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Show POLYGAMY DYING AMONG THE Ttr ) "Polygamy i.c fast lyU:s the Turks, and not on ;). ! 11 change in mora! stand. " a:- t cause of the attitude ,.f ',,' D,;t b. I themselves. Formerly , .,;'.'.'' ,,,!!R ' five wives d welt .1 ;ui'-,, !,;..- ;,,'' lr fT roof, but now every ,vjf. . !' home of her own, and i n - ' of supporting so many h. :; 'T.'"'1'''' ' pelling the average Tn:k ; V;.'"-harem V;.'"-harem to on wife-.'' '' ''''- i Thie new t,r,,f ,,f t-,,. . .. .-.T. fluence of w.iman w.s- ; day by Miss Ftort-n.-.- .A. -":.V.',."S'"N of the Amori'-an foil.--.. , ; Constantinople, in :i t ',..''.'"" i ; League for Political Kd'i. -'."v" York on "The Outlook f..- .'." ' of the Oric-nt." " Another statement t!:,,; to many in the aud;.-t,.-.' ..iV n.?! Turks as a rare ar of '.,., , f'-i w ith blue eyes, a ml ;, .. " pie to know. They -.. .,..,,'.,,'.', est. and hospitable i:i .-, h:V:i 'X"?n' In these respects the nws-- . .''"1 ''-frr,!' those of thf upper itiidd!- . V-.? fer greatly from th- iv.t:v;' a nation must he jUfat.,i. .'," highest nor its lowest, bur :.. class between them. l,T':'t' y WOMEN VEILED F:!'T n:KE "There is a general imp: - . .,,,.. that Turkish women are 1 .-, 1', hind the lattice win. I.ws ' h'j-o"'" and have little freedom -. 1 nis :s rar rorm ...ne t. --;.0 phorus steamers are !.,., ,jf., .'.'" them: they jostle yo:i ,,,, , ... h "j'-"1 the narrow streets of -.i,'-'lnJ Veiled they must be. bur . :'.., ,u'' go about with a freedom -...:...r that assure-'! any Europ-ai: -. ... i;a!, to molest a Moslem v. ..;; !:,' .,,'.-. 'l'r death to a Turk, and s- r: ' ,',n,.'.' quences to a foreigner. "'" "It is an acknowledged fa.- ,--ilt women of Turkey control -!; :',r lUa' government appointments. ,!uo. from a work recently publixi-.i .v n long resident of the country: women hold ultimate sway ove- t'i f conduct of the men. The tane'd j'; trigues for place and power ,owh e?n ter In the harem form the kev -l0 ma"-7 vicissitudes of Turkish history.' " CHANtJES IN THEIR DUESS. Even the dress of the women f f-. harem, said Miss Fenshaw. sho-.va t.Vir growing independence. A fe-.v yea1- ago every woman wrapped herself before be-fore going out in an upper g,irmen. that completelv enshroude,! h..r k.,lj and was not to be removed until ?;., was again in the house. .ow ail th younger women have a lont-.l ;i !0-.SAr ?-head ?-head covering, that they drop, at will I when on the Bosphorus staniers fori pleasure trip or resting else where. Several Sev-eral edicts were issued by the sultan 1 against the innovation, but after a. few months of obedience the wom would quietly resume their new hal- i dress until another edict banished a,t for a time. At last he became wearH of the struggle, and the modern fashion has become a settled thing. Chirac Tribune. " ' Morning- in a Passionist Cloister. ( (Pittsburg Catholic.) The founder of the Passionists pr f vided for his son's souls when formulating formu-lating the rules of the order, hen-e their rigorous inner life, that of the contemplative. Here is a bit of this life not generally known to Catholics: If the reader is fond of poetry and the stars, let him imagine himself in the great industrial city of the west, Pittsburg. The clock on the city hall Ix striking the midnight hour; a lor.? the water front the great workshops have thrown open their massive doers, -lighting up the waters and the hills beyond. Here big men with well developed de-veloped muscles are drawing mighty moias tnrougn a iorest or name, shaping shap-ing iron and steel for the markets of the world. Clustered between tx great mountains, above the flow of tno great rivers, and distant from the eternal eter-nal grind of industry is the mother house of the Passionists in this country. coun-try. From this height one commands , a magnificent view of a millioned-peo-pled city and its great industries that dot the water fronts for miles and L miles, stretching, out into peaceful jr country fields. Here is peace and re?t: no hum but that of the sacred song, no ! stir but that of the silent monks de- : voting their time to work and prayer. At this particular hour, midnight, I everything is as still as some forest f chapel. It may be a winter's night, ! with the hills above whitened by th first snows and a great kindly moon j at its full, penetrating even the win- dows of the untenanted chapel. At such an hour the hill districts of the ) iron city are wrapped in sleep, yea, J even the men of whom I am writing ar enjoying all the blessings of that de- ; lightful companion. f Let the dreamer stand on the whitened whit-ened hills and dream dreams of his own ? imaginative land. Half an hour before ! the town clock strikes 2 he will be j poetry his imagination eouldp ioture awakened by the. most e.xhilaratin? poetry his imagination could picture. Suddenly, from where he cannot quite divine, a gush of sweetest melody i bursts upon him. arousing every fac- t ulty of the soul to action. Instino- ( tively the dreamer turns to the dreary monastery on the mountain side, his - eyes fall upon a lighted chapel, through the lighted windows of which lie may see the gray hairs of some aged man ,-of ,-of God standing erect, his ees riveted on the Word of God which he chants. The music he has heard is the Pas- I" sionist's greeting to the new born day. . In a word, it is the beginning cf the , day's work in the monastery of Pt. ; Paul of the Cross. Precisely at the same hour in every Passionist monastery monas-tery in the world the same solemn cer- emony is being performed. For near- ly two hours students and priests stand erect and chant the praises of their I Creator. This first ceremony is known as "Matins, 'taken from the Latin s word "Matutina," meaning morning. hence morning prayers or praise. The . matins are made up of nine psalms and nine lessons, taken from the scriptures. ; and conclude with the chantins ("n solemn festivals, the sinking) f '!'-' .enecucius. messed be the Lor'i -" v of Israel. The time intervening be- 2. tween the conclusion of the service an! half after 3 is spent in silent prayer. The moment the clock strikes half-past , this hour, if the dreamer looks about, he can see through the windows dar figures passing quickly along the nv- f I nastic corridors. The monks are re- I turning to their cells. ' |