Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-23
MORNING CALL IN TURKEY.
How Constantinople Hostess Entertalns
Her Visitors

A lady who has recently visited Con
stantlnople, thus describes q morning
call. she, together with Nine. Szechenyt
PaSha, lady of European birth, made
upon Turkish lady: The house,
which was situated in the Kassim-
Pasha district. was an ordinary Turk
ish house, twO-storied, built of wood,
and with Tellis work before the win
dows. Each story contained two or
three rooms; the masters room was by
itself. and the windows We're not pro-
tected by trelliS work The furniture
consisted principally of low touches
running along the walls and covered
with rugs and low tables In the walls
there We're various CUpbOardS.
"A fat and very hideOus negro wO-
man let MS In. and conducted US to the
/ lady of the house. who was still in her
morning attire-trOusers of some
coarse Material and q chemise TO match,
and who disappeared at once, sending
instead her eldest daughter, Fatima,
I into the room. She was pretty girl,
is years old. with o sweet pale face, and
beautiful dark eyes. Her dress was
fairly European as regards the cut, but
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did her best 10 entertain us. She took
down q musical instrument kind OF
mandolin. from the wall and softly
/ playing it. she sang one OF those Turk
| ish songs which so aptly seem to depict
the life of Turkish women. The sOAg
was monOtonous and subdued and mel
I ancholy. and like it is the life Turkish
an-mOnOtOnOUs, melancholy and
I subdued
In the meantime. the negro woman
/ had brought us some preserver fruit
/ and I'm few places is this better than in
/ COnstantinOple-an Of course, Mocha
/ and cigarettes The uegress then sat
/ down. examined my garments, my
| gloves. my umbrella, and placed,
/ laughngly. he rfat black hands next
I TO mine The lady of the house now re-
/ turned. dressed in a gown which. for O
/ variety of colOrs, riyaled the rainbow,
a kind of teagreen with an immense
train, embroidered all over with gilt
/ buttons. She sat down and began TO
/ prattla in Turkish, what l did not un-
/ derstand my friend was good enough TO
| translate for me. In the course OF our
{ conversation our hostess took out her
} purse. a very large one, and showed us
/ the diamonds intended for the bridal
ornaments of her daughter. And how
she gossiped, She was going TO remove
from Kassim Pasha to a place where
there were fewer marriageable girls,
for here they We're so unbeara5ly jeGl-
GUS and enyious. They had recently
bee nto the valley OF the sweet wat
crs. where q Frankish gentleman had
passed them. and now the neighbOrS
say that Fatima had lifted her veil and
allowed the stranger 10 look into her
eyes. And O few days later a Frankish
gentleman had walked through Kassim
Pasha street. and looked up at the
houses. and they said it was the same
gentleman. and a good match Tor Fa-
TINA had been spoiled.
"Then she began 20 ask from where
came. how far III was away, and so on.
Her brother had been attached to one
ofthe Turkish legations i'm some vest
ern capital. but her ideas We're exceed
inely hazy. and I did my best to en-
I hghten her. Before we took leave they
showed the whole house, and Fatima
I produced with much satisfaction some
of her treaSures-a rug with a mosque
/ and q small tower she herself had made,
. a blotting pad published by the makers
i of some much-advertised ink, q tails
/ man presented to her by some Turkish
priest. and q photograph Of Hvette
+ Guibert: but the little Turkish maiden
did not tell me how she had become
! possessed of the portrait of this Paris
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