Identifier: sixoneabroad00thom (find matches)
Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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Publisher: (Austin, Tex.) Printed by E.L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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there is no wooing, no love, except such as is wrought outin the home after the nuptials. The father chooses his son-in-law, and groom and bride see each others faces for the firsttime only when their lives have been united for better orworse. A male visitor in a Turkish home can never see the face ofhis hostess and cannot enter her apartments, even though he bea relative. Out in the street, although a Turkish woman maynot show her features, it is parliamentary for her to exhibit herankles, and I noticed that she was always strictly parliamentaryin that respect. Women and men are not allowed to sit to-gether, in the home, in the mosque nor street car, nor anywhere.More than that women must, as near as possible, be out ofsight to the opposite sex. To insure absolute privacy and se-clusion, the windows of the female apartments of a home arescreened with close lattice, so that the curious feminine eye maylook upon the passing crowds and yet be invisible to any pro- 74 Six and One Abroad
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^7 Mohammedan Women. Wohammeftttntrrfic £-vrt»u>»i. .Fenimes Missuhnai MOHAMMEDAN WOMEN. St. Sophia, Bazars, and Bospliorus 75 fane nuisciiline optic. On trains, in waiting rooms, steamboatsand street ears, there are separate compartments where parti-tion walls come to the assistance of the ladies veils in effectingtheir complete isolation. Birds, as are dogs, are mnch respected in Constantinople andit is a crime to kill them. Above the trellised rigging of theships in the harbor the air was alive with the white wings ofgulls, and myriads of wild ducks rode the waves and dived,conscious of their immunity. Here again the Koran has abright page and again is evident its influence upon its obedientbelievers. It proclaims the taking of animal life a sin and tocomply with its precepts many devout Turks refrain from eat-ing meat. A strange mixture of gentleness and brutality is theKoran—a bible that holds sacred the innocent lives of birdsand beasts and yet bestows the prize of bliss

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