Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . venis, generally speaking, butand the attendance in pro-portion to the population is lamentablysmall. Education. ?- elementary The social status and daily life of the townswomen of Albania differs but slightly from that of their Turkish Albanian sisters_ In the remoter country Women. J districts, however, they enjoy a considerable degree of freedom, and leadoutdoor lives of healthy industry, wear-ing no veils while pasturing their flockson the hills, or fetching water from thevillage fountain. TUR
Women of all nations; a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence . venis, generally speaking, butand the attendance in pro-portion to the population is lamentablysmall. Education. ?- elementary The social status and daily life of the townswomen of Albania differs but slightly from that of their Turkish Albanian sisters_ In the remoter country Women. J districts, however, they enjoy a considerable degree of freedom, and leadoutdoor lives of healthy industry, wear-ing no veils while pasturing their flockson the hills, or fetching water from thevillage fountain. TURKEY AND GREECE 669 The highlands of Asiatic Turkey are by marrying their owners. Each wife has, peopled by a great variety of nomadic however, her separate tent and her special tribes belonging to different occupation. The care of the flocks will races—Circassians and Kurds, be apportioned to two or three, each tend- Yuruks, Tartars, and Turkomans, all of ing a certain number of the broad-tailed whom are. at least nominally, Mohammedans. Karamanian sheep ; a fourth looks after The TURKISH GIPSY WOMEN. Their conversion to Islam is, however,for the most part of but recent date, andthey retain many of the customs, beliefs,and religious rites of their pagan fore-fathers. Within present limits it is notpossible to describe more than one of theseraces, and the Yuruks may be chosen asillustrating, to a certain extent, the restof these nomads. The Yuruks are extremelypolygamous, the number of their wivesfrequently exceeding the limits fixed bythe Prophet; a man of average wealthhas at least seven. While to a Turk aplurality of wives is an expensive luxuryto a Yuruk it is a necessity of existenceas he requires a certain number of hands to enable him to pursue his calling offlock-master, camel-breeder, etc. ; and ashe cannot hire such hands, he obtains them the camels, a fifth collects fuel and drawswater for the joint family, a sixth will makethe butter and cheese, while the
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