The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-05-12

ISA w eAAtaA pa tbe0 t4tae ks1S 4aA tCei -
ed itin Turkey.wh this means Of smeliora
ting this dreadful scOu rye he's been practicet
from time irnnernorial We give one Of bel
letters on that subject The compliment she
pays to the Salens other day at the close Of
her letter. shows that the medical profess ion
had old fogies and strict constructionsts in il
in her time, as much opposed to innovation as
some We know ofih these days.
gApropos Of distempers, lam going I'd tell you
thing that will make yon wish yourself here.
The smallpox, so falkland 50 dangerous among
Us, is here entirely harmless by the invention
of ENGRAVING, which is the term they give it.
There is a set ofold women who make it their
business to perform the operation every au
tumn, in the month of September, when the
heat is abated. People send to one another
to know if their family has mind to haye the
small pox. They make parties for this purpose;
and when they are metz Commonly fifteen to-
gether, lthe old woman comes with nutshell.
full ofthe matter of the best sort of small pox.
and asks what vein you please to have OPEN
ed. She Immediately rips open that you offer
to her with large needle and, puts into the
vein as much matter as can lie upon the head
ofthe needle, and after that binds up the little
wound with hollow bit OF shell, and in this.
manner opens four or five veins The children
or young patients play together all the rest Of
the day, and are in perfect health till the eighth.
Then the fever begins to seize4hem, and they
keep their beds two days-yery seldom three.
They have rarely above twenty or thirty on
their faces which never mark; and in eight days
time they are as well as before their illness
When that are wounded, there remain rum NC
running sores during the distemper, which
don't donbt is a great relief to it. Every year
undergo this operation; and the
French ambassador says pleasantly, that they
take the small pox here by way of diversion, as
they take the waters in other countries. I here
no example of any one that has died of it:
and you may believe that am we'll satisfied of
the safety of the experiment, since intend to
Try it on my little son.
am patriot enough to to take pains to bring
this useful invention into fashion in England
md should not fail to write to some of our
doctors very particularly about it, if knew
any of them that had virtue enoughto destroy
luch considerable branch of their revenue
or the good of mankind. But that distemper
s too beneficial to them not to expose to all
heir resentment the hardy wight that hould
to put an end to it,
Here is another letter on more agreeable
,nbiect. She is describing her visit to the
young Sutana Fat'ma. Leigh Hunt has beau
ifully said, sit is as if all the English beauty
IN her shape. had gone to compare notes with
Ill Turkish" 1t is one Ofthe glimPses Of East
ern life, that as Byron said,
Charmed the charming Mary Montague"
Il was met at the door by two black eunuchs
gho led me thro' long gallery between two
anks Of beautiful young girls, with their hair
inely plated almost hanging to their feet, all
Iressed in fine light damasks, brocaded with
liver. was sorry that decency did not per-
nit me to consider them nearer. ut that
bought was lost upon my entrance to a large !,
Dom, or rather pavilion, built round with gilt !
ashea, which are most of them thrown up, and :
ne trees p anted near them gave an agreeable !
hade, which hindered the sun from being !,
oublesome. The jessamines and honeysuck-
IS that twisted round their trunks shed a soft !.
erfame, increased by a hite marble fountain :
laying sweet water in the lower part Of the
,om, which fell into two or three basins with
pleasing sound. The roof was painted with Z
1 sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets
lat seemed tumbling down What an artful ! ]
tightening If the beauty by the idea Of profu- !
on!1 On sofa, raised three steps, and COW !.
ed with fine Persian carpets, satthe Kiydya's !.
DIV. leaning on cushions Of white satin en- =
oidered; and at her feet two young girls :.
,out twelve years old, lovely as angels !,
eesed perfectly rich. aud almos. covered with :.
wells. But they were hardly seen beside the J;
If Fatima, (for that was her name,) 50 much s
II beauty efaced everything have seen; my :
lthat has been called lovely either in Eng )
nd or Germany must own that never :.
W anything so gloriously beautiful, nor can :
collect face that would have been takes :
,tice Of near hers. She stood up to receive :
:, salutihg me after their fashion, putting her :
md to her heart with sveesness full Of mi =
", shat no court breeding could ever give,
She ordered cushions to be given me, and =
* care to place me in the corner, whichis s S
. place Of honor 1 confess though the s
'eek lady before me had given me great =
iniOn of her beauty, was 50 struck with I'd .
ration that coul not for BONE time spea $
her. That surprising harmony Of features !.