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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15

m HE Rumanian poetess, Madame
Varesco. has made a stirring
appeal before special commit
tee of the League of Nations for
interference In the terrible condi-
tons under which young girls are
obtained for, and live in, the harems
Of the rich of Constantinople and
other cities of the East.
From the cradle the female child
of Turkey Is brought up with but
one destiny--to become the wife Of a
rich man. Though her parents may
be kind and her early life a happy
one. there is but one thought in their
minds: What price will she fetch
in the markets Of Stamboul or Con-
stantinople?" ....
But, fatalists as they are, the
young Circassian or Persian girls
endeayor to enjoy their freedom
while II lasts. In the sylvan sim
plicity of their mountain homes they
are allowed to wander abroad, to tend
the flocks of goats and work upon
the land. Thus nature has her chance
to strengthen their limbs and beau
tify their features In the cleanliness
of the open air.
THE SLAVE MARKET.
But Meliha one day returns from
the fields or the hills and sees In the
village a group Of strangers. They
stand about her fathers door. A cold
fear seizes her. for she knows why
they have come. ........
They are Armenian merchants
end they are on a visit to the VII
lagos of the hills in search Of beau
,jtul girls for the market. Before
them are dragged all the marriage
able females; the best are chosen:
their prices haggled over and paid. /.
Meliha and half-a-dozen others
are dressed in the best Of their poor
clothes and dragged away to the
markets of STEAMBOAT.
There begins the first step in the
degradation of the childwoman.
There in the slave market. she is
put UP for sale as we in England
sell cattle at a country fair.
Before the searching eyes OF
speculators in women or the ennis
saries of rich pashas looking for
pretty wives. the innocent gil,
recently torn from the purity OF q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15

Perhaps, II I had been a man OF
any spirit. should have shouted.
'Scoundrel, how dare you accost the
man whose reputation has been
blasted. and whose income has been
cut Off by your accursed depart
mentT Being what I am, was
completely melted, and entered abb
jectiy into q friendly chat, as II
:Blanco Posnet' and Mrs. Warren's
Profession had run a thousand
nights fully licensed. He took the
ban off Blanco for me; but there is
no lord chamberlain strong enough
to license Mrs. Warren Sir Douglas
Dawson would fall on his sword II
such q thing were suggested.
TT Is q silly business. this theatri-
cal censorship, but 1t is not the
lord. chamberlain's fault. He 70
offered a position Of such. conspicu-
Gus honor that no peer could re-
fuse It without insulting the FSin6.
Yet he cannot accept It without
being saddled with an impossible
and irrelevant function in tho
theaters. And do not forget that
this function is a godsend to the
managers. But for the lord cham
berlain they would be responsible
not only morally but, jegally-and
that very heavily, too-for the plays
they. produce. They would DO sub
Jet to police interference, to prose-
buttons for obsceriity, sedition. bias
phemy. and all sorts Of :terrors. As
1t is. they send copy Of the play
to the lord chamberlain with fee
Of two guineas, which is virtually
an insurance premium; and In
ninety.nine cases out of a hundred.
provided they keep to the beaten
tracks. they receive In return Ger.
tificate that the play contains moth
ing Objectionable. After that It
would be high treason to question
the absolute correctness Of the en-
tertainment. ISL.
1T have been censored three times,
but then I might have been burnt
alive for my other plays IL the lord
chamberlain had not guaranteed
them. Besides, have all Europe
and America to draw on without any
possibility of suppression; for the
lord chamberlain's power stops at
the sea; the worst he can do to me
is to say, You can go to Germany
or to Jericho; you shan't play here
THE real evil. lies not in the pro-
hibition of plays actually written,
like Tolstoy's Dominion Of Dark
ness. but In the loss Of the plays
that would not be written because
they would not be licenseN And
these are never improper plays, be.
cause I defy any sane playwright
10 pro ,uce a play more improper
than several that have been licensed
without demur. 4
"The first thing lord chamber
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15

