat, and ttle privilege makes them at quantities of grease, of which they ame is a bright, viva- barber made her apvears sHort time after my arrival. Her ccomplishments of ecivili- professional operations are most ingenious, and I was deeply inter- ested as well as amused by them. No, she does not use a razc Her whote kit consists of a bit of twine, with which she succeeds in moving ev particle of y hair that may grow on the face. To explain this operation. Of course n though il vou ha n little child play with what they call cat’s cradle? p subject. i \ ke the first f of t little game and you have the ek parents in the island of educated at the American ynsisted principally of lan- that would sta most of tion to even a few of those k (ancient and modern), instrument in working ord Now hold the twine against the face of the patient just where the two lines cross each other, then pro- ceed with the see-saw movement and you will find that every hair is pulled out, root and branch. This is ve painful indeed, and I never had the ve to try it econd time But as I told you in rkish woman will bear anything in order to beau- the beginning a tify herself. to this painful operation about twice a : e, S e month. Heroic, isn't it? p il SDeais fivently: 3 “They love music, do these women of the harem. Of course it et is not the ‘kind of music we still one soon becomes fond 1 <dr of it, and I must admit that d some of the music of great compose -1l rendered by inmates of tt arem, but as a s rule they g nd once you have caught = Sh the idea you , as I i before, most of these women some of them speak French quite ti island of culiar plac fluently, but of course the world. All Turkisk as weil as in the native | “The women of thi t the needle; the lly make beautifully made, too. And such some.” Here the lady received from broidered s to their v ch is the court -nt pape in most parts of ade out in French yusehold are rema own - garme ful fabrics. 1bly clever with ts, and they are I will show you howed some of the m of the Sults ks, some of them as lue all were woven by hanc rificent presents she had n's favorites. All sorts of em- > as a spider’s web, and to add The said was over a year 5 in the hands of the w vers. It is a s arf and canwot measure more t n three yards in length by A quart 1 width. This little bit of vanity is value £300. “Have T ever met the Sultan? indeed And what did I 2 think of him? Weli, he is a very « ry lookigg man, and v I she hac r out, thinking it at least a rea- of the harem do not hesitate bly add to as a rule. But ultan’s house’ d reached complexion, and This would not anne the prop few centurie hes the the delete DresSSEd (v THE . 'fURK\Sl-\ cos TOAE «~ - . d in the him dres: i n of the article is worn, “How many “Why sc the very conventional F p. which was the - religious reasons s he? Always 2000 many? You think he could scarcely remember so many garb, th wives h “Well, of course not. But taore which I will try to translate for vou: . i1 thermomes alth.” Meaning that a man's weal by the number of women in his harem “Are they happy, these poor creatur And the larger the harem they belor consider. themselve Of cou this to understand. But custom regulates all ac antinople, is the culated Yes, most decidedly so. the more honored they a condition very hard for us all things, and these things are cording to the custom of the count al wife in th who be: the privil arem? Well, in a manner, that title, ly she is only of kno - “others about s 50 inclined Are the women ever by their m beaten? Well, that is a le question that I do not c You know, I am about to return to the harem and : i effect that T be very careful how I answer your questions. H sec liet ul cos can say this much, and you n draw your own conclus = i 20apts: of that country the man is master, the w an is but his sla ‘ 8, ar u car I made rule erved to the very letter. It t 10 @ I to replace the )f course you wonder what I am doing away out here in San ation. & enihad catised ihiranehilrel Francisco, and T will explai resort to what we I was doing fairly F 1 18 my vacation, showed 1 yme modern improvements tricks, which were abso- to pursue. npany my household command, and f Constanti- s beautiful. Of you know nothing of the interior y. You tourists see only the ex- you know noth of the beauties t to know my opinion of Con ience in the harem: that is int is my exp ONNATIVE GfliCK DRESS. n that. As 1 told you in the beginning, I had made up my mind to go to London to study Well, I finally induced the office me over there that I might have branch of the wo mechanical dentistry. s in_command at the palace to send A chance to perfect myself in that as I fully realized how incompetent T really was ‘I reached London and had produc i J Y credentials, I i oo Sasgd ot oo ¢ the dentists.there that if I only wanted to study the ss. However, 1 did the best 1 could side the proper place for the purpose was America. On e Lo s the Atlantic Ocean I was told by many that San was ahead of the world in thi here I'am and here I have studied, and, I hope, perfect myself under the able tuition .of the faculty at your State University. I am now thoroughly convinced that I made no mistake when I took the advice of my friends ar me to San Francisco to study, for your dentists here arecertainly ahead of any I have ever met in my travels, and