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Show TURKISH HAREM I11S8 HIT Bf HIGHCOSTS Women turned Loose by Masters Mas-ters Work in Varied Places Without Veils CONSTANTINOIiE, Aug. 21 Nowhere hr.s t:e high r.si of living been felt more keenly than in Turkish harems. Men who were formerly able to maintain mar. Wives and COncU-Ibines COncU-Ibines find their incomer, lnsufflcleni to keep up lar?e establlshnients and jars forced to turn some of the women adrirt. I American WOlhen releif workers who have been investigating soe;.i and economic conditions siy Ihe tragedies .Turkish women Kave ondergons as a reauli of the war ire even worse than Jtii other ISiiropean countries because lof the nt ir r helplessness of women and their lacK of training which might i make them self-supporting. Tin. sufferings of Moslem women are worse in cities thun in the coun- try, for th" country women are fre-, iquently trained to do farmwork and I are an as:.c to their husbands rather than a liability. furthermore the! economic conditions have not been ' turned so seriously in rural districts , Farming goes on much as usual. Wo-j I men can find employment In olive groves, at silk culture. In fruit orch-lards orch-lards and MPn in gralnfitlds Since the war hus robbed so manyi Women of Uieir husbands, fathers or other male relatives upon whom they w .-re dependent) many city women have forced themselves into employ- , mom which was never before regard-; ed as proper for Moslem women Turk -1 , ish women with their veils thrown; I back from their faces may now be , seen as sale women in scores of Con-1 atantlnople shops. They are even em- I ployed as street sweepera Tfiere has been a sreat outcry against Moslem women accepting em-j Iployment which forces them Into as-1 Isoc.atlon with men, especially Chris-1 tlan men, hut the economic pressure; has been so strong that religious pre-1 Indices had to make way. The need for nurses with the rirm gave Mos-1 I em women their first opportunity to get hospital training and become! nurr.es. That was the entering wedge which has opened the way Into other) employments monopolized by Greek' and Armenian women. Turkish women rnaj now be fodnd In telephone ex-1 changes, Th'y are acting as cash-) lers. janitors and even street car con- ductors. Stern necessity has won for Turk-1 ish women an Independence which Was undreamed of six years ago, and i the wall of the untrained women forced to earn their livelihood has. aroused Turkish leaders to a realiza-1 itlon of the necessity for better and I more practical education for women |