The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-15
From the Brother Jonathan.

From the Brother Jonathan.
Entracts from Wanderimgs Of a jour.
meymam Tailor through Europe and
the East, during the gears 1924 IL
1910. By p. d. HOltha~s, Journey
man Tailor, from Werdohl, IN West.
pAolia. Translated from Tile third
German edition, By William HOaoitt.
New- York: J. Winchester, 80 Ann ST.
Price rs cemtS."
THE TURKS.
The Turk is, as already remarked, by
no means cannibal, but good sort OF
fellow; Indifferent and phlegmalic. He
is no friend Of work, bat rather symtem-
attic ider, who loves, of all things, TO
stretch himself out, and rests from doing
nothing. Nothing delights him so much
as rest and comfort. The common Turk
is just the same, though, from necessity,
he must work more than the rich. The
professional and the merchant work thro'
The day in most leisurely and take.it-
easy fashion. But so soon as the Sun is
gone down, when the Turkish bell strikes
twelve then he is most punctual. He
shuts up his shop, goes home 10 the
mosque. eats, and lays himself down. 10
work by candIeIight is. IN his eyes,
heinous sin, but he rises with the dawn
of day. Al motion is disagreeable 10 him.
You seldom see him run 10 haste, never
laugh, and his longest walk is to the coffee.
house. He does everything measureGy,
gravely, and with a dlgniied air, never
moving feature. In deep gravity one
stalks near another in the streets; never
do they play with each other. The rich
man has always swarm of oilers, slaves,
and minis,ering spirits abou: him, who
wait about him, and carry after him pipes
and clothes when he goes to the bath.
A little thing annoys him. He amuses
himself most 10 his contentment in his
harem, in bathing, smoking, and drinking
coffee. In this manner he kills time with
great uniformity. When in some agree
able spot, under a green tree, by spring
or fountain, or before a coffee house in
the open air, seated on low cane-chair,
or Illuminating on piece of carpet, he can
enjoy his cup of coffee and his Tschibuk;
then he is in the best of humors; is full
of pleasure, and can thus occupy himself
for the whole day.
Nunberess are the Turkish coffee
houses where nothing but coffee & pipes
smoke. If you enter, the walters are
Immediately at hand to reach you coffee
and pipes These are matters of course
everywhere.
1t is singular scene when the Turk.
ish brotherhood lie Illuminating in a coffee.
house in circle on the dIvan, or in a
l;ule garden on the mats-tbeir legs under
Them, their eyes half closed-draw luxu-
rousl y the precious smoke out OF the long
pipe a most into the very throat, and then
blow il forth from nose and mouth in great
clouds. Not sound passes over their
lips. Still and solemn, each absorbed in
himself, they sit immovabIy for whole
hours. Yet sometimes they laugh heartily
when jester acts something before them.
They sing and dance themselves very
rarely, but they enjoy amazingly the sing
ing of the Walachian gypsy girls in the
"A
menian guitar players.
Wine, the Turk does not drink; but
he drinks, he says, his pipe, and sends up
, mighty mass of smoke. Without this,
he can do nothing, and he does not let it
grow old. All smoke; the poores, as
we'll as the richest, and the women into
he bargain. Among the wealthy, the
slaves have scarcely anything to do than
o make coffee, and to prepare the pipes,
o fill them, TO lay the glowing coal ex-
ictly in the middle, 10 give the preliminary
puff, and hand them TO the mas
err. The master does nothing but smoke
They never spit cut. The Turkish pipe
consists of Vistula reed, of from six to
light feet long, and the thicker the better
The mouth-piece is of ambergris; and !
very man, the very poorest, must have
uch one. Besides the Tschibuk, the
vater-plpe, Argillee, is much smoked
The smoke is in this conveyed through
glass vessel filled with water, and comes
through long tube cool into the mouth.
They are very difficult 10 smoke, since
'ou must draw the smoke in whifs into
he throat. They never pleased me. The
obocco called Tulun, especially that out
# WaIIachia, is very good 1t is cut
cry fine in long threads, and crackIes.-
Cor the water-pipe it is cut coarse, and a
title damped.
Every Tark is at liberty to take several
wives, but he is usually only in the Turk.
sh manner married to one by the Inman.
lie never sees her till she first comes into
lis house the contract is made before,
ma the man must generally pay some.
hing down.
They are costly articles; as every wife
must generally have room and an es.
abllshment of her own, as they do not
gree well together. The ordinary Turk
slves to his wife, commonly twenty pa.
ans day - about penny; on that She