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Considering the Fly Calmly.

With some degree OF good nature We
now may consider the case OF the ~.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, that consohna
alarmist speaking before the community
Comfort" section of the American CIVIC
Association, advises us TO. ana we maF
do so philosophically. the fly having taken
its unlamented departure.
The good doctor anticipates the al
proach of the time when MODERN cieah|
w bouse will consider itself shaped and
disgraced by the presence OF ny ~
already finds itself exasperated and lot
mented. and the promised emotion can Do
no more IN secondary.
We : - medical authority
for a prr ecv Iirg our future feel.
ings on tia. sa.ev,, ,.aatever they may
be. We have achci the limits OF hu-
man poss'hii ties in that direction already.
To feel merely ashamed or disgraced
would be relief. What we would re-
gard as a high favor. looking ahead APP
prehensively to next summer. is good
operating scheme to prevent the presence
OF flies We may accept every precautions
known TO modern domestic and sanitary
science, but the pests which Dr. Hutch.
inson says are worse than rattlesnakes
defy them. We may follow the advice Of
our own health department and swat
Justify from the rising up of the gun ia
the going down thereof. but they persist
in attendance. We have no control over
neighboring places where the hatcheries
may be, and we are peculiarly helpless.
1t is useless to talk of ordinary expe-
dents. Aside from the fact that the cat
might get in the fly paper, that method
offers only mild palliation. Screens are
not sure defenses. Swattfng does not exc
terminate. Cease, then, to tell us we
must rid our domiciles of flies and come
quickly with an explanation of how We
may.
The fly has no friends. II 1t were NOT
a disease carrier ii would be impossible
because of social limitations. 1t Is too
familiar, and its attentions are not made
the more agreeable when We understand
that II is guided not by sight but by
smell. With an appreciation of that fact
we properly regard its advances ~ ins
suiting as well as exasperating.
We may consider the subject calmly,
because at this season there are no nies,
but what We demand from our medical
advisers is an effective suggestion a.
to methods of keeping them out Of tha
house next summer.
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MARRIAGE CSTC

the black girls who were brought across
the Sahara from Central Africa ena
shipped through Tripoi into syria ana
other parts of Turkey. Before the Eng
lish took hold of Egypt this traffic wa
carried on through the Nile valley anu
it was winked at by the officials IL -
said to be still I'm vogue in Morocco, ana
slaves are brought in from parts OF the
Caucasus to Constantinople.
According to the law Of the Koran MAJ
riages with slaves are legal. The wives
of the sultan are largely. slaves VINO are
brought in from Georgia and Circassia, q
plump bright-eyed red-headed Wnite-
skinned girl being worth as mucn as .
half dozen white horses. j am tolo Ihas
Circa ssian girls are glad to be SOLO OUT
OF the hardships which they are sure "
find in their own country They arc s
bought young and are trained up LOT
wives. such as can play on the zither
and other musical instruments pIins
more than the ignorant. and the oioh9 9'
Is worth more than the brunette. ~
the past 5000 was not high rrice Ior
Circassian girl and any good-looRins
Georgian maiden of twelve wouid pfins
s2,O and upwards. According TO law sns
children of such slaves are IeslttmaIs,
FRANK G.. CARPENTER 4
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the finger nails and toe nails Of the bride
a4e stained red with henna and they be-
gin to deck her out for the wedding.
Thursday the bride Is taken to the
groom's house in a great procession, and
there the two eat candy. exchanging
mouthfuls or bites, the idea being that
nothing but sweetness is hereafter to
pass from the lips of one to the other.
The bridegroom has not seen the bride
until this time. He here says a prayer
in the presence of the bride, kneenng on
her bridal veil as he does SO.
X *
Among the Mohammedans of Palestine.
so says my guide Shammas. the we'd
ding usually takes place at the mosque,
and the bridegroom meets his bride when
she is on the way thither, although she
is so yelled that he cannot see her. She
is dressed all in white and is carried I'M
der a canopy on the shoulders of four
men. At the mosque the wedding ser
mon is given, and at the end of this the
b.ide goes to the house of her husband.
