Show Superstition of the Turl O The superstition of the Turks is nowhere no-where so apparent as in their fear of the evil eye Jugs placed around the edge of the xoof or an old shoe filled with garlic and blue beets blue glass balls or rings are a sure guard against the illusion Whenevr a pretty child I is playing upon tho street h ° passersby i will say Oh what an ugly < diild for fear of inciting tho evil spirit against its beauty The peasant classes in Turkey are pi course the most superstitious super-stitious because they are the most ignorant ig-norant They have no education whatever what-ever and can neither read nor write Stsunbool is the only great city of whioh they know Paris is a term signifying sig-nifying the whole outside world An American missionary was once asked In what part of Paris is America I Yet it can bo said that they are generally gener-ally honest and always patient they earn from G to 8 cents a I day This will furnish them with ekmek and pilaff I and that is all they expect They eat meat only on feast days and then only I mutton The taxgatherer is their only grievance They look upon him as 9 necessary evil They have no idea of being ground down under the oppressors oppress-ors iron heel Yet they ore happy because be-cause they are contented and have no envy The poorer the more ignorant a Turk is the better he seems to be As ho gets money and power and becomes contaminated by western civilization he deteriorates Across Asia on a Bicycle Bi-cycle in Century |