The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-04-20
KENTUCKY GIRL :
| TELLS OF ARMENIA
CONTRASTS sPL END oRs OF
HAREM WITH MISERY OF
STARVING CHRISTIANS.
Driven To Seek Refuge In craveyards
And To Use Rats For Food Peo-
pie Have Hope Only In Gen.
crosby Of America.

Surrounded by pictures of starvin
women and children and also thos
Of riches and luxury, Miss Constanc
Sheltman, daughter Of Mr.. and Mr.
Wade Sheltman, Louisville, is Twin
in the midst of the scene of the trai
edy Of Armenia.
Miss Sheltman is well known to Ker
tuckians. She was formerly connecte
with the Pine Mountain Settlement i
Harlan County. During the period 70
lowing the armistice she served as re
construction aid in Germany, Franc
and Belgium.
Miss Sheltman is supervisor of or
Of the industries established by III
| Near East Relief at S;amboUl, nea
| C"nstantinOple. In letters to her pm
ents and friends she tells the s. orr c
the irmenians, who are homeless ~
dying and awaiting crumbs which IN,
| from Americas hands she also de
scribes Il visit IN Turkish haroiu, I'll,
magnificence of which formed sirih
ing contrast TO the suffering al aDou
her, she said.
Writing vi the general condition
Miss Sheltman says the atmospler,
OF COnstantinOple is one of constan
tt:rttol Il md hn,,aa
The Turks Try to run over the Ar
menians and the Armenans Try /,
run over the Turks" she said. And
all Of them try TO run over the Jews
who in turn retaliate."
Eats Dogs and Cats.
She says that the former verdant
fields of the Armeniaps are withou.
vegetation or life Of any sort. There
are no houses for the refugees, nc
crops, no living animals-which might
he used as food. All the cats, dogs
and horses have been killed and eaten.
she writes. She tells of one instance
when she saw Il group OF persons
carefully guarding live rats, which
were 10 be killed and used lis food
when hunger could not be satisfied
otherwise.
describing the homes of some Ar.
menians WHO have ceased wandering
back and forth from place 10 place,
She says; ~
Il followed the old sea walls for
several miles and saw persons living
in ruins--in dugolts, even in grave
yards, utilizing tOn,bstOnes for part of
their Impoverished novels. The filth
and Indebtedness were uDspeakable.
Even the beach was nothing but slime
and tin cans and refuse of every kind.
and the waves were black with the
Nth and debris that washed out with
one wave and back with the next"
A visit Ia one of the places of the
Sultan Of Turkey affords a contrast.
iDg scene:
Yesterday we went 10 the Serag-
lilo. one Of the Sultan's places, 60
Ing through the different kiosks (sum-
mer houses), the library, the harem,
etc. II was all beautiful. Such ex-
quislte rich colorins, have never seen
before. We Were ushered into a grea.
reception room, where we sat around
very stiff and formally, while the al
ienjants passed cigarettes and Turk
ish coffee, served in gold cups, each
Of which was set with thirty large
diamonds. Speaking Of diamonds,
though Constantinople is at present
The most expensive place in the world
% live, jewelry is one of the things one
IAN get for song. Much Of il has
,een brought in by Russian refugees"
Where the Money Goes.
Miss Sheltmap is experimenting
he buying of materials for "fabrica,"
IN industry which furnishes employ
nent for several hundred Armenian
women and girls. Near the .fahr,cao |