Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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II 212 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. they generally commute for themselves by escaping. (Times, Nov. 6,1886.) Turkish diplomacy has become a byword for procrastination andindecision, sure signs of weakness. The well-to-do Turks ambitionseems to be to transform himself into a Western gentleman. The ladiesaim at a corresponding change, and wear their yashmaks very thin,especially if they are pretty. Their mantles, made of striped red andwhite silk-gauze stuffs, are well fitted, and the Western corset is worn ;
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HAREM BEAUTY. and they have discarded large loose slippers in favour of high-heeled boots.They drive through the bazaars in barouches, unattended by eunuchs. In debt, without good or strong government, largely eflfeminate,hemmed in by enemies, Turkey must decline; and Europe closelywatches the last act of the long drama of Turkish rule at Constantinople,Austria, Russia, and perhaps others, coveting yet further slices of the sick mans domains. I

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