The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-23

! 1908 1t is an extremely rarefcdition
and / would have given several dol.
lars for it.
Being in English. the shop-keeper
! did not value the book. but still ask
ed an inflated price for it, | took
careful note of the location OF the
shop and happened by the next
day. The old fellow spied me immed-
lately and came rushing out with
the book. which / purchased for 4
piasters- about 1G cents American
money. II is this way with every
merchant in Smyrna that | have en-
counteTed, not only the smaller ones,
but the proprietors of the larger
ssoras whore beautiful and costly
silks and Oriental fabrics are for sale
in endless profusIon.
AS in Turkey, the windows Of all
dwellings are closely latticed. and as
one walks by on the narrow sidewalk
you will frequently discover several
pairs oil eyes peerlng out through the
narrow apertures a foot or more dis
iant. and the effect is somewhat un-
canny until You realize that 1t is prob
ably bevy of dark-skinned. dreamy
eyed D,aidens ''rubbering" at the
white stranger Tho women of this
country are the most discreet things
I've eyev seen In my life (outside the
muscle dancersD, In fact. mover
thought such discretion existed
have had no active experience as yet.
but the general atmosphere which
prevails leads me 10 believe that the
foreigner may do well to practice mild
discretion upon his own part, and.
when monotony pals. 70 20 sit quiet
ly in a Turkish theater. drink the
thick. black coffee and forget Broad
way In a packet OF cigarettes.
The street vendors of Smyrna are
interesting typo, from the man with
a basket drape6 Yith ring-pretzels as
big around as a >, to the meat man
who goes yelling ng the avenue car
rying al or 10 l.pole strung with
fresh (?) liyers = stecently severed
goat-heads. A smss.-J>in the face with
a fresh liver simply means that the
Casters In Bills neck" were turning
the wrong way.
A lowned villain carrying a small
satchel and artistically yelling chant
Is not maniac, but a barber and
for one plaster he VIII back yon on to
Il barrel or into a fence corner. lather
your face with his greasy palm and
proceed TO shave you within an inch
OF your life. Not any for mine,
thanks. but | have been an interested
spectator from a distance several
times The communicant sits en-.
shrouded In the BARRIERS apron and
.Olds even with his chin a soup-plate
of soap-suds which effectually keeps
him quiet during the subsequent op-
Grafton as false move would deluge
him with the suds.
~ Their brooms here are peddled In
Fe streets and ara like ours except
- the handles are about inches
VI %, nccessitating a STOPPING posi-
Nj by the sweeper. As in every
oNer country OF Europe. roast chest
nuns IRE q staple article OF food: here
at least. One would think so by the
streets NIHow the venders exc out a
living is m6rS than know. The nuts
arc not like thoNe in America, but arc
of immense sizeSSnearly as large as
walnuts-and the fleHor is poor.
"Butter-tailed" sb II q forget the
scientific name) 0GF smmon Per
maps many have IS enl III the
states At the pt.'tvoA unity of
the animal. whert sroS~ Is the
tail. is huge, VA app9 and
age ten or twelve, long d
wide and three or i,es tbil
a cushion-shaped fthe eXttS
ity of which growsroolly
II is composed larg, cat az
fried and eaten as , of e
tute for butter. Thu cert
curious looking sheep5
From Smyrna I shalln 10
stopping first in Alexaa H.
absence of type writlneNitii
few leisure hours in whto 4
them. these communicates
nothing but hurrledly-wten
and should be indulgentlcou
as sucn. no other attempteid
than to set down briefly Up
which come first TO mind \
the many things I have ser
Respectfully. ~ W. HA