The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-09-12

bazaars, not to buy things. but to see
to be seen many interesting phases
of it. When you really wish to buy
anything you will find the peddleF.
that supreme nuisance OF America,
your best friend He will bring to
your door anything that you wish to
see and give you all the time that
you desire in which to examine it.
You must needs be a haggler TO deal
with any merchant i'll Persia, but usu-
ally YOU can make better bargain
in the quiet OF your own home than
you could make i'll the bazaar.
In one respect the theory OF the Per
sian merchant and peddler in regard
to buying and selling is the opposite
OF ours. Instead Of giving you a re-
duction if you buy a large quantity OF
some one thing, he will almost in,
variably charge you more in proper
ton than if you buy sR III guam
uty. The reason is, prob bly,, the
lack of small change III p 'sia and
the fact that it can always be disposed
of at profit. / am told that the
same thing is true in Constantinopie,
where, for example, a bridge ticket
emitting you to cross q bridge ten
times costs more than if you paid a
single fare ten times. This scarcity
Of small change and the consequent
value placed on it makes the money
changer an important person in the
east today. as he was in the time
when Christ found is necessary to
drive him from the temple.
Foreign Goods in Evidence.
When he carries out his own ideas
exclusively the Persian is always ar
tistic. The bazaars in which oriental
goods are displayed in oriental fashion
are always pleasing. But there is d
growing demand for European arti-
cles; everywhere in the baZaars one
is confronted by cheap broadcloth.
cheap cotton goods, shoddy cutlery
and glassware and tawdry foreign
articles OF ali kinds. These things.
displayed with the native goods, cheap
en- the latter without themselves
gaining dignity by the contact
y
hazaars, even in the capital OF $50, 900
people, are never open at night. Dur
ing the month when the Persians fast
every day from sunrise to sunset it is
customary to do some marketing.
some business and much visiting at
night Then the food baZaarS, tea
shops and 50 forth are open; pedes-
Of nil cd
paper and carriages give an appear
ance of life and gayety to the streets
which is quite unknown at other
times. To one who has known the
quiet OF an oriental city the noise OF ali
American city is almost uncomfortable.
Many occupations which in west
ern lands are carried on in shops are
in Persia carried On in the open air.
This is due partly to the poverty OF
the people. partly to the warmness
OF the climate, partly 10 the fact that
the Persian is pre-eminently a social
being. and-with the exception OF his
domestic life, which is lived in great
secIusion behind high walls-he likes
to be with his fellowmen.
The only things that are free in Per
STA are air and sunshine. Water, not
only in the cities. but everywhere, is
one of tie most expensive commodi'
ties and one of the most difficult to
obtain. The entire water supply OF
Teheran comes from the snow on
the mountains north of the city. 1t
is brought for a distance of many
miles in underground water courses.
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roared angrily. Selling the unfOrtu-
nate Zeph by the collar and the seat
Of the trousers, he escorted him for
chilly to the alley. Get out there in
the air and brace up was his parting
advice. " kin put me out if Y like,
ut'-Zeph Strengthened UP with
drunken dignity-''ye can't make me