Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ers. A man has no personalrights whatsoever over the slavesof his wife. Many black slaves areimported. The women usually per-form the more menial householdduties, and the males supply theeunuchs of the wealthier classes,the only male servants allowed toenter a harem. Considering socialconditions, mulattos are rare inAsia Minor. The houses and householdarrangements of Christians andJews in the inlandtowns and country areso similar to those ofMohammedans of thesame class that in a brief sketchsuch a
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . ers. A man has no personalrights whatsoever over the slavesof his wife. Many black slaves areimported. The women usually per-form the more menial householdduties, and the males supply theeunuchs of the wealthier classes,the only male servants allowed toenter a harem. Considering socialconditions, mulattos are rare inAsia Minor. The houses and householdarrangements of Christians andJews in the inlandtowns and country areso similar to those ofMohammedans of thesame class that in a brief sketchsuch as this detailed descriptipn is uncalledfor. In those remote districts the patri-archal system is still more or less strictlythe rule among Christians as among Mo-hammedans and Jews. In Smyrna, byfar the most important town of westernAsia Minor, and wherever modernideas have penetrated it is now practic-ally abandoned by them. The deepestrespect for parents is still manifested,however, and the widowed mother stillkeeps the place of honour in the houseof her son. Jewish and Christian Households. A BETHLEHEM BEAUTY. BirthCustoms buy or girl, is a happy event and cele-brated with festivities and rejoicing. Boys,as a rule, are preferred ; butamong the peoples who supplythe slave-market the girl-childreceives the warmest welcome. A shorttime ago I happened to be spending acouple of nights with a tribe of nomadicKurds. In the course of conversation aGreek servant of ours remarked that theGreeks preferred sons to daughters. TheKurdish chief answered with a laugh, Weprefer girls. I can get £70 for a girl. 662 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS Special ceremonies, differing somewhat o nationality, are connected with the birth of a child. The must important matter in every case is to guard against the power of the evil spirits which on such asions arc specially prone to mischief its and legs are straightened, and itis then firmly swathed in a long bandagewhich covers everything but its head. Ati
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