The Newark journal., 1905-10-06

clined to be fearful, but Nahseli Hanum bade her take heart. for all would be we'll
 Suleiman dined with his friends at 12 o'clock Turkish. and at two o'clock. when darkness had settled down upon the evening, he was told he could go in to his bride. But she had imposed a curious condition; for a whole night he must not light the candle.
 When Sleiman's neighbors had left him, laughing in their sleeves at the joke, he entered the dark room A strong scent of rose and a simmer of white led him to the sedia where Melek sat, cold and shaking.
 He took her hand and welcomed her to his house; sho replied by monosylla- bles. thus showing herself a modest woman. not over free with her tongue. As the night advanced. Suleiman fell into a sentimental mood, and rehearsed with much self-pity his trials with his first wife
 ''I assure you. Hanum. he said. she was quite impossible to live with. so cross and annoying: with you will al- ways be tender. but with her I was forced to be rough. Allah how she bored me!-talk, talk. talk! Truly it is said that one word provOketh al atLer. and often l answered her sharply. lut 1 could never put her down. It is good advice to woman: Open your eyes. but not your mouth. And so he maun- dered on about his past troubles.
 Melek said nothing but he felt her sympathy so powerfully that he grew eloquent in abuse of his poor first wife, all the time assuring her of his devotion to this amiable woman at his side.
 With the passing hours he grew more expansive. and told his wife tales that he would never have confessed in The light. As he had detested Melek he had not thought it necessary to be loyal to her; no. with cruel triumph he told his bride how he had deceived the other woman as often as he could He had made eyes at the inman's wife. and had one day kissed the housemaid of the pasha who lived in the great house; he had lifted the veil of the girl who came to draw water at the fountain. He re- counted his unfaithfulness with pride.
 For Hanum Effendi. such a woman could expect nothing else from her hus. band. She was not so bad looking" he reflected. but as our proverb runs, Without she is a doll. within a devil. !"
 Poor Melek was as still as any doll now. scarce daring to breathe, for fear of pouring out sobs and grief.
 At length Suleiman noticed her si- lence. and felt a sudden strong desire to see this quiet, plump creature to whom he had been unbosoming himself
 "Hanum," he begged. T know you are as beautiful as you are sweet. to you will ever be a true and loving husband; but let me see your face, light but once the candle and let me see the eounte- nance of her whom swear to cherish as the apple of my eye
 Melek could endure no more: she has tily struck a match and lit it to the candle. revealing to the amazed sulei- man the woebegone face of the wife ne had been abusing.
 Suleiman was filled with horror at his cruelty. The pale tear-stained face of his wife cut him to the heart; he thought with distress of all he had said to her. In the candle light she looked pretty and lovable. and he had hurt her. He fell upon his knees and kissed her feet. pressing them to his breast, he begged her in piercing tones to forgive him. and trust him for the future. He called himself a brute. and her his angel returned to him. In short. he made his peace with the patient wife. who was all too ready to listen to his pleading.
 Both Suleiman Effendi and Melek Hanum learned lessons from this ex- perience. and after it understood each others needs and peculiarities better than before. Remorse kept the hus- band true to his wife. and the sharp ex- perience curbed her somewhat restive tongue Thus it came about that Sulei- man and Melek lived together until old ago in harmony.
 "Melek" is Turkish for "angel"- Sp; .ngfield Republican.