Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-01 | Page 7 | Domestic Life in Turkey

DOMESTIC N tury 15 bedroom furn ture net loo cd upon as a s t A recent writer on tur ey sas bedsteads are not bood by the turks each room contains a large cupboard built into the wall in wh ch the bed ding Is piled during the day and at night the slaves come in when sum boned to mal e the beds on the floor other bedroom rean sites in the shape of dress ng tables and iobe a dispensed with as superfluous for every day ablution there is a mall wast ng room itha hole in the floor for the water to escape through and if the hanun would wash her hands and face only a slave bings the ewer and basin and pours tre acter over hei hands for special ablutions she will go e ther to her novate or to the baths ane does hei hair orias it done for her seated cross leg 1 in her corner of the divan and the old wain it wood chests and ers in her treasure room sut fice to store her gauzes and brocades her silks and embro denes