The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-22

suspected one OF his servants, VINO was equally
guiltless. Being determined 70 clear herself now
ever she enticed the suspected servant into her
apartments. and shortly sfterwsrd horrible yels
proceeded from It, She and her maids had thrown
the man down, trussed him like q fowl, and then
placed pan OF burning charcoal beside him, in
which they heated q pair Of t0ngs. With this In.
they began TO take pieces out Of his body
adjuring him to confess as they did SO. He was at
last got out OF their hands more dead than alive.
PERSIAN WOMEN ,.t,.,
are kept very much like dogs In Europe. A room
or an apartment is allotted to them. They are left
alone there and fed scantily at fixed hours All the
wives Of an establishment never live together, for
they would certainly tight II they did 80. Some
times, but very rarely, two Of them agree wei
enough to keep company. but 1t is generally found
safer and quietcr to lodge them apart.
The best Persian houses are little better than the
stables at an inn. inc worst are more abominable
than the kennels OF dog fancier. They are very
dirty people. They have no domestic conveniences;
no windows. no doors that will shut The houses
arc usually built OF kind OF frisble mud, and
sometimes room or two of them Ia washed away
at time by heavy rain; and the walls are liable
to be first split up and then shaken down by earth
quakes, which are very frequent all over Persia
The furniture used by the richest people ia very
few door curtains, q few looking glasses, little
crockery. make up the sum Of IT, There are no
tables no CHAIRS no bedsteads, no wardrobes, no
pictures or ornaments, though sometimes the
whltewasled walls are pretttly painted. Every
one. from the shah 70 tho mulereer, squats on his
hams and eats with his nngers. They have no
fixed hours for lying down or rising up
They are awake at oil hours and asleep OF all
hours. During the winters, which are very Sc
vere they may be generally found rolled up like
dorlmice, near q pan OF charcoal, ana In the sum-
mer they never seem to have done with alwater-
pipe or melon. Every house Is as Iull as rab-
bit warren with servants and the servants OF
those servants. The master OF the house calls
them all Unfortunately ''badja," which signifies
"children." Though there Is social lie consist
ing OF balls and dinner parties in the Persian cap
tta there 10 great deal OF ceremonious visiting;
and Persian visits are interminable, lasting three
or four hours at o stretch. The estimation In
which Q guest Is held Is marked by the length Of
time the host retains him, and he Is crammed with
sweetmeats and deluged with tea before he Is al
lowed to depart, II o person Of any consequence.
First comes water-pipe with gold and Jewelled
mouthpiece, which the guest usually brings with
him, and which is presented by one Of the i've
or six servants who accompany him on his visit.
junior attache or an Indian lieutenant OF native
infantry would hardly 60 abroad with less than i've
attendants. After the first kaleon, or water-pipe,
tea is served, sometimes In very delicate porcelain
cups then sweetmeats made of gum and sugar,
cOOred with the Juice of the melon or the pome-
granate. They are very good. After them comes
more tea and more pipe. A visitor OF consequence
Is seldom let on till he has drunk ut least four cups
of strong tea without milk, milk being rare COM
modify In Persia, and seldom taken In liquid
form. aA
II the visitor Is Frank he has no sooner left the
house OF the Persian who has received him with
such extravagant demonstrations of respect than
the cup from which he has drunk Is broken, be-
cause his lips are supposed to have defled 1t. and
the carpet upon which he was seated Is hung out
in the air to purify or huddled away out Of sight
till some other Frank comes to use 1t again.
Meantime the Frank, unconscious of the abhor-
renee with which he is viewed by the fanatic
Shutes around him, probably considers himself a
very mighty man indeed. AS he passes through
the bazaars he Is hemmed In by his servants.
Three Of them precede him and two walk behind.
They OH va,ry sticks. and the servan walk
before him call out In terrible voice. "Sahib
Sahibi Sahb !" and ply their sticks brisky on the
local shopkeepers shoulders TO clear the way for
him. Now, sahib means ''moosoo,n az nearly as II
can be translated or "foreign gentleman" and II
would De most curious and Instructive sight to
observe the effects which would be caused upon
the traaesmen OF New York or London II o foreign
gentleman were 20 march down Broadway OF
Bond street accompanied by grooms who beat
them out Of his way and cried, "MoosooI' as who
should say "MessiahW
Moreover, II must be observed that only very
small swell indeed will walk about with only
fve servants, or condescend to walk at all
The Shah sometimes rides abroad with $1,000
horse; and when one OF his provinces has
dispeased him he and they travel down to
it by easy stages and eat 1t up. They lit
orally consume every edible thing that they can
wiring or torture out Of the population, and when
all the Offenders are reduced to state of starva-
ton they ride away again. An ordinary Persian
Official riding out to garden within sight OF the
capital, will often have as many as o hundred
mounted and armed followers with him; and when
Khan pays visit the neightorhood Of his hosts
house looks like an encampment. All the splendol
OF the Persans Ia confined to horses, servants and
water-pipes.
Some OF .,
THE EUROPEAN MISSIONS
atTeheran keepup ntful a. tempt a. party giving
and very awkward thing 1t Is to 60 to the parties
which they give. The streets, or rather lanes, o.
the capital are neither paved nor drained mol
lighted. they are full Of deep holes. Some years
ago an English envoy, being very Ill with dysen
terry, introduced the first Sedan chair as means o.
locomotion; aud the fashion might have been fol
lowed, but the Persian priesthood opposed It, un
expectedly declaring that 1t was impous to employ
true believers as beasts Of burden for the use Of
fnndes. Yet the Persians are anything rather than
true believers from the Mohammedan point Of view,
all the orthodox Mussulmen looking upon them as
pestilent heretics. In point Of fact they have nc
religion at all; but nominally they are Shiltes. q
sect OF dissenting Mohammedans who con.
slider ALL the fourth CaLph, as the rightful
successor Of the Prophet and regard his three pre-
decessors, Abukenr, Omar and Gilman, as usurpers,
which is much as fpersons calling themselves true
Catholics were to doubt Of the apostolic success
sion. However. orthodoxy and heterodoxy having
been shrewdly described as ''the difference be-
tween your doxy and my doxy," and the Persian
priesthood steadily Affirming, for valid reasons,
not unconnected with endowments, that their faith
is the only one by which salvation may be gained,
IL IA certain that when they forbade the use of