I am sure you will admit I have come a long way to find out. “I am very much in love with the country, its climate is so much like that of Athe returning is that T am wanted at en post of duty. Besides my mother is kere with me and she ldngs for her old home. My father is a professor at the University of Chicago: I am not sure but rather think he wiil remain. You know a scholar is never hame. sick. They only care for their books and studies = s for me, I prefer my dental work in the harem, particular line. So pecially California, and my only reason for because T t Well, if you will allow me, T will tell it love it. W. C. BUNNE : —_— W at Constantinople we went to a hotel, where i e I 2 time change my travelir s for something more IN THE FFTERNOON : A Bachelor’s R:verie. of things. Th Greek and we still T real mbling the ith the Orlental idea of the v v suppose, for 1 z dec for anything Turkish necessary to make something at least r M sidence at Samos had so far educated me in this respect about what was expected. I was soon ready and found e servants from the palace were alre y waiting with a car- r to drive me to the most exclusive house > world. I 1¢ a bit nervous at first, but was assured by one attendant that 1 had nothing to fear, r,' said he, ‘you are under the protection reat Turkish Government Nothing .can harm. you." I said, ‘T know the Government means me no harm, but little anxious abaut individuals.’ i have no fear; we of the Sultan’s household are RASKE smiled somewhat grimly as he reread the letter written on creamy paper, heavy and crested, in the great sprawling, angular hand that is the fashion for women. A the old, gushing, sentimental style of her girlhood she had written: “I want to speak with you of those old ds life promised so much. 1l in the afternoon at 4 on Thur 7 Traske remembered well when even the sight of that handwriting used to thrill him. That was when life promised so much. What a neat way of putting it, he thought. How like a woman, and how- like her it was to gentimentalize over disfllusions for which she responsible. It all came back to him, a wave from memory’s salt wnd he smiled to think that he had once imagined the loss of her would kill him. The first bitterness of losing her—the slow forgetting—when she had gone m abroad with her husband; the gradual awakening to other interests, and t g > this if you doubt my word,” and he handed me then the time when her face s forgotten,. her voice and her, tricks of beautiful si ver-hilted gger. Is {t not pretty? But I had to speech—those troublesome ghosts—had ce to haunt him. promise faithfully not to allow the little instrument out of my pos- ession, as it is contrary to the rules of the harem for a woman to And now she had returned—a widow. ch, young, beautiful, ready to summon him to her feet like a s Hé had' seen her driving on the avenue, transformed from the girl he had known to a radiantly beautiful irry any kind of weapon. I gave my promise and felt much more woman. If she had only been pale, sad, broken-hearted, he might have P for its companionship. forgiven her. 3 iage and drove to the Sultan’s palacgq As it was, he hated her for what she had taken from his life—] faith entered the c forge! v feelings upon entering that famous gateway. I had heard all kinds of storfes; I knew of the ring and ol ion in the Bosphorus. But I concluded to take edicine as it came and murmur not at all. Ve drove to a private gate and were admitted by an ebony- e, about the finest specimen of the Nubian I have ever For a moment I thought the man had just left an oil bath— =0 shiny. I soon learned that he was the chief eunuch of m and a person of great importance, and stranger still a 1t wealth, though still a slave in every sense of the word. t ushered into the main reception room; that is the aside for the women of the harem. I can't begin to tell you many of them were present. but a great number, and as I ed each within reach gently raised the hem of my garment ki 1 it in the most delicate and respectful manner. 1 s00n found these women a charming lot of companions, although part very igncrant. They know nothing of the outside as he thought of in woman, his beliefs, his boyhood's ideals! He it all, that he could make her suffer for all she ha commenced to think of some way in which he might show her crue che had no place in his thoughts or his life. And she thought she could whistle him back like this! Ha, h He remembered one night that no one knew of b#t him, 5 one away, when his boyish heartbreak had spent itself in a burst of vsterical, womanish tears. He had always had a contempt for himself for that. He wished that it was in his power to make her shed tears as bitter as those. He thought that he would brutally ignore her letter; but no, that would not hurt a_woman such as she. He picked the sheet of paper from the table and read it again. How well he remembered that writing” That had not changed. What pages v sweet she had written him! And he—ha, ha! He wondered if she had those letters vet. “In the afternoon at 4 on Thursday.” A drift of violet—the scent of spring—came up from the paper, and he remembered, and his hand trembled. Then he heard himself 1augh. It had_just occurred to him— this was Thursday afternoon, and it was just after 3. Then he told his man to call a cab. -~ KATE MASTERSON, in Life,