AS she steps over the threshold she bends
down and passes under two crossed
swords upheld by his friends. This
means that if she is not true to her hus-
band he will kill her. She is taken first
to the women'S apartment or harem. over
the door Of which has been placed a
piece of leavened dough with a green
leaf lying upon it. She presses the palm
of her hand on the leaf and into the
dough, thus signifying that the home
into which she has come will flourish.
In some cases the bride breaks piece
of leavened bread and gives to the young
people to eat.
After she has entered her own apart
ment in the grooms house there is
feast. the guests sitting on the floor and
eating course after course of meats and
vegetables. interspersed With candies and
sirupS. In some cases the groom has
to make the bride SPEAK before the dim
uer will be served, and it is virtue with
her to keep silent just as Iona IS she
cal.
IL is the genera! idea among Christians
that Mohammedan wives have ~ rights
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the face can be plainly SEEN 1t is thus
that the harem of the sultan is dressed.
and thus the wives of all the rich men.
Here in Damascus the women stick to
wells of lowered muslin or black crepe,
and they wrap themselves in great bal
loon like cloaks of black silk or calico.
These bulge out above and below where
they are tied at the waist, making each
maiden look like two huge Jumps of
sausages as they wadde along. I see
hundreds of them every time go through
the city. They throng the baZaarS, where
they bob back and forth as they talk
with the merchants. They may be seen
picking treir way through the side streets
or sitting on the floors of the mosques
reading the Koran and watching the men
go through their prayers. Many of the
yelled figures are those of small girls.
They take the veil at eleven or twelve.
and the wells are kept on after mar
riage until death.
And then the houses, All of the Mo-
hammedans have homes so latticed that
the women cannot be seen from the
streets. In some cases the windows are
built out over the sidewalks, hanging out
like boxes of wooden network. This is SO
i'll the new apartment houses which are
TOW going up. and also in the huts of the
poor, although the latter seldom have
windows except at the back The ordi-
nary lattice is made of c2nelike rushes br
sticks, and preparing them is special
trade followed by many The PUSHES are
brought in 10 Damascus already trimmed
on the backs OF donkeys. win CHI as they
go ill the streets with their loads
II behooyes the MolIammeian woman
10 be strict in her conduct. The husband
here has most of the rights. and he can di-
vorce his wife, or wives, whenever ne will
He sometimes does so without thinking,
and that to his sorrow. / heard of such
a case yesterday. According TO the laws
of Damascus if man wishes to get rid
OF his wife he has only to say. - divorce
YOU. | divorce you. | divorce you 9ni
the woman must leave. After she =
t7ne. however. she cannot come
wife until after she has been ma.
to some one else. To get around this, an
angry husband. relenting and longing for
the dear departed, arranges to marry her
10 4 friend II 6e"v'sh, or t. some half
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nary eight-story building. the whole thln@
made OF solid steel seven feet thick, SucF
a vast structure is by no means easy To-
picture to the minds eye. Yet Uncle San
intends TO build not only one of these
gates but forty-six, each almost Identical
in structure. width and height, for tnf
Jocks on the Panama canal. The first
shipment of steel to so into the building
Of these gates left large steel plant in
pittsburg via Baltimore for the canal
las. week. To build these gigantic gates
will REQUIRE more than 100, 100000 pounds
t.f steel or in round numbers about 1880
tons To carry this steel from Baltimore
10 the isthmus will require thirteen or the
largest ocean freight steamers.
If this 1300O,OeD odd pounds Of steel
were used In the building of a railroad
track, it would make a track more than
,sn miles long. A railroad track extend
ing quarter the distance across the
continent. Or TO put it another way, sup
pose this steel were used in the construc-
ton of immG nse buildings like the forty
story Singer building in New York, it
would be sufficient to build at least ten
such buildings of this size.
x
In addition to the vast amount of steel
required. Uncle Sam will use more than
100000 barrels of cement for the foun-
cations on which to set these Titanic
gates. This amount Of cement will in
turn make about the same number of
cubic yards OF concrete. Then there will
be the lumber and odds and ends.
lumber alone amounting to more than
$4,000 board feet
The government is now building forty
six gates In the Panama canal, to range
from Al feet inches to So feet high.
