Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-10

with the new spirit that is now apparent
everywhere among the families of the
higher and middle classes
Many Turkish women have acquired the
French language. A few, speak English
and German, which they have learned
| few who have knowledge of books. But
now every woman wants to know and she
! is seeking in every direction for instruc-
ton that will aid her in performing her
duty to her husband her family and her
| self.
In recent article in the National
zine of London. Sir Edwin Pears.
correspondent of the London Times In
Constantinople for forty years. who knows
Turkey better than any Turk, gave an
| interesting review of this situation, and,
with other things. said:
There Is now held at the great Amerf-
| can College for Girls at Scutari weekly
class of about eighty Turkish women.
who are studying preventive medicine, the
proper sanitary regulations for house.
| hold. the management of children and
similar subjects of primary importance to
| the sex.
The lecturers are medical men. for the
hekin. or doctor, is privileged. Turkish
women may attend his lectures. while
conventionality would prevent their being
present at lectures given by any other
man.
II may mention here that no one has
done more for the education of the women
of Turkey than Dr. Mary Patrick, prin-
cipal of Scutari College. She is an en-
thusiastic teacher. whose influence upon
hundreds Of girls has been of incalcu-
liable value
Praise for Scotch Scientist
Sir William Ramsey. the eminent Scotch
scientist, in a book published by him con-
corning Turkey during the last year. said:
Robert College is one of the most re-
markable creations of pure, unselfish
beneficence, guided by admirable common
sense, that the history of the world has
known. 1t has been for more than fifty
years making educated middle class
among 1.-THE Christians Of southeastern
Europe and of Asia Minor
land many people who know this coun-
try we'll believe that it has done more to
render possible peaceful solution of the
eastern question than all the European
sole aim of the American missions and Of
Robert College has been to create self
respect and life in the people of this
country.
THE College American, for women,
at Scutari. which is soon going to mi
crate to new quarters on the European
side OF the Bosphorus, aims at doing
for the women Of the various races Of
doing for the men. 1t was started as a
high school in 1871. it was chartered
in 1890 as a college by the legislature
Of Massachusetts. and it has also an
imperial Turkish trade.
The language is English, and the
life is English or American. which in
this case are equivalent. But the ma
tive languages Of the students are also
which are to them classical. ancient
Greek, Latin, ersian and Arabic.
Spread Of Influence.
Hitherto" Sir William Ramsey con-
tinues. Turkish girls could be educated
at the college only in defiance Of
the will and the commands of the sui
tan, and therefore the number Of such
pupils has been small. Only two Mo-
hammedan girls have graduated
But the different races in Turkey
hive side and side. and what is taking
place. in one community is not hidden
from the other, especially such impor-
tant facts as the sending away to school
or college Of the daughters Of any fam
lily. and the inevitable, although grad
ual, changes in the ideas and life of
the people that result from education.
Many instances could be cited of the
imitation by Turks of new habits thus
introduced among their Armenian
neighbors by the daughters returned
from this college or educated at the
leges in the country.
The writer, Halideh Salih.' Sir VIII
liam Ramsey continues to say, lis a
graduate of the American College for
Girls, and l. writer Of distinction. She
has frequently been described as the
leading woman in Turkey in popularity
and influence.
Her first published work was a
translation into Turkish Of an English
book, The Mother in the Home, for
which she was decorated by the sultan.
1t always struck me as remarkable
that Mohammedan sultan-and that
Sultan Abdul Hamid-should be the
finst monarch to bestow such distinc-
ton upon a woman"
Foremost Turkish Women.
Halideh Salih is undoubtedly the
foremost woman in Turkey Her ia
Their was formerly minister Of finance
for many years under Abdul Hand.
He sacrificed his political position
and prospects by sending his daughter
to the American College for Girls Such
an act was forbidden by the sultan.
She spent sever years under Or. Pat
ricks instruction. graduated in 1901,
and married professor In the Imperial
University.
1.-The Mother In the Home" Is an old
fashioned book for girls, written by
Rev. Jacob Abbott seventy-five or
eighty years ago. She translated 1t
into Turkish when she was freshman
in the American college.
Her father was so proud OF 1t that he
had 1t printed and circulated privately
among the families of his friends in
Constantinople and other Turkish