Show WOMEN WEN IN TURKEY mistake to class them as toys of the harem under the law they have absolute control of their own property which all western women have not some extremely modern young women who mft 1116 take symptoms for the causes of womans comans independence should make a tour of 0 turkey suggests a bulletin from froin the ali washington headquarters of tile alie national lal geographic society there women smoke emoke have had property rights for centuries tint and divorce Is easy hut but in all respects want to be a turk tile the toys of the turkish harem barem were to to bo pitted pitied in fit ninny ways it is true but considerable pity for or them las has been misdirected for example tile the turkish women who now flow are to be 4 emancipated have had ri solute con coll arol of bleir own property tv toe for hundreds of 0 ears cars wh whereas eretta the german wives cried in vain for such emanel pation under the kaiser tile the bulletin quotes from a communication by mary mills patrick which gives a vivid picture of the condition of women before the world war lie as follows it is a well known fact that roman law regarded tile the tights lights of the indi vidual without consideration of sex a man or a woman was alike a citizen of tile roman world this met the requirements quire ments of mohammedan life where no woman ever necessarily sustained a lating la ting relation loil nith any man therefore during all the centuries or a turn edall history women lieve legall controller cont rollel their own awn they halve been free to buy sell ir or alienate it without consulting any male relative tills this has given them in dependence of thought and an 1011 vve in ill bus business itle afi airs that seams inconsistent with their life of e personal slavery eier Ei tr n 1 and there you see a cn sl iiii ily ho has N been n n e awl afy y wf lulled by tile the tall tal I 1 handsome pasha flolla 1111 who 1 0 lias has just ilas passed se you rn the st street the air is heavy with the odor of eastern per perfume filine and the black eunuch 1 ille ul door 0 t watt watch all who artinr and 16 v the beauly herself Is thickly pondered with ah all elaborate coiffure coll Ture erected by her lium erous maids jekels jew els halt half cover her arms onal n akl tie he wears vears a beautifully embroidered negligee there Is a languorous expression in iier her black eyes as she sits bits idly smoking a cigarette and sipping turkish coffee would you think to look at her that when aillen slie she draws her money from the bank that she roust must sign tier her own thre two ewles 0 of life have been wholly it at val variance liance with each other oilier but as years have gone by the thoughtful side lias has predominated among tile the more lilore intellectual mohammedan women until now they are ready to enter into the affairs of today with an understanding and vigor which idich the has never accredited to tt it has been on the social side that I 1 aloba women anonsen have suffered most under the oppression of the past part E especially from froin the frequency of divorce vorce A man jiin could legally liis bis wire wife at any minute the lie only condition being the payment of the dowry welch was vas upon her by the bu husband band at the lie time of tier marriage marrin Kf tn in I 1 the he last attempt to in keep tile sex in the role assigned to them by the life of the alie harem very strict laus liae haxe been made to present till all possible progress among them laws have been proclaimed over arid and over again forbidding mohammedan women to attend foreign schools lq in ill this emergency they engaged governesses ilant af 0 f these governesses were aliens and many of them were ere inefficient and I 1 biad ad moral guides guide to so large a 11 portion of the population beg beginning nning to think and and question the pox gm erneso system obtained so much influence after a short time that las aero ere made forbidding women nomen to have governesses yet they licy struggled on oil in ill ill an effort for mental illumination reading writing talking thing over among themselves and sori soll lilies gettell gatling az help from fl nin their huli hub nd and brothers they have accomplished complis hed much with so heavy a handicap in fit literature eci science ence commerce and politics |