Each of the forty-siX gatts will have
two leaves, or ninety-two in all. Forty
at the Gatun locks, twenty-four at the
Pedro Miguel locks and twenty-eight at
the Mirafores locks All of these gates
will be opened and closed by electric en-
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risen, and the man who abuses his wives
is not considered respectable. No man
dares address a strange woman on the
streets Of any Turkish city, and In the
best regulated houses the husband does
not enter the womans apartments when
he knows he is not wanted, although he
has the legal right to go there at any
time.
The Mohammedan wife has the entire
right and control OF her own property
and if she brings the money into the fam
lily she does not hesitate to say So She
has about as much power In the courts as
our women have. She can sue and be
sued and can even enter suit against
her husband in regard to her own prop
erty. She can make will and leave her
property as she pleases and she can
force him to pay the dowry agreed upon.
When she marries he has TO buy the
wedding gown and il he divorces her she
gets back her trousseau.
1t is said that women are still bought
and sold in the Turkish possessions Not
long ago there was a regular trace IN
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will be used also to operate all gates
and valves the power being generated by
water turbines from the waters Of Gatun
lake.
The time required to pass vessel
through all the locks is estimated at
about three hours, one hour and half
ID the three locks at Gatun and about the
same time in the three locks on the Pa
cific side. The time of passage of yes
sci through the entire canal will take
from ten to twelve hours. according to
the size of the ship and the rate of speed
at which 1t travel.
It was originally estimated that a total
of 1G3. 795.Gn cubic yards of earth should
be removed from the canal, but later, on
account Of scno0 shangeS this WAS in
creased to 174.668. 594 cubic yards OF
cubic yards have already been removed,
nearly the entire amount called for in
the original plan.
The entire length of the canal from
deep water in the Atlantic to deep water
in the Pacific is about fifty miles. Its
length on land IS about forty miles In
passing through it from the Atlantic to
the Pacific vessel will enter through Ii
mon bay. follow this for about seven
miles to Gatun. where 1t will enter a
series of three locks and he lifted eighty
five feet to the level OF Gatnn lake.
It will sail at full ocean speed through
this lake. for a distance Of about twenty
four miles, to Bias Obispo. where Ii viii
enter the CuieDrd cut 1t VIII sail LHTOUSH
the cut, a distance OF about nine miles, to
Pedro Miguel. There 1t will enter a lock
and be lowered thirty feet to small
lake, f1fty-four feet above sea level, and
will sail through this lake for about one
and one-half miles to Miraflores.
=
At Mirafiores It will enter two locks
and be lowered to sea level, passing out
into the Pacific ocean through a channe
about eight and one-half miles in length
The depth Of the approach channel on
the Atlantic side, where the rise Of the
tide does not exceed one and one-half
feet, will be forty-one feet at mean tide,
and on the Pacific side. where the tide
rises twenty-three feet. the depth will be
forty-five feet at mean tide.
While the date given out by the canal
officials on which the Panama canal VIII
be completed is January l, 1915, it is con-
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DAMASCUS.

}, Ye, bright
eyed. fair skinned
girls of America,
Drop for the mo-
ment your hobble-
skirts and peach
basket hats and
take a look at your
sisters OF Damas-
Gus in faraway
Syria. How would
YOU like to ex-
change yOUr life for
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LATE OF such cnor-
NOUS dimension
that the ordinary
man standing be-
side it would an
pear about the siz
of an ant in com
parison with tn
ordinary & a r d c n
gate, Or a gat.
as high and more
than t " j c e tn
width of the ordi
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their cost. Often the whole dowry is
not paid, 25 or 80 per cent being left
until after the wedding. This is not
demanded. except in case Of divorce, and
it is considered a premium that will
insure good treatment on the part Of
the husband.
