Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24
Mrs. Lew Wallace Describes the Sui.
tau's SsragIio--The Enchantrsss
of Many Lovers.
Daughters Of Love Who Spend their
Days on Cushions OF Rose Leaves
In Cool Periumed ChsMbsrs.
Etiquette of the Hare m-The Queen Mother
"A Barge that Rivals in Gorgeousness
that of Cleopatra.
copyrighted, 1881

scent without q lateral branch. At Oh
Sersglio Point thirty successive Sultan
held thier sumptuous state till sbou
forty years ago, when the chain o
palaces bordering the Msrmora was burn
ed and the court was removed to Yildiz
on the heights beyond Pera.
Beautiful for situation is Yildiz
Palace Of the Star. Built nobly in q psrI
of many hundred acres, 1t overlooks al
amphitheatre of stately cities witt
domes, towers, minarets, castles, islands,
seas, fleets, and in the fairness of the dis
lance the Mysisn Olympus panorama
of vivid color and varied movement with,
out G peer on the globe. What St
James Palsce is to London Is YilGiZ To
the Turk-the center Of interest in Con.
stantinople, the well-gusrded, "the en-
chantress Of many lovers"
Barracks have been added till it is in
reality citadel, and there beats the
heart and plots the brain Of Islam. With
in the walled enclosure are k'osks OF
marble and gold, outbuildings, stables, s
military c4mp and parade-grouud, cypress
groves, unshorn forests, gardens with
every kind of singing bird; miniature
city with the delights CT the country as
1O1b1Cbo anu GAHSAuo1ys liz
least attempt of an Unauthorized person to
enter the buildings appropriated to men
is punishable by death. 1t would come
as lightning stroke should any try to ap-
proach the forbidden rooms into which
one man enters; the uncontrolled, ire
eponsibIe master of hundreds of women.
Among them are no family distinctions,
no records, no questions of ancestry,
hereditary titles or names. All have
started from the same level, each one has
been slave bought by the mother or
sisters of the Sultan, educated to her
position, and presented to him on the
third day Of the Feast Of Beirsm, the
Night of Destiny, when the Koran de-
scended in q silver roll from hesven. Nor
are they married. to him. The Padishs,
being above law, cannot submit to matr1-
monial bondage. Since Gilman, Illus
trious 10 nder of the empire bear
ing his rame, girded on the
sword, which is the imperial sceptre,
but two Ottoman sultsns have mar
ried. OF the mates we call wives only
four hold the highest rank. All have
been chosen for personal charm, and are
in the bloom of youth; by far the larger
number are from Circassis, the ancient
Clochis, from whose palace gardens
GreciaD heroes stole their brides in the
dim centuries before the Had WAS writ
ten.
Imagination is bewildered by thought
of such an array OF beauties set in palatial
spleHdoEs.
Thnes live for one sole purpose-the
stumespf pleasing him who has lifted the
si1Islg feet Of ,, -. o
7rG1Tthe mire and rested them on cush
IONS of ross-leaves and elder-down. In
stead Of grinding toll, they enjoy the
sweetness of rest; one cotton gown is ex-
changed for bright raiment and jewels
rare; for black bread and goats milk,
they have suppers for Sybsrites, honey of
orange flowers, the sherbet OF violets and
sugar. Bach od4lisque has her kiosk,
her court, grand officials, boats lined
with satin, gilded csrrisges, and trained
servants shod with slippers Of silence,
who minister to them in cool, perfumed
chambers. The career depends on their
own tact and grace. By these gifts the
ragged beggar may succeed to the highest
rank, and compel Processes to kiss the |
ham of the garment.
One will in the harem is supreme as q
providence or destiny. To this power,
before which great and small are but
dust, is yielded absolute submission |
Says Janills (the Exalted,) teaching the |
newly arrived Lsleli pink Tulip and |
Beneflsh white Violet: "Should the |
prince at MONDAY say it is night, declare |
your feet are wet with dew and that You |
behold the moon and the stars"
In February new palace was ordered. |
IN June 1t was completed and furnished |
fountaios playing, cascsded dashing, |
nightingsles nesting among roses in
bloom. We know how the Turks furnish. |
In the summer palace one room |
is hung with pale blue silk, |
another with Bfoussa satin, tapestries |
of Indis and broideries of Persia. There |
are no pictures, they encourage profsni-
tY; no statues, they lead to idolstry. |
The Prophet Che rests In gloryD was a |
hater Of idols. In the day OF judgment |
pictures and statues will rise and flock |
rounp the artists who produced them and |
call on the unhappy makers 70 supply |
their creatures with souls.
Humanity Is unchAngeable; the King |
of 8 hundred kings, the Shadow Of God
upon Earth, must have his preferences
and naturally the reigning fsvorite makes
the most of her brief season of command. |
Doubtless tears, clamors, pouting, work |
the same results in onstantinople that |
they do in Washington.
TIE LUXURIOUS HAREM
msy have some dull corner where the |
discarded f4Vorite may weep neglected |
while her victorious rival sweeps by in |
triumph. The Turks are tender in The |
extreme to animals and children, and we
must believe they are also gentle toward |
women. Sometimes the caprices Of wives
have beea costly % the Sultan to the |
empire. Szltsu Ibrshim allowed his to |
take what they pleased from shops and
bszssrs without payment. One houri |
complained; she did not like shopping |
BY daylight; and st once the sovereign |
issued an order requiring merchants
to keep their shops open all |
night, and To have enough torches |
burning 10 exhibit goods TO sdvan-
tnge. Another, whose naIae means Little
Bit of Sugar, whispered to Ibrsnim that
she. wanted to see him with his beard
fringed with gems. The Lord Of lords
was adorned accordingly, and made a
spectacle of himself thss tricked out.
Enormous treasures were lsvished on
chariot, asd, ss in the days OF Solomon,
silver was nothing accounted Of But
these whims are in the records Of 200
yesrs aeo, when the milk-white hand Of q
queen tighteAeA the bow-str1sg for the
Grand Vixter, the Cabin Of 27c0 shawls
reigned over two continents and two
seas, and the odslisq1e ct 100 silver car
riages ruled the imperial Divans.
A conau{euona .eraon anOut the nAlAce