Show < 6 Persian Baths I There are two remarkable restrictions in every Persian city No Christian is ever permitted to enter one of the public baths These baths are on the plan of I what are called Turkish baths in America Amer-ica The bathe in women the morning I and the men in the afternoon After the bath the bathers lounge in an outer room and gossip and smoke For the women especially the weekly visit to the bath is like resorting to a womans club They take their sewing and embroidery and after the bath sit for hours chatting sewing sew-ing and smoking the waterpipe When the woman returns home from the bath she is full of the gossip of the neighborhood i neighbor-hood and has plenty to talk about for a week to come In Turkey all sects can visit the bath but the Persians allow no I one to bathe with them but the faithful followers of the Prophet Teheran Letter from Jfinister Benjamin I |