The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-28
WAR REVIVED THE
- HAREM IN EUROPE
.nmrD STRIFE HAS RESULT
AE Hn IN THE SLAVE MARKET
- prTNG FLOODED AGAIN.
nrv FROM SOLDIERY CHEAP

co,+;ves Often Go for $3.50 or
Pretty ~ WI JThen Put Up for Sale Where
SZVo Take Place. Twentieth
CENTURY Century Slave Market
w. has resulted in the revival 81
Wal in Turkey Armed strife is
5'l' i.5iog girls. too terrified to pro-
iaill', anainst harem life, who can be
test as as'i from the soldiery, who hold
bought s,a , for as low as Sl.5O and
them I'' The man who couldn't afford
I b,,r harem ten years ago can
a afford W ,i;oor has become known, as
ASA M l;ntb century slave market
n the tWe,ul'l6ofds are the auction block
y The D .ai ,romen are brought for bar
Il to when NUr the victorious soldlery
\ terng a. ntrrS. devastated towns along
The cou L. 81 the Black Sea and down
the ' +be provinces OF Angora are re, De- DC,
ng rsed by slave dealers 10 '"iiS :"
tn'I 1,o s, Filled to Overlooking.
Ia ~oor1ation of the harems has
Inc p oIPled in the last few years
been s"t che generalization of the Ar
t1ro ,;ae Girls as a result OF the lo S
lli \ tba y;Iages by the Turkish soldlery,
q 9.L J1' ,,,bo would never have gone lnI mo
llrLI WINS mn0 had the family been held
inc ne. 4@ have drifted into them from e the
lntacl, N g;str;rts around the Black sea,
riiilsuc o u+97 Batum and Tribizond.
i 1( '7 Ewes were ruined, their resist
snce broken. 80. Aoo+o1;a have
80, ] ' tie;r h2Tems to overlooking with
l,I!1u , -.a,,na women, whom they were
t1 ne; 0I Inv from the soldiery tor a
4 ion3f VI OF coins. Thus the war mas ma
aSab,sd the country Turk to start inc
{ l'b3'l of harem life all over again Just
lI"0,' fine when decreasing atiuehce
a.d d orblic opinion were mitigating IT,
'''- Girls Struggled Into Country.
W.. ~ +be women in the harems
,re Young. A large part OF them a; are
on wooded into the country tor deiiD-
S. ra.5 sseIling The Turkish girls who
s ,.ar~,. into the harems do so usually
l.:1 their parents consent, although
G"M that they will share their
h,y with other wives. Other ha-
ran, inmates for the most part are not
On On the signing of the armlst1ce all
s or;.oners of war were supposed to De
B.nded over to the allied governments.
Had this agreement been carried, OUT
fa;thfullv many girls would have Deeh
saved from harem life Turks, now
aver have found ways to conceal thelr
traaicLing in girls. The famous BRIDE
scbooI At Samzoun is a significant eX-
annie OF their cleverness at conceal-
~ Girls School Mere Blind.
Tbis "schoo" was housed in an old
gray convent, on the edge OF the toW1
Of Samzoun. on the Black Sea. 1t hau
been a home for beautiful nuns IN tne
Dast for the women of Samzoun are
al yerv beautiful. After the. Turks
took nossession of the own the CON
vent was used for those lovely Geor-
g2n and Armenian girls whom the
0fcers fancied we're worth more than
The iris were gathered at the old
convent where the officers guarding
them said they were to be put IN
school, The girls believed this until
thew noticed they were being brought
down in groups from their sleeping
quarters. where they were kept guard,
I'd all day. to stand before officers ana
-.rchants. rich farmers and wealthy
a,has. Then one, perhaps two, OF the
\. iris would be taken from the convent
he next morning.
4are1nites Do Farm Work.
The province Of Anatolia has long
cen the stronghold for the tanatical'
4 d-hshioned Turk. Removed from
ntact with Europe, the Turk here
as carried on his old national and
,.gious habits. free from progress
Il Ind change. He has carried on his
ucms in villages, farms and large
owns.
His harems have expanded with the
rice Of women dropping as 1t has De-
ausc Of the war. Within the last year
000) women from the war districts
ave flowed into country harems, 1or
: her, IS always work for women 10
On a farm, and farms near Siwas'
-gnt Erzerum are now worked by
& Tcmtcs
Sometimes a girls entry into the
arem is accompanied by the old-tash-
ned details OF a Turkish wedding,
y it, for the most part, she is taken to
new home like a new domestic ami
al bought at market. For she IS,
Ike them, meant for work.