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Show LAND INNOCENT CF BATHTUBS In Turkey the Stationary Tub, So Familiar Fa-miliar In Western Lands, Is Absolutely Ab-solutely Unknown. The Turk in spite of his constant bathing (bathing being enjoined by the Mohammedan religion) has no stationary sta-tionary tubs nor wash bowls indeed, Turkish houses are quite innocent of plumbing, says Edith Gilfallin, In au article on the colorful ancient capital of the Ottoman empire. But as the Turk never bathes save in running water the brick floors contain dr;-rus. . - that carry the water to the garden outside. out-side. Always before eating, a servant pours, from a pitcher, water over an oriental's hands ; which seems a wise provision, for they do not use knives nor forks; spoons only are used to eat soup or sherbets. They do not sit around a table as we do, hut sit on cushions round toot-high toot-high talile trays. All over the near east they have but two meals. Breakfast Break-fast is a sort of movable feast up to eleven o'clock. It consists of coffee, fruit and various hot breads. The Turk is enabled to sustain life until his dinner at sunset by drinking innumerable cupfuls of thick, hot, heavily-sweetened coffee. Dinner, which is consumed In the evening, is the only meal the Turk takes in the bosom of bis family. It often Is an elaborate affair of twelve courses: Tomatoes and squash and eggplant and other vegetables stuffed with rice or minced meat or cheese, fish swimming in oil, mutton stews, goat fricassees, roasted chickens, rich pastries and candles, preserves of plum and quince and fig and peach, and always coffee and the narghile waterplpe. At some of these dinners they drink " a sort of brandy called rakl ; but alco- t hollc drinks are anathema to the orlho- dox Turk. |