Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-28

menian women are good housekeepers. |
lhey are much more cleanIy than the |
TURKS, and evan their novels are kept |
clean.
QUEER MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.
They have a better home lie than tie |
turks. A man can have but one wife, |
but the families Of several generations
often live IN one house, 10 which case
iie daughierin.law is. TO a large extent
the servant OF her husbands family
she ha, 10 obey her iathet.in-laW, aud
during the FIRST days Of her married
lie she ! not allowed to speak to her
husbands parents. or any OF the family
who are Older than herself until her
iather'in law gives her petmIs ion Up
TO his time she wears re- veil, as q
badge OF her subsection. and this veil is
often Kept on unit her FIRST baby IS BON.
Armenian grls are married very young
Eleven or twelve is considered quite old
enough, and women are still young
when they have sons aged twenty. Mar
riages are arranged bv parents or by
go.betweens. The usual wedding day
IS Monday and on the Friday before
he marriage the bride Is taken to the
bath with great ceremony On Saturday
she gives a big feast 90 her girl friends.
On sunday there is a feast .or the boy-,
and on Monday the welding lascs
place. II usually occurs at tue church,
where the priest blesSes the ring and
makes pfaS cts over the wedding gar
menis. There are numerous other Ger.
| cmonies, making the wedding last from
| three to eight days. One curious Gus.
tom is that shortly after her return from
the church the children present rush to
pull OF the brides stockings, IN which
have been hidden some cons Of money
ior the occasion, and another Is the
placing Of baby boy on the knee Of
the bride, and as she sits beside the
groom on the diyan, with the wish that
She may become happy mother
now NoitAMMEDAN FANATICS RULE
TURKEY.
The real cause Of these outfages is,
to a large extent religious idnaucism.
The better classes ol the Turks and the
more intelligent Of the Mahommt dams
would probably stop them II they could.
The sultan has, am told, tried to do
so, but he /, afraid oi his life. lie real
| ICES that II the common people get the
| idea that he Is false TO his religion he Is
/ almost sure OF assassination. The lmans
| and the Sheiks, or, IN other words, the
| Mahommedan pfiest, to a large extent
| rule Turkey today. They arc, In most
| cases, ignorant and int leraut AT the
read OF them IS the Islam, or
Guud Mutt. He is spp .ulcu 10y the
sultan, and the sultan cannot kill lin so
long as he hOlJs his title, though he can
dcpust HIM. The sultan himself cannot
he ocpOsed unless the Gu.ud Muit, so
dtcfecs lie Is q sutt &C a supreme
Judge In addition TO bis religious charac'
ter. Among the Mahommedan fanatics
there are q large number known rs der
wishes, who roam au,ut from country Il
country melting trouble They az,
walking delegates, as 20 were, for The
killing OF Christians. They sumulat,
the religious zeal OF the people ant
make violent speeches against un
believers. They fast much and thcl
have curious methods OF worship. On'
class Is known as the wheeling der
wishes whom you may see any Ftidal
going through their worship ~ Cunstan
linople. They dress IN long white robes
fastened at the vast with black belts
b and on their heads they wear high sugar
loaf hats. They sing the Koran as the
whirl abuu' In the mosques Ashley X
on the eli OIL priest makes prayers. The
whirl faster and faster, until at last thel
. long skirts stand out like those Of
. ballet dancer. They become red In IN
. face, and some finally drop to the groun
/ IN fits,
S Another class Of these fanatics are III
{ howlers. There is a great organizatio
, | made up Of these In Turkey, and the
( have probably been largely concefne
. In melting feeling against The Armenian,
I have visited their mosques, but de,
' pair OF adequately describing the IL re
4 ligious gymnastics. They work them
. selves into a frenzy by gasping an
E | bowling out the name Of God, aud III
defyishts OF the interior parts Of Tui
! KEY oien take knives and cut themselye
aud each other In religious ecstscl
/ They 10 into epileptic FITS and foam a
the mouth, and the most Of them thin
Z that the killing OF a Christian is a sur
4 passport to heaven. would say, how
3. ever, that these people are the crank
4 OF Mohammedanism and that they az
not = fair sample Of the Mohammeda
E world.