The bride seldom sees the groom be-
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GlGAN11GG}
hNAMA CANAL

ENORMOUS Quantities of
- Steel Required to Build
These Gates = Forty six
Gates of Solid Steel Sever
Feet Thick, From AZ to 81
Feet High = Gate Founda-
tions-Side Walls of Locks
From IS to 60 Feet Wide at
Bottom - Route of Vessels
Passing Through Canal.
1CnpYriSht 1911. by William L. AltdorT,r,
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groom tells her husband the result of
her investigations, and if he is pleased
negotiations are begun with the parents
of the bride. If agreeable the dowry is
fixed and the betrothal is made. Neither
the marriage nor the betrothal can be
consummated without the consent of the
girl. This consent is co+ten in connection
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TOW Mohammedan Wives
! i Are Chosen The lew
esses and Their Dowries-
How They Marry In Syria
A Divorce Which Did Not
Work-Women's Rights in
Turkey = Slave Girls and
Slave Weddings = Queer
Brides and Bridegrooms. of
the Levant.
Copyright. 1910. by Frank q. Carpenter.)
pecial Correspondence of The star.
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theirs? How would YOU like TO spend
your days without showing your face TO
the light of the SUM- How would you Ike
to go about in great bag of black silk
which is tied in at the waist SO that il
covers your form from the head to the
feet. except for a short. thick veil of black
which enables you TO feel Your way along
the street? How would you like - be
penned M in the hack OF your house, or
10 have your front windows 50 latticed
that you could sec out only through holes
big around as a lead pencil? Aye,
more. how would you like IL never talk
TO any man but one OF your own family,
and worse. never 10 have any other man
or boy talk TO or see you?
This is the condition of the girls OF
this fanatical city of Damascus. 1t is The
fate of millions OF other women in Tur-
key and OF the female Mohammedans
throughout the whole world
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CUcARAcHA SLIDE Ger IS 1910

be filled and emptied by means of cut
verts in the floors big enough to drive
team through eighteen feet in diameter,
the water flowing in and out by gravity.
In order to save water and time, there
are intermediate locks provided for, SO
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Within the past thirty years ! have
visited every Moslem country on earth,
and have worn out my eyes trying to
see through the wells which hide the fail
sex In Morocco their faces are covered
with cotton. and they peep out through
4 crack as big Your finger. made by
pulling the cloth slightly apart IN front
of the face. In kairouan the girls cover
their faces with black crepe so thick that
you cannot tell whether they are negroes
or whites: and in Tunis they are SO
shrouded that they have to lift up their
cloaks a few feet IN order to pick their
way through the streets. IN Zanzibar
the girls wear bags which cover them to
the feet, and their only view of the
world is through peephoies as big
JO-cent piece, which are hedged across
with lace netting, SO that a man cannot
see in. In Egypt the headdress comes
down to the eyebrows. and veil ex-
tends from there 10 the knees, with the
exception OF a crack for the eyes, the
crack being kept open by gold or brass
spool which rests on the bridge OF the
nose. in Constantinopie tire fashionable
Turks are doing away with the veil or
using thin white gauze through which
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that when a small vessel comes along the
locks can be divided into chambers 400
aJid 900 feet long. As % per cent OF
the vessels navig eating the high seas are
less than COO feet long. it will be appar-
ent that the chambers will be used the
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crazy man, who for sum will go
through the ceremony of a wedding and
then Immediately divorce the woman, who
can then be married again to her old
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greater part of the time, ard not the en-
tire length of the lock.
All vessels will be lowed through th6
canal by means of electricity. probably
by the use of electric engines running on
tracks alongside the canal. Electricity
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Copyright. 1911 by William L. Altdorfer,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-24

her junior year at Wellesley college
this year, will arrive home Sunday, to
be with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
o. Garvey, this summer. She stopped
on her way home to visit relatives in
Ohio.
Mr.. H R. Ennis of Des Moines, Ia,
will return home Sunday. after visit
to Mr.. r. F. Doran in Topeka.
