The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29
THREE HUNDRED SERVANTS,

and 1t must take number OF hands to at
Eend 10 the thousands of horses and to
Keep the 200 royal carriages in good cOndi-
ti0u. The Sultan has his BARRIERS, his
musicians and his boatmen, and am told
that there are 100 pOrters at Yildiz who
10 nothing else but carry burdens.
The ladies of the harem have their
servants, and the hair dressers and the
dress-makers must be numbered by
hundreds. The less favored among the
women sometimes act as the servants of
4hc others, but many of these ladies
have their separate establishments with
their own eunuchs, slaves, doctors and
Deggars. They receive visitors in their
own apartments, and make visits to the
other ladies of the imperial city, which is
hidden behind the walls of the Sultan's
palace grounds. The feeding of 5000 or
1000 people every day, year in and year
Gut, costs fortune, and good part of the
SUitan's $l0,0O0,0O0 year
PASSES THROUGH THE HANDS OF HIS COOKS.
The chief part of the cooking for the
palace is done in the grounds where the
Emperor lives. The food is prepared at
the great palace of Dolma Bagtche, about
a mile away, and it is carried on trays on
the heads of the pOrters to the harem on
ihe hill. 1t is safe to say that a large part
OF the best of its dainties are served cold.
The Sultan never eats with his harem.
and il is not the custom for the sexes to
eat together in Turkey. His majesty sits
down to his meals with his officers of state.
He drinks his coffee out of gold cups. and
he uses a Turkish article which is as thick
AS TnOlasses and as strong as I've He has
MS ministers of state often to dine with
him, and he gives dinners frequently to the
diplomats at Constantine ole. At such din
uers he sits down with his foreign guests
save when their wives are present and he
IS said to be very good dinner table COM
panion. There are number of little
rooms in the palace to which he retires
with such Of his friends as he wishes
70 ENGAGE IN PRIVATE CONVERSATION,
and he carries on conversation with for
eigners through Interpreters. He can
speak French, but prefers to use the Turk
ish and an Interpreter in his conversation
dc believes in educating and he has n
school connected with his harem where the
little princes are taught French and the
modern sciences as well as the Koran.
The guests of the Sultan never get
peep into his harem. The man who would
attempt to enter the apartments reserved
for the women would be punished with
death, and a eunuch in COustantinOple has
= right to knock down any man who speaks
20 LADY under his charge. A foreigner
was nearly killed not long ago for address
ing lady Of high caste on the bridge
which crosses from STEAMBOAT to Pera, and
no one in Constantinople save the Sultan
has the right to ask lady to take off her
veil. The Sultan can go anywhere, and he
can penetrate the narem of his officers if he
will. This right, however, is never en-
forced, and he has quite enough to do to
keep the peace in his own family. Of late
years his ladies have been by no means so
s cluded as in the past, and much of their
restrictions are nominal. When the Sultan
made his annual trip to
KISS THE CLOAK OF THE PROPHET
Mahomet. which is kept in STEAMBOAT, 1 saw
at least hundred of them in his process
sion. They were in closed carriages. but I
could see plainly through the carriage win
,dows, and the wells which covered their
faces were of gau e so thin that I could
distinguish the layers Of paint on their