Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-19
AN AMBASSADORS LIFE IN TUR
KEY.
The Inc0nven1ences Ont OF Doors
Habils Of the Family ut Nome.

The special correspondent OF the London
Times at Pera prefaces an article on dipio-
macy with the following racy sketch:
'FOr the finest town mansion In Pera and
the loveliest paradise on the Bosphorus, even
with 10000 or 112, 900 as salary into the bar
gain, would not be an Ambassador In Tur-
key. We have five OF these exalted person
ages in this place, and all of them are amia-
ole. estimable, hospitable gentlemen. 1 try
10 put myself In their place with all my
powers OF imagination, but, warmly as 1
sympathiZe with them, confess that see
reason rather TO pity than TO envy them. Not
even the proud consciousness OF helping TO
Gle me TO the sights, sounds, and smells of
this eXecrable residence. Outside the lofty
gates OF her palace home tine daintest Lady
Ambassadors must needs find herself amid
the horrors of the Grande Rue de Pera. saw
one OF them the other day picking her way
from stone to stone as If she had been waling
through the half drained bed OF the foulest
caual. She was preceded by her sWarthy
cdrdes, formidable guard with thick nous
taches almost half way down to his belt, q
Damascus scimitar dangling on his thigh
and In his hand long, heavy horsewhip To
awe the multitude and clear the way before
his mistress. But what could that brave
man do to protect the ladySsllk skirts un.
less he lifted her bodily out of the mire aud
carried her the shortest way to the place she
came from? How could even the escort OF a
equadron OF horse screen her from that jost-
ling throDg OF horrid men and beasts, who
cross and press upon each other with as help
less struggle as if they were all walking
bllndfolded? She was brought face 10 face
win one OF her sex, and of her own, or OF
scarcely an inferior rank, when a desperate
attempt attempt at conversation was made
Comment, Madame de CoBueSse, UOsLS SOrtes par
te temps qliU tditg Qua uodIcz- UOats MiJdfos
Jdtd bteTl yTeTtdTe de pdir. The words were
hardly spoken when, with uncouth shouts of
"GUGrGGs Gudrdd@ a string of laden mules
with huge panniers came trsmping, splash
ing, blowing their way through the crowd,
and ladies, ladies' maids. cdUdsses Greek ana
Armenian priests. dervishes, street porters
and beggars, all had 10 make, pell-mell, for
the refuge of the nearest shop-a SHOP as il
CHANGED. where there were MANY simmerIno
braSs pots on the fire, as in a patent
kitchen, but in which, instead OF pIilau or
courcousou, the greasy fezzes or wooden
skullcaps OF Mussulmans, Greeks, and AL
banians were being boiled into brand-new
scarlet purity. The poor ladies must brea he
the outer air; carriages they have, aud sedan
chairs; one or two Of them ride; put, 10 say
nothing of danger to life or Limb, nothing
can save them from such dead locks as the
swarming mass OF unwashed beings IN the
Grand Rue Is every moment brought TO,
nothing can drive from them the loaIhsome
hands thrust into their coach windows by
the mendicants, who have them at their dis
erection, and know that they can extort by
their contact the aims which are denied 10
their whining voices.
Indoors, however, the life OF the wives and
families of foreign representatives is not so
much TO be deplored. They dwell in large,
warm, well aired, sumptoousl y furnishes
apartments, with servants OF all colors, with
bnudoirs, billiard and smoking rooms, aud
windows with views OF the osphorus; the
ladies have their books and music, their
flowers light and sweetness'-,heir modes
de Paris, their afternoon tea and gossip; tue
ard dancing parties. with ices and after
midnight suppers. Nothing more quantity
entertaining than European society in q
membered, is only a suburb, aud has at night
can be easily imagined"