Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-15

Shops and PeddIers of All Sorts-DriE-
ing Bargain.
One of the first things you will notice is
the fez, worn by all the Turks. 1t is a red
felt cap with no visor, with fat top and
black silk tassel Turkish law requires every
male subject of the sultan to wear this kind
Of cap. The men wear very funny trousers.
There are no close fitting pantaloons, such as
men wear in America; but loose, baggy con-
trivances, which look like two large bags
fastened together at the top. These are
gathered around the waist with colored
girdle, which is sometimes very handsome
The streets are not much better than our
narrowest alleys, and SO crooked and dirty
We such not enjoy living in such streets, and
business would be quite impossible. You
never met so many dogs before. They are
big, yellow animals, and live in the streets.
They have no owners, but shift for them
selves as well as they can You Will STUN
BILE over them if you are not careful, for they
seem to think that the street belongs TO them
selves They lie down anywhere, before a
shop or in the middle of the street, and evil
IDENTIFY expect US to turn out for them. These
dogs organize themselves into bands, and
each company has its own district. 1t is dan
gerous for dog to leave his proper territory,
and he is likely to pay dearly for trespasslng
within his neighbors limits.
CANINE GENEROSITY.
The dogs are generous to each other. At
the soldiers barracks the dogs receive the
fragments after every meal One day when
the food was brought out only two dogs were
in sight. These might have h4d a grand
feast BY themselves. They did not take a
rnouthful, but started off at full speed in op-
posite directions Soon their barking sum-
moned the whole pack, and they ate their
dinner together.
know you will laugh at the shops in Con-
stantinople They are not like the beautiful
stores you have seen in our cities. with large
plate glass show windows and long rows of
elegant counters. In Constantinople the
principal stores are in bazaars. These
bazaars are large one story buildings, with
streets running through them in every direc-
ton. On each side of these streets are the
little shops. The floor is about two feet
above the street, and the owner usually sits
on the floor with his legs crossed under him.
The room is small, so that he can reach
many of his goods without rising. As we
pass along we can look in at the various
shops and examine their goods.
Let us stop at this dry goods store As
soon as the man sees US looking at his goods,
be takes his pipe from his mouth and begins
to chatter away in very lively fashion,
showing us some piece of goods If you show
any desire to make purchase, he will name
e high price, and pretend he is giving you
the article II you offer much smaller sum
he will fold up the cloth and put it away
with gesture Of horror When you turn
away, however, he will call you back and
take your own price or else make new offer
much below the first.
THE CARPENTERS SHOP.
One of the strangest places is the carpenter
shop Here you viii see man seated on the
floor behind a turning lathe. Instead of
using treadle as our workmen do, he has a
bow and string which he draws back and
forth with his right hand, and so makes the
wheel revolve. He holds the chisel in his
left hand and presses it against the wood with
his bare toes. Is that not a strange way to
use a turning lathel
You might think, where the stores are So
close together and the streets SO narrow, that
peddlers would have poor chance. Still
there are a great many of them who sell
fruit These men carry trays of fruit on
their heads. When they find good place to
STOP they set down the tray upon a high
stool, take their scales from their shoulders
and are ready for business. They sell almost
everything by weight and are usually care
full, though the scales may be very rude I
have seen them made simply of two wooden
saucers, suspended by strings from straight
stick. The bar was held by another string
fastened in the middle, and the eye must
judge when the two scales balanced. The
weights may be bits of iron or even broken
pieces of stone or brick. On the tray these
peddlars have large, luscious grapes, and will
give you all you can eat for a cent or two.
There are fresh green figs which do not look
much like the dried ones that come to us in
boxes The ounces are large and the people
cook them with meat. The chestnuts are
larger than ours, though not quite so sweet.
They are roasted, taken from the shell and
cooked with meat and potatoes in very nice
stew.
Other men carry tanks of water or lemon
ade on their backs, and jingle cups IN their
hands to attract attention. The funniest
way to carry water and wine is in the skins
of hogs or buffaloes. When full these look
almost like the animal from which the skin
has been taken. Thus you may often meet a
man with what looks like one or two hogs on
his back. The men who carry these wins
skins, as we'll as other burdens, have queer
saddles fastened to their backs, and put tbs
load on these
In the eating rooms you may see littls
stoves with soup cooking on them, or bits OF
meat roasting on spit over the Goals The
odors are inviting; but you may go hungry,
unless you can talk their strange language.
In ConstantinOpl- almost every language of
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