Sunday, July 2, to make. their home n
Guymon. Okla, where Mr.. Norton will
be engaged in the banking business. They
viii sell their home at 1918 West Eighth
avenue.
Spanish lessons. Mrs. E. J. Callahan. 2l1
East Eighth street.
Kan, to be the guest of Miss Lynne Cod
ding.
MI. E. L. Copeland has returned from a
Mr.. W. r. Guild of Sabetha. Kan, is
the guest of his brother. Mr.. George
Mr.. c. w Kouns and Mr. J. R. Koontz
have gone to Amarillo, Tex, to attend q
convention.
family left Friday to spend a month at
Pine Lake. Cheteck, Wisconsin.
DR.. and Mrs. W. D. storrs have return
ed from an extended trip east.
Mrs. J. W. Stout has returned from
visit to her daughter in Maryland.
Miss Helen Mitchell is the guest of Miss
Mrs. r. J. Kennedy and her children
have returned from Wichita, where they
were guests OF MI ana Mrs. e. A. Richie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Aigner were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Richie the first of the
: week.
Miss Eleanora A. Caldwell will leave
| Wednesday, June Is. for an extended visit
to her sister, Mrs. H. G. Gilman, of Santa
Monica, Cal
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Ralph BARLEY of Sheri-
dan Lake, Col, are the parents of a son,
| born June 10. They have named him
John Gordon. Mrs BARLEY. before her
marriage, was Miss Ethel Cloud of TO
peka.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Sayre of Bonneville
No. are guests of Mr.. and Mrs P. w
Mrs. Augusta Weston of Peoria. Ill. ar
rived today to visit the L. NJ Penwell
family. Mrs. renwen is spending a few
weeks in Excelsior Springs. and her sis
! ter, Mrs. Neston, will leave IN a few DAYS
to visit her there The Penwel family
have moved from Monroe street to g04
| West street.
The sketch which appears today Of
fers good suggestion for making a
smart coat suit of linen. The original
model was made of violet linen with
motifs of English eyelet embroidery
trimming skirt and coat. The short,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-24

into which the brim rolls at the back
producing a softened outline. The hat
is olive green hemp and around the
crown is folded a ribbon of olive satin.
terminating near the back in several
outstanding loops beyond large clus-
ter of moss rose buds.
A young man who recently married
and went to California, sent his we'd
ding announcement to a Topeka man
and received the following letter in
Acknowledgements:
My friend, your sky seems to have
fair setting. I have never had the
honor to meet your wife, but an un-
failing judge of men and things, has
told me she is a hand-picked pippin,
with the flush of the dawn on her face
and the vanished light of the golden
glory of the worlds young days in
her eyes. So you ought to be proud
and happy and thankful that your lot
has been cast in such pleasant places.
You have a grand old dad, a col
lege education, a sheepskin, a small
waistline, and a large hatband. You
are on the border line between youth
and manhood. You are living in the
land Of flowers and sunshine, where
the western limits of the new world
bids good day to the eastern edge of
old Asia, the mother of the nations.
You are married to a charming girl.
What more could man ask for
here below? One thing only to leaven
the lump-common sense, and thanks
be, you have that wish you the
best of everything, May the gods
smile and the graces be kind. When
God closed the gates of the garden
and placed the curse of toll and sor-
row on the world, He was afterwards
moved to pity, and He resolved that
a glimmer of Paradise should fall
across the shadow Of mems lives for
a moment; so He staked out in a GER
tain spot In the pilgrimage road of
this vale of tears place called Hon
eymoon Trail It is a beautiful place
where the falling waters play a silver
tune, and the tints of earth are paint
ed by the angels, and the moments
are measured out by the Goddess of
Gladness. Mans foot is guided there
by a miracle, and his pulses beat like
the sunshine on the golden spires of
the temples of the New Jerusalem.
so whatever may come in after
years, travail or trouble, veal or woe,
you can say you have had one perfect
day and seen the worlds desire face
to face. The thought of 1t oughe
carry you through the storm and
blackness bravely to a safe harbor.
THE Gallilean spoke His greatest