Show TURKISH WOMEN IN THE sews it at a famous bething place just outside of constantinople globe democrat just outside the limits of con stantin ople up in the golden horn iford is aga hammam a bath frequented by many ladies of tho the highest position tion not beca because use they have no east baths of their own but because they are sure to meet their friends there without restriction and have a good time it has always been licen a great place for mothers to take their marriageable daughters and find other mothers to go to choose a bride for their sons as wives are not chosen for their mental but physical beauties alone certainly this is tho the place to choose where beauty is quite unadorned the ladies arrive each one at tended by her own personal ser vant and another who bears a very substantial lunch basket and a handsome gold bordered bathing wrap the eunuchs remain outside or go away and come back at the hour the bath is ended as it occupies several hours first first the ladies are ili divested vested of their clothing and receive receive a crape they drape about them while they sit the regulation time I 1 in in the first room during thia this time they chat gitil willi each other though not very familiarly and they keep up the pretence predence pre tence of the drapery until they reach and pass the next room after which the sheet and modesty modest yare are thrown joff off and with their abundant hair streaming reaming at loose and unconfined they walk erect into the last room as eve did about the garden of eden there they stretch themselves out upon marble slabs while e two attendants rub them and lather them and find pour hot water over them until it seemed as if th they e ly would bo boiled each lady is 13 laid upon the marble slab which is is slightly inclined and two attendants is begin their labors one at the feet and ana the other at the head beat they ri ey use a sort of clay called polo which raises a thick white lather which sometimes grows several inches thick tho the attendants use nothing but this soapy clay and their hands to cleanse their subjects with and they rub and knead and punch until it seems they would reduce the flash flesh to a pulp all the 1 1 w while bile leaving the lather to accum alcum until the bather looks liken like a snowball another kind of soap is 13 used for the hair and another again for the face but the lather is always left to gather thick as the worker rubs and toils and ration rolls in streams down her glistening gli stenli ng ody tody t I sometimes these attendants arc are white sometimes black randsome and some of the ladies of the harem are as black as any a ny negro in our own country for it ia is quite a common thing for a man to make a wife of his ilia abyssinian slave these inky ladies wear the turkish veil as religiously as 10 do lo the white wives and indeed the color line is not drawn closely at all in the orient this turkish bath is cited from the roof and through rou h stained glass and the colored colored light falls upon the forms laid out beneath with beautiful effect A large fountain with a deep basin stands in the middle of the room and anti numberless little pipes throw air on sprays of perfumed per famed water above the slab on which the ladies lie like animated snowflakes kicking and squi squealing aling when soap gets in their eves eyes or mouths or when attendants tickle them unexpectedly A little silver basin stands at hand and after the ladies have soaked in soap ion long g enough they take quite hot water entirely too hot for anybody but a turkish wo man who is used to it and pour it gently over them not dashing the water but softly emptying it so that it soon washes off oft all the lather leaving the flesh rosy and fresh this pouring of water is continued sometimes half an hour and rubbing and rolling and kneading of the body after which the lady is at liberty to plunge into the tho basin if she wishes among the other laughing and frolicking w women omen black and white mingling indiscriminately words cannot depict the utter abandonment to fun and sport that tak takes es possession of these woman weman al aad d children too for after a girl is 9 years old she ia is admitted to society unrestrainedly the young girls are all plumper than our young girls and they have ak a ve in the main fine figures though the knees are always big and prominent which is probably caused by the habit of sitting cross legged as its they do their skin is is very white and pure in spite of their unwholesome diet and indolent habits when they have sported about the basin to their hearts content the servants bring in their lunch baskets and the women squat flat on the dripping floor and without other garments than their trickling hair eat until sam weller says they swell visibly and play all manner of pranks with each other after which the remnants of food are carried away and the women return to the water again and splash for a short time longer and then proceed to their dress dressing i ng rooms t the e bathing gown for the first time being produced then they go and sit ti themselves em selves on stools after a short lounge on a divan and a cigarette or so and coffee and the professional beautifier takes charge of them first the hair is thoroughly thoro dried and picked pic ked out free from the tangled tangles and oil smoothed with the hands bands only until it is soft and glossy as silk then it ia is braided in two long tresses though some affect afflect other styles of dressing it the hair is most always banged in scallops ps the hairdresser hair bair dresser passes to another and the tooth polisher comes and with a brush and char coal powder makes the teeth glisten and these women are quite ebnert expert dentists pulling bad teeth an and filling those possible to save after her comes the painter with her little box she begins by first bathing face and neck and arm with w ith balm or gilead which h makes mak Is the skin appear like marble and emits a delicious delici oua fragrance and also preserves the skin from injury by the paints applied later then the eyebrows and eyelashes are dyed with kohol which makes them glossy brownish black and enhances greatly the beauty of their eyes and makes them look lal larger gerand and more expressive after this a kind of pigment made of zinc Is is laid on thickly and modulated with a soft cloth and then the cheeks are painted with a vivid crimson and the lips as red as paint pa int can make them the hands bands are bathed in balm ot at gilead and the nails are trimmed and dyed dye 4 a brownish red the feet receive receive the same treatment with the ilia addition of the services of a pedicure for loose as these women wear their shoes they have corns bunions and very severe eyere chilblains when this is all done they are ready to bo be dressed for the street the first garment ia is a brousha crepe undershirt or cli chemise emise with long loose sleeves and made V shaped at the neck then the pantaloons are put rut on these aie are made long cuong enough I 1 to fasten at the knees and still fall down to the ankles and cover the feet and wide enough to appear almost like a shirt these trousers are made of largo large and gaudily patterned chintz or silk of the brightest colors in foulard or brilliant tinted satin it 1 requires two breadths of satin for each pantaloon leg above these pantaloons is a sort ofil kirt of four breadths of cloth satin silk or gray colored chintz though this ia is usually plain these breadths are slain one an and one half yards to two yards long and they are not sewn at nil in front and only a short distance down the hip and in the back the rest is left to train behind like a trained drew while in the house they are tucked up under the girdle while in the street the sash or girdle ia is usually I 1 a I 1 aahl AM 7 flau sm ve ik shawl wrapped around tho the waist t three bree or lour times anddie and cue end only is left to hang down the turkish women do not wear corsets or any kindred appliances P ances to compress the tile waist fhe rhe next garment is 13 a jacket coming caming just to the waist line or buttoning in front with three gold old or jewelled buttons the sleeves are go snug and reach to the elbow only bug below elow which the crape sleeves of the chemise fall full and loose the front of the jacket ia i cut out pompadour style but so very low as to leave the tile whole bust exposed except for the covering of the crape chemise which still leaves something to be desired in the way of covering which however is supplied by the numbers of strings of pearls coral wooden and glass beads and diamond and e emerald in erald or other jewelled necklaces and all headed by a black velvet ribbon on w which are seven gold colas coins and pendants pennants pend ants immense earrings aie are worn and bracelets four and five inches wide as well as numbers of rings some real diamonds and some of the moat pal pable pinchbecks pinch becks for it does not matter what kind or I 1 price rice an in arna ment is only so it strikes the wear ers fancy and these women are capable any hour of trading off air a diamond necklace for a tawdry cheap affair if only showy enough after all these jewels jewele are in their places the preparation for the street is made by putting up on the ilia head a sort of headdress made in the form of a scotch cap of card board covered with brilliant satin green red or yellow and on this are pinned artificial flowers all of the b brightest ri g b I 1 e t primary colors and pendant t j jewels elefar and coins over this is is worn the va or veil which is the crowning beauty of turkish women without which they would be but ordinary mor more atals |