The Nevada picayune., 1885-09-24
Beautiful Women.

Enquirer: There is now in Wheel ing the only native Circassian who ever became a naturali2ed Amcri- can. Born in the Caucasus, he was at a tender age torn from his home and people by their Russian coqucrers, baptised into the Greek Church and educated for q military career At his baptism he receiv- ed the name of Paul Nicholadse, which he still uses, because his Cicassian name is scarcely pro. nounceable for English tongues. He is fifty years old though he looks scarcely fcrty. He is q dis tinguished and striking looking gentleman. He speaks English well, but with some traces of fa- miliarity with guttural ton9s. I asked MT. Nicholadse the other day about the Circussian women: "Are they as beautiful as we are led to suppose"
 Said he: Yes sir nearly all are They have creamy compleXions, with delicate red tiuts on their cheeks rounded shoulders and beautiful necks; faultless forms.-- You should see their arms which are ..bare in house costume You never saw such arms in pie, ture. Their hair is worn long, and and is always black or very dark and blue eyes. Just think of that picture"
 "Then the Circassian beauties we see in the dime museums are all impoStors."
 "Sure. There are no women in this country like them. They have the fresh beauty of childhood with woman's form. You know they develop quickly. Mothers F years old are common i'll my coun- try. A girl is as old there at II as she is here at 20. Most women are grandmothers at 30. Then they decay as quickly; they live long lives, but they lose their rounded forms. Stil they are sometimes nt tractiye III old age.
 "When a girl is born soft leath- CT corset is sowod around hcr waist, and that stays there till shC is married. Then 1t is cut off, and her waist remains small and ill &
 beautiful shape. They have small
 pretty feet and beautiful hands
 too. That is looked after as thCy grow up. They do no hard worl and their feet are only shod Il loose sandals with covers and tieXi { blc soles.'
 "How do they dress"
 "Tneir costume,is very pictur
 esque. They wear loose silk pan talloons which reach the knee, ant finely wrought stockings. Their only upper garment is close fit ting, sleeveless vest, with ckirt!
 behind like q long coat, snd GU
 away in front, leaving q small trl : angular space above the corsag'
 without clothing. Underclothinl
 is unknown there and in all otheI
 eastern countries. The women when in the presence of any bu
 their husbands, are closely yelled
 That is true in all Mohammedai countries. The reason is, th, . Koran teaches, we can sin with th' | eyes. A Mohammodan woman at least Circassian woman
 would welcome death as an alterna
 tive to life among Christians an'
 to be exhibited with bare face t' Christians; you have no womei , who live half as degraded a life a. that would be regarded"
 "It was once so," MT. Nichol adsc continued, "tlat many Circas sian girls were kept in harems il : Constantinople and ether cities
 They were sold virtually by thel r parnets to rich Turks. The Koral t allows that. Even in Circasslal
 marriages the bride was ill q man
 ner sold by her parents. That wa
 an old custom but did not pre-
 clude tender love for the girl D,
 her parents, nor prevent marriage of choice. Now there are few Cir
 cassian girls. Most of the white f beauties iu the harems are Georgl
 ans who are much like the Circas
 sians and Armenians. An Armen , ian would sell his soul for gold. "The very education that girl ,aoeive who are intended for thl