Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-08
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 THOMAS HESRY BURKE.
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Without intelligent sympathy at home, fcr- bidden all amusement and diversion ont of doors, ignorant of boyish sports, even of riding, probably the Turkish lad falls into dissipation For any kind of vice he finds liberty enough at Stamboul. No Christian have I ever met so bold, even in imagination, as to draw picture of the dark places in that city. But several of these educated youths have assured me that the luxurious temptations of Immortality in Stamboul-not Pera nor Galata-are unequaled in their not inc0nsiderable experience of Europe.
 The state of. society was revealed to me with rather startling force one day. I called upon young Mahomedan whose English education has made him one of ourselves in all respects saving that 1t has not shaken his religious faith. He held in his arms lovely child of two years old or SO. who sore 4med with passion. small Circassion boy, fair haired, blue eyed, was trying to distract her, but the apparitlon of the 'fChelebi" was more successful.
 The children were presently dismissed to the harem, and my friend observed :-
 'I dread to think of that boys departure. My baby has the temper of a little fiend, and only he can manage her"
 Knowing the small Circassian to be slave I asked why he was leaving.
 ''I must send him to Robert college soon" was the reply, land get another playfellow for the child"
 Robert college is the American school where so many middle class youths are being edu- cated-Eell educated, too, though perhaps the training is not in all respects the best.
 l said: 1.-The kindness of your people to- ward their slaves is well known to me, but I did not think it ran so far as to pay their ex- penses at college"
 He answered, laughing: Mot as rule, of course. But my intention is to marry those two if Ahmet turns out well He is clever and we'll disposed The missionaries will keep him honest, hope"
 This was such a novel view of the relation between bondslaTe and mistress that dis cussed the matter at length several times.
 My friend told me that such matches, never rare In Turkey, are nov quite usual The state of morals is such in Stamboul that par ents do not willingly take daughter or They distrust all the world. It has lately be- come a common thing to choose a slave, boy or girl to grow up under their eyes. The first expense averages, perhaps, $40, and the female child costs little She is taught truth fitness and virtue, fine sewing, the mystery of coffee making and of filling a pipe-the arts of very simple housewife. A boy is vastly more expensive, as in this case he must be sent to school, launched upon some kind of employment, and provided for until the parents are satisfied that he will make their child happy. Then the pair are marri- ed and the ex-slave becomes a member of the family, though that makes little change to him.
 My Moslem friend is on such terms with me that I speak of his wife almost ss freely as I should speak of Christians. Remem- Der that he was brought up in England and speaks the language as well as we. Many readers acquainted with Constantinople will know to whom refer.
 To my question how the chiId's mother re- garded this idea, he answered that 1t was her own conceiving And then he related vari- ous stories of domestic misery and crime within her knowledge, which had brought his wife to fixed resolve that her daughter should not wed Turk of Stamboul-
 asked what she proposed to do if this little slave died before marriage.
 ''In that case" said the father, "ve are determined to look out a husband in Syria, where there are still honest men"
 Such is the view which Turk. educated in the real sense, expresses of his country men-not the elder, but the new generation, of whom so much is hoped