mothers arms. stands on a rsised
dais, while around her the bargain
ers discuss her points" gestiulate.
argue with one another and quarrel
over her price. ~
Her beauty. hair. skin and teeth
are openly discussed before her.
while. her poor finery put aside. s'e
is forced, to, display the charms of
her figure.
MAKING BEAUTY"
When purchased, the girl must 30
through q term of preparation be-
fore the wedding. Surrounding the
slave markets are women who make
a profession Of the preparing Of girls
for marriage.
To them is intrusted the task OF
making beautiful fingernails. STAIN
ing them red. darkening the eyes
with kohl, softening the skin with
innumerable scented baths. and OF
teaching their charges 70 dance
and sing.
Thus Meliha. who a few weeks
ago was the carefree girl OF the
mountains, finds herself hidden be-
meath the folds of the charsaf, or
veil, and condemned to lifelong i'm
prisonment within the harem to an
swer every call and within Of her
master, the pasha.
The meaning of the word harem
is forbidden" and truly 1t Is a
place Of secrecy. Though the outer
walls may be drab and dirty, within
all is splendor-and mystery.
Here are magnificent rooms. the
walls covered with costly hangings;
here are floors Of polished marble.
divans. cushions. and furniture Of
sandalwood inlaid with ivory; here
are shady courts, baths and foun-
tains splashing softly in pools Of
goldfish. But, here, too. are rooms
darkened with lattices, little doors.
heavily hung with curtains, that
lead to secret places.
SENSUOUS DANCES.
Though Turkey has assimilated
many Of our ideas, abolishing. for
instance. the flute and tomtom in
favor of the grand piano and the
gramophone. the idea behind re-
mains the same; their women re-
main the slaves of their whims and
passions.
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lain has to learn is not TO be strait
laced. He can suppress an Ibsen
or a Tolstoy without the least risk.
but let him once interfere with the
aphrodisiac side Of the theater and
the outcry will be enough to shake
the throne itself. Please do not con.
clude that I object to this aphro-
disiac side. One Of the most impor-
tant functions Of the theater 10 the
stimulation and education Of sexual
sentiment; am only explaining
how the institution worked. have
no idea who is to succeed Lord
sandhurst. He may be q conscien.
tous director to the theater in toto
II he is, and II he has Lord Spen-
GERS contempt for public opinion,
we may look forward to some fun"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
Bv LOVAT FRASER
/ $500 Article " the London SUNDAY rIct0TdJ
els Money Becoming Valueless2 Will Disappear From Usa Shall We
Live See the World without Penny? Collapse Money Values
Has Led to Partial Collapse of international Credits Cancellation of
Foreign War Debts win Not Help the Present Economic Position
(Distinguished British Writer in an
Article in the London Sunday Pict0riaI)

effect Of cancellation before we nd.
vocate Il.
In any case, our leading bankers
and public men ought to stop talk.
ing drivel and get down to cold
horse-sense on this vital matter.
What they are saying Is: I'VE will
cancel what Europe owes us. but,
Of course. we will pay what we
owe the United States" Was ever
such nonsense heard from business
men? =
As hardly any country Ii paying
even the interest on its foreign
debts. cancellation viii not help
the present economic position; and,
In any case, the only possible
remedy Is cancellation all round.
with America joining In.
A leading American financial
journalist, Clarence w. Barron.
told me that. in his opinion. Great
Britain had been economically hit
harder than any other belligerent.
not excepting Germany. I believe
more money. Ia owed to US abroad
today than to any other nation.
France and Italy alone owe us one
fifth more than we owe the United
States.
TELLS BRITAIN TO PAY.
We are asked to cancel all the
money owing to US, but to dis
charge a debt to the United States,
which In interest alone costs US
ESQ. 600. 900 year. There Is neither
sound business nor common sense
In these proposals. I quite agree
that we should never ask the United
States to forego our debt, but I'M
less Americans voluntarily give .
lead I'm the matter Of cancellation
all round we had better be silent
and 60 on paying up.
Meanwhile the only way to save
ourselves IL to cut down govern
ment expenditure and to reduce
taxation, not in dribbles. but with
a sweep. The alternative Ii to
print paper money until we have to
pack a suit case with notes in order
to buy q cheap lunch.
We shall be lucky IL our pound
does not go the way Of the mark
and the rouble. anyway. But 1
hope we shall not reach the state
of having to produce a sack OF
cowrie shells in exchange for q roll
and a pat OF butter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15

