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THE TURKS AND THE WOMEN.To speak to a Turk of the females of his household, is to commit the grossest breach of etiquette and politeness. It is forbidden to make the slightest allusion, even indirectly, to this delicate subject; and, of course, all such phrases as “ How is madam, to-dav?” (commonplace as they are to us), are quite banished from conversation. The most ferociously-bearded and turbaned Turk would blush like a sehool-girl if he heard any inquiry so outrageously improper. The ambassadress of Prance, wishing to make a present to llcdschid Pacha, of some superb Lyons silk, for the ladies of his harem, sent them to him with this brief note:— “Please accept some silks, which you know better than any one how to use.” To have expressed more plainly the object of the gift, would have been bad taste, even in the eyes of Redsclrid Pacha, in spite of his familiarity with French manners; and the exquisite tact of the marchioness caused her to adopt a form of expression so gracefully vague as could not wound even the sensitive susceptibility of an oriental. A man may as well abandon at once the idea of knowing anything more of the Turkish beauties than he is able to gather from the glimpses which he may snatch, by surprise, from beneath the awning of the avaba, through the window of a talika, or beneath the shade of the cypresses of the cemetery, at some moment when the heat or solitude has caused......... , -l . * 1 M 1.. i.1. _ *1
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London Ladys Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 14, 1854
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