Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-29

rear they might lnJure the cause they re-
sumed their wells and announced that
they did not mind a little matter of a
veil, more or less.
Women Want Higher Education.
"It is not the outward signs of freedom
they care most for, but the freedom Of
education.
However important our work has been
in the past, therefore, present conditions
in Turkey emphasize the imperative need
OF the higher education of women. The
women OF Turkey stand second to none
in the world for natural ability and apti-
tude for progress of the highest degree
For all of these reasons 1t is very I'm
portant to enlarge the American College
for Girls and give it an equipment in
buildings and apparatus adequate for the
new demands Immediately made upon it.
NO subject is discussed with more
vigor in the new press in Constantinople
than that of the education OF women
In fact, prominent Turk remarked lately
that it would not be many years before
woman suffrage might be dema nded A
surgeon in leading hospital in CONSTANT
nople has lately opened his classes to
women. Hamd Bey. the celebrated Turk
ish archeologist. who a few years since
established a school OF fine arts for men,
has promised to open the same kind Of
school for women soon. Womens polit-
ical clubs are being organized In several
cities Of the empire. and are taking an
active part in affairs.
One Woman of High Attachments.
There is one woman in Constantinople
vino will compare well with any woman
anywhere in the world. Her name is
Halideh Salih. She is the wife of a pro-
fessor Of physics in the Imperial Turkish
University and the daughter of a high
official in the palace of the sultan. She
Il
Girls in Constantnople. That institution
is glad to have been able to offer a woman
like Halideh Saith as a leader at this
critical time in Turkey. She is writing
for all the Turkish papers and for some
foreign papers. Her articles in the Tan
min. the unofficial government paper, are
eagerly looked for and read by all classes.
She is member Of three women's clubs
in Constantinople and is president of one
of them. She also belongs to two mems
clubs. A press club and League for
Public Safety.
do you remember what I told you last
year about Mianzara Kaprielian, who
founded A college settlement in an obscure
village in the mountains of Asia Minor?
When the constitution was announced in
Turkey the people of that village got
together and made a compact not to steal
any more, and the owners Of the vine
yards and ounce trees have been aston
ished to find how much more fruit they
the backs of mules from this village
twenty miles and are sold nearly three
pounds for one cent.
Work Of American College.
''The freedom of the present time in
Turkey seems a sudden accomplishment,
but the seeds have been continually plant
ed during the last half century by Amer
lean educators. In this the American
Sane ~ horl
as it has been educating wives and moth
ers who in their homes have trained their
children in the desire for liberty according
to American ideals that were gained in
that college.
"Our college is coming out now into a
period of prosperity. The Turkish revo-
luton, that statesman-lke wonder OF
modern times in the political world, has
given US legal title to a new site which
we purchased last year. This is a park
of about fifty acres on the heights of the
Bosphorus just above Arnaoutkey, ON the
European shore. between Robert College
and town. 1t is a large manor estate,
beautifully laid out with trees, drives and
walks. with a private carriage road to
the Bosphorus and a small water front.
We paid the money for this property a
year ago according to Turkish law. You
will remember my frequent visits to
Washington last year in an attempt to
get a legal title. Under the old regime
TINS was 0lllCull, And might nave proved
impossible, but with the coming of lib
erty the whole aspect Of the matter was
changed. The young Turkey party is in
sympathy with American education and
DESTROYS Of promoting it, and our little
was legalized before the new party had
been in power month. The deeds are
now in our safe. The money is all paid
for the land. but we have no money yet
for the splendid row Of modern buildings
with which We expect to crown the
heights of Arnaoutkey.
Amply Justified by Results.
THE American College for Girls was
established by benevolent women in
America for the purpose of furnishing
higher Christian education for the women
Of tho east 1t is the only college for
women in the western Levant and it
draws the students from an area includ-
ing Greece and Albania on the west. the
region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
on the east. Egypt and Syria on the south
and Roumania, Bulgaria and Russia on
the north, COnStantinople is the capital