4 N ingenious method Of finding
~ the height of the clouds for
the information of NIGHTLY
ing airmen is being tried at the
London Air Station, Croydon, says
the London Daily Times.
When the scientific illumination
of the London-Paris "airway." now
in progress. is completed, pilots OF
night air expresses will, naturally,
fly beneath the clouds. in order to
keep the guiding lights in view.
and it is of vital importance that
they should know exactly what
space they have between the base
Of the clouds and the earth in which
to manoeuvre.
To this end an interesting appa-
ratus has been devised. consisting
Of q powerful search light, which
throws a vertical beam on to the
clouds, and a specially designed the
odolite. through which to observe
the beam.
The searchlight and theodolite
are set up a measured distance
apart. The theodolite consists of
q telescope. mounted in such way
that the angle at which 1t Ia point
ing can be read with minute &C
curacy on a special scale. 1t is set
30 that the point where the search
light beam enters the clouds can be
seen in the center of the telescope.
The angle is then read on the scule,
and the distance between search
light and theodolite being known,
1t Is q simple mathematical problem
to calculate the height of the clouds.
The whole apparatus Is seif-con-
tanned and portable. A twin cylinder
petrol engine with electrical dyna.
mo, switchboard, petrol and oil
tanks attached, provides the cleo
tricity for the searchlight and the
whole apparatus can be carried by
two men. The sarchlight, which
throws q beam of 100000 candle
power, Is mounted on 4 folding tri-
rod, and the theodolito Is similarly
mounted.
It is proposed to install num-
Der Of these sets at the various wire
less stations along the "airway." 90
that a pilot of night air express
can be kept informed by wireless
Of the height of the clouds on each
portion Of his route.
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~ ERNARD SHAW, consulted -
to tho effect on the theater
Of the death Of Lord Sand
hurst and the succession Of q new
lord chamberlain, declares that 1t
is impossible to take any account
of the lord chamberlain's function
"a censor Of the drama In filling
his post
"The appointment" said Mr..
Shaw, "is in the first place q polit'
icaI ono. After that, nothing can
be considered except the fitness of
the postulant, to attend on the
Kings person and regulate his
household. He must be q peer ana
a privy councillor; and he has no
end of things to do. from arranging
the coronation to appointing tho
naIace bakers and grocers- His; con-
nection with the theater II pure
superstition from tho days when
Henry VIII, had a master Of the
revels to keep performing bears and
jugglers in order.
"It is mathematically most un-
likely that aristocratic qualifications
and personal aptitude for the duties
of lord chamberlain should be COM
bined with any special knowledge OF
the drama. Lord Spencer. who held
the post from 1906 to 1917 Il
famous for two utterances: 7 am
not an agricultural laborer' and
who Is Tolstoy7' He was every inch
a great lord, and very properly re-
earded theatrical people as riff-raff,
as any lord worth his peerage
should; else, where IL tho point OF
beinr a lord7 When an outcry arose
because he had licensed a play call
ed Dear Old Charlie, he made tho
author of the play his official read
ara gesture Of aristocratio con-
tempt for public opinion which de-
lighted everybody. In fact, the only
notice he took of the theater was
to wipe his boots on It, and this. I
think, was the right attitude for .
lord chamberlain. Besides, 1t was
so amusing; one felt that Anatole
France would have loved him
for II.
Lord sandhurst did not amuse
us in that fashion. Ono evening.
at Sir Philip sassoon's, I was APP
preached by an Misunderstanding.
elderly gentleman, evidently Of high
social position. He looked at me
with benevolent interest for a while,
and then gently took my hand and
began shaking 1t. When this soft
handshake had gone on for about
ten seconds I felt that he was one
OF my dearest friends, and that I
could have died for him; but who
he was I could not. for the life Of
me remember. st last, when l was
d,sarmed to the verge ga affection
ate tears. he whispered, 4 am the
lord chamberlain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
Bv MADAME VARESC O.
Startling Revelations of the Methods Employed to Obtain Wives Tor
Wealthy Tks-The Life They Lead In Harems and Their Slavery
Extracts From Speech Delivered Before the League of Nations
Committee

