The Forrest City times., 1905-08-04

turn his stomach with no cream of tto harem, only they must keep their hands off him, and the sultan promised ne should be as safe as "uniau@ :" whatever that is.
 h'd and l had hired knee brooches ana things of masquerade kall store and we didn't look half had when the ctowl of shieks and things formed Il crescent around the sultan. who sa. in a sort of barbsr's chair with an avn Ing over 1t, and they sounded a hew gag or something. and about a dozan pretty tine looking females, dressed like the pallet in a vaudeville show. came m anu began to dance before the sul- tan.
 Dat stood It first rate until a girl got oh the carpet barefooted and began one ot those willow sort of dancas that nearly broke up the Chicago fair. when people left the buildings filled "tth the work of the worlds artists Ill all lines of progress, and went to the Midway in body to see Little t.SyDt.' but when this dancer waltzed up to dad and wiggled in foreign Ian 8aase dad sashayed up to her and I couldn't hold him back.
 He vas just getting warmed up to
 balance to partners" when a frown came over the sultan's face. and he looked cross at dad. and then the he"gas sounded. and the girls scat 'eteu cut of side door, and dad want cd to follow, but I held him by the coat, and it was over. think those siti3 were the only ones in the whole nafem that were good looking.
 Dad breathed hard little from his exercise, and said he was ready to in 8pect the stock, and the sultan de- tailed tall negro, with a face dried up like a mummy. and we started out through the harem. dad pulling the long hair on the side of his head over his bald spot, and throwing his shoul- ders back and drawing in his stomach. to make him look young.
 We'll, say, there is nothing about & harem, much different from keeping house at home, except that there is more of it. The idea people get of harems is that the women are all young and beautiful, and that they sit around swimming tank and play guitars and keep the flies off the mar who owns the place. while he smokes tue Vile Turkish tobacco burning in a 1ardiniere. through a section of rubber hose, and goes to sleep like a China man smoking opium, and that they drink rare wines and dance with ban S'es on their legs and ropes of pearls on their necks and arms
 l have seen alleged limitations of Turkish harem on the stage. with American girls doing the acting, and It would make you feel as though you would invest in a harem when you got old enough. but, gee, when you see a regular harem. run by an up-to-date Turk, you think of the Mormon apostle who has 40 wives of all ages. from 70 down to a l6-year-old hired girl. with a hairlip and warts on her thumbs. This harem was like big stock barn in the states. with a big room to ex- ercise the colts, and box stalls for the '''A'A Nht HifCo anu lutlI 1dIuIlltS lO live in and do their own cooking and washing.
 Instead of sitting by a bath playing a harp, the poor old wives stand by washtub and play tunes on the wash board, and scrub, and take care of children thought the custom of spanking children was an American in stitution, but it is as old as the ages, for saw Turkish mother grab up a child that had lifted a kitten by the tail, and take it across her knee and give it few with red hand covered with soapsuds. and the young Turk yelled bloody murder. just like an American kid, and then sat down on it's knees. so the spanking wouldn't hurt, and called it's mother names fn a language I couldn't understand, but I knew what the child said, by instinct. Dad started to interfere, because he is membeS of the humane society, but