The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
NO WOMEN ALLOWED IN IT.
Town in Macedonia in Which the Resi-
dents Are All Bachelors.

Town in Macedonia in Which the Resi-
dents Are All Bachelors.
From Household Words.
The marine village of Tupuselei, in New
Guinea would take a lot of beating on
the score of singularity. Here the houses
are all supported on piles and stand right
ous in the ocean, some considerable dis
lance from the shore. The object OF this
strange position is to protect the inhabi-
tants against sudden attacks OF the dread
ed head-hunters, who are always on the
lookout for victims. Other villages In TINS
happy land are prched up in all but in
accessible trees for the same weighty rem
son.
Another curious place Is a town without
a name on one of the arms of Lake
Huron. This consists of some 800 wooden
huts. During the summer these little
dwellings are hidden away in clearing
on shore. and the town contains not
single inhabitant. But on the arrival OF
winter, when the lake is frozen over with
a thick coating Of ice, the owners of the
huts arrive and proceed to move their
houses out on the surface of the lake.
The floor of the huts is taken up, and a
hole cut through the ice. Through these
hole the residents fish, carrying on their
operations until the spring releases the
lake from its icy bonds, when this extra
ordinary town is once more broken up, the
shanties go back to their resting place
and the fishermen scatter over the coun-
try. This place even boasts curing fac
tory and church, not to mention several
saloons-all on the ice.
Athos, town situated on a promon-
tory on the coast Of Macedonia, well de-
serves the title of the most curious town
in the universe. The peninsula is known
as 1.-The Mountain of the Monks" from
the fact that a score or so of monster
les are dotted about the rough hillsides of
the valleys. In these establishments dwell
a numerous body of ascetics, kind and
hospitabe to wanderers, but full of super
stition, and believing in the doctrine OF
separation to wonderful degree. the
actual town, as distinct from its mon
astic environs, is called Caryes, and sup
plies the simple wants of the monks. Here
are to be found streets of shops, crowded
bazaars, f1ourishing trades and all the
hustle and energy of a modern town. But
one thing soon strikes the visitor as
strange. There is not female to be seen
anywhere, for the gentler sex is rigor-
ously banishd from the place. Even the
small Turkish garrison from the COM
mandant down to the privates consists OF
bachelors.
This extraordinary law is carried out
| even among the domestic animals. Only
inc WHO DlTuS tNdut II, anu lAeh ohis
when free. for no female bird is ever
| brought to table; the fowl one has for din
me- is sure to be cockerel. For this un-
| parallel state of affairs there is only g
legend to account. Although to our prac
| teal minds fiimsy to a degree, it is i'm
plicitly believed in by the inhabitants. i
| appears that in one of the chief monas
teries on the promontory there is mirac
T ulous icon, which is a picture or imag
| sacred to members of the Russo-Greel
church. This particular picture is a repre-
sentation of the Virgin, and the legent
says that one day as the Empress Pull
cheria, who had literally endowed tn
church (as well as beautified and restore'
it,, was engaged in her devotions, tn
| Virgin spoke. asking what she, woman
wac doing in the church. The pious lady
no doubt amazed, did not reply, where
| upon the voice commanded her to leave
| saying that the feet of a woman shou'
| never again tread the floor The EN-
press, probably surprised at the seeming
ingratitude of the speech, as well as awe
struck left the place, which no femal
has since entered. How the prohibition
thus arbitrarily established. came to com
prehend the length and breadth of tn
pre- montory is not very clear. AS resi-
dence for bashful bachelors we should i'm
agine Athos would be hard to surpass.