Their ordinary life in the harsA
is one of laziness. spent In gossip
music and the chewing Of swest
meats. 2ut when the pasha wishes
It, then must his women bestir
themselves.
For him, when he wishes IL.
must the women adorn themselves.
or at his bidding lay aside their
finery. At the clap Of his hands
must they be ready to sing. to
play, to dance. For him they do
wise entertainments of the most
erotic kind in their private apart
ments.
In the mysterious depths Of the
harem jealousies and intrigues
breed quickly, and result at tfmes
in crimes of darkness. The day
- the. bowstring and the secret
punishment Is not past, and whs
is there to inquire when dis
carded favorite "goes q journey
the Oh SECRET
THE SECRET DOOR.
The only restraint placed upon
divorce is contained in the words
of Mahomet, 'the curse Of Allah
rest on him who capriciously repu-
dates his Wife," 1t can be imagined
to what extent this saying il 10
garded.
But the pashas do not always find
1t convenient to divorce a wife Of
whom they are tired, or who 10 re-
bellious against his will. Too many
secrets might thus be borne out into
the light of day. He does not d.
vorce-nor need he.
A rebellious slave or willful wife
can be dealt with in the privacy Of
the harem. One night the curtained
door opens and dark-skinned men
come forth. The offender passes
beyond the secret door and the rest
Is silence, SO far as concerns the
other members Of the harem.
But In that inner depth scenes Of
cruelty are taking place. There the
victim. stripped and bound, may be
undergoing the punishment Of the
lash, to come forth broken in spirit.
obedient to the pasha's will forever.
Or possibly the door. having shut
once, remains shut. and the waters
Of the Bosporus bear away the -.
cret.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
Child Servants
of HOngkOng Live
AS Actual Slaves

7 .IGHT Is thrown upon the prao-
tice of buying and selling chill.
dren, which obtains in the British
crown colony Of Hongkong. and
about which complaints have been
heard. by q case Of cruelty to a ten.
year-old domestic servant girl. re-
ported in the Hongkong Weekly
Press.
The child was a Chinese girl. who,
at the age Of five years, was sold to
a woman and became amui tsai, or
domestic servant. 1t was proved
that the little girl. whose cries were
often heard, was covered with burns.
scabs and sores. She stated that
she was:
Beaten with firewood.
Tied to the bedpost.
Burnt on the face. hands and legs
with live coal held in tongs:
Beaten with split bamboo.
Accused was said to have inflicted
these tortures because. as she al
legged. the child did not do her work.
Although the woman denied the
cruelty, the British magistrate con-
sidered the case proved and sen
fenced her to three months impris
onment.
Cases of ill-treatment of these
child servants, or Slaves" as some
Britiyh people do not hesitate to call
them, have frequently come before
the PUBLIC eye.
Some OF the tortures which have
been described in cases before the
magistrate are nothing short of ap-
palling, and British people who have
returned from Hongkong have
made protests at Whitehall.
Hongkong is a British crown col
ony. entirely under British rule.
with a British governor and q leg
hlative council.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
TINT Poisoning
Wiped Out by
''' Hero Scientists
THE secret of how TINT poisonins

TUE secret Of how TINT poisoning
was stamped out during the war
by q group Of scientists IL revealed
in the British Medical Journal.
Prof. Benjamin Moore, Of Oxford
University, writing in that periods.
cal, says:
II seem to remember that, along
with my colleagues. wyon and Web
ster, went down to q munition fac.
tory ina county somewhere in Eng.
land where girls were dying Of
INT poisoning. and that there We
studied the subject for several
weeks; that we rubbed the poisonous
substance into our skins and sui.
fered from the poisonous effects;
that we worked as operators in the
factory, and were assisted by many
willing helpers.
Finally we discovered that only
a certain percentage Of persons were
acutely susceptible to the poison.
and these were persons who readily
lei. It in through their skins. vs.
tracked out how susceptible persons
could be detected and sent on to
other work.
For weeks and months no action
was taken, and we were prevented
by the censorship frsm making our
discoveries known, and deaths kept
on occurring till there was almost .
stampede of labor. In one factory
alore illness due to INT was costing
over a thousand pounds a week,
"It was only when threatened 20
stump round the munition centefr
and explain to the workers upon
INT what was the root OF tho evil
Tint executive action WINS TAX q
E..nir two pr three WEI Her ~-bs
u-.-'n nc hi case Of faaL INT "a.
soning throughout the whols scur-
try"
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named Lib and Angie We're
very Thick.
Each Girl kept a Nightie at the
Other Girls House and, long after
they had retired the inmates would
hear smothered Giggles, inter-
spersed with Fragments Of what
He said TO Her and what She said
to Him.
The Period of their Adolescence
was about thirty years ago. when
Romance was still alive and Knight.
hood was in Flower around every
Dancing Academy west of Pitts.
burgh.
The two Chums had made a Pact.
They were to be Friends for ever
and ever and ever and neither was
to hold out anything from the
other.
Each carried in a Locket a Four.
Leaf Clover presented by One to
whom she had barred her Soul.
After experimenting the Graded
Schools with a full course of Mrs.
Southworth and learning to play
"The Battle Of Prague" on the
Melodeon, naught remained for
them in the way Of passionate
Diversion except to go ahead and
get Married.
They waited three years for the
Fairy Prince of their Dreams to
come Gathering down Main Street
in his Coach all White and Gold.
and then began to mistrust the
Schedule. So they effected the
usual Compromise, falling grace
fully into the awkward Embraces
of two cornfed Lizards named Otis
and Wilbur.
In tho Shake-off It befell that
Angie got Wilbur and Lib drew
Otis. The two Brides were some
what envied, as Wilbur was q
Good.L ooker with raven Pompadour
and large snappy Eyes, while Otis
was supposed to possess the Fac
uty Of coping the Mazume.
However, the purpose OF this
Fable is to indicate that each Gal
found out too late she had Dutched
her Book and backed into the wrong
Paddock.
Fate separated the Young Couples
and many a Full Moon Debated It.
self before Lib and Angle had
another chance to get away by
themselves and I'LL up on oolong
and cautiously exhibit their
Wounds.
Wilbur was Hustler who lacked
Terminal Facilities. He was full
of st. vitus Activity and was al
ways transferring a lot Of Papers
from one Pocket to another and
getting ready to interest Capital
in some Megatherian Enterprise
paying 20 per cent per Annum, but
somehow he never Arrived.
While negotiating for a Rubber
Plantation In Yucatan he would
hear about Two Million barrels OF
oil waiting to be tapped In Okla
homa, but before he could turn
on the Liquid Dollars he would
be lured away by the Prospect OF
developing some Monte Cristo
Proposition up in the Mesaba
Range.
In the meantime he wore Celluloid
Collars and owed for every round
Steak that he had carried home
during the preceding Five Years
Otis on the Other Hand played
nothing but C!nches. He was out
for the Pastry. II was not his
Fault II the Widows and Orphans
who invested on his Tips all wound
up as Department Store Employees
He double-crossed his Partners
and whip.sawed his Customers and
bluffed the Courts, and bulled his
way into the strongholds of Fl
nance.
While the U. 8. Grand jury
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Is Grandad of His Kids
And Wife's Stepfather

