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(ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS BY MENUR G. E WAIRMAN, Y.D., ACTING ADMINIS- TRATIVE COMMANDANT).
LEAGUE F NATIONS. President Wilson attended a gathering of the International Law Society, revunt- g presided over by Sir Thomas Barclay. In the course of his speech, President No.
OF HIDDEN BEAUTY. The Constantinople correspondent of Wilson said: the New York Herald writes:
Turkish women generally have abandon
I thought it a privilege to come here to-night, because your studies were devot
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134 Pc. A. Aitchison, "D" Co., is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony, from July 25th, 2018. PROMOTION
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ed their vells. That is the most radicaled to one of the, things which will be of No, 280 Corp), C. W. Jeffries, "A" Cu, characteristic of Constantinople, life noted most consequence to men in the future, by one who returns after a few years. the intelligent development of Interna Everywhere are Moslem women wearing tional Law. In one sense this great un Sergt. A W. Bliss. "B" Co., granted