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan. IA
George e. Bider, forty-four. IL the
stepfather of his former wife. and Is
the grandfather Of six Of his own
children.
It's this way: He married his moth
erin.law. Mrs. Julia Davis. forty
eight. A few weeks ago he got n d.
vorce from Mrs. Eva Bider. the pres
ent Mrs. Bider's daughter and mother
Of Biders SIX children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
CLOUD-DODGING DEVICE
AIDS AIRMEN AT NIGHT

Illumination by Searchlights Provides METHOD
of Scientifically Measuring Height OF CLOUDS
With a Theodolite-Fliers, Thus ApPrised,
Avoid Them by Keeping Planes at Lower
Altitude.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
Bv BERNARD SHAWL
Famous British Dramatist)

Famous British DrdmaisD
1.-The Real Evil Lies Not i'm the Prohibition of Plays Already Written
Like Totos Dominion Darkness but i'm the Loss Plays That
Would Not Be Written He Says i'm Commenting ON Thear Censorship
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15

MORAL: Whrr Wealth aUoIks IN
at the Door, he Press Agent come,
IN through the Window.
tcopyrisht. 1874. by Bell syndicats.)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-31
LESS MEAT If
KIDNEYS BOTHER
+ AXE a Glass Of Salts If Your
Back Hurts or Bladder
Troubles You.

No man or woman who eats too
much meat can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally, says
a well-known authority. Big meat eat
ing may develop uric acid, which ex-
cites the kidneys; they become over
worked from the strain. get sluggish
and fail TO filter the waste and poisOns
from the blood; then we get sick,
rheumatism. headaches. liver trouble,
nervousness. dizziness, sleepiness and
urinary disorders often come from
sluggish kidneys. e
The moment YOU feel q dull ache
in the kidneys. or your back hurts. or
II the urine is cloudy, offensive, full
OF sediment, irregular of passage or
attended by a sensation of scalding
stop eating meat and get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from any pharma-
CY; take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast, and in few
days your kidneys may act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice. combined with
lithia. and has been used for genera
tions To flush and stimulate the kid
neys; also to neutralize the acids in
ui44le cu II lIp 4oNEer causes lrrlta-
tion, thus often ending bladder weak
ness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes delightful effervescent
li,hia water drink. which everyone
should take now and then 70 help keep
the kidneys clean and active and the
b!ood pure, thereby often avoiding seri-
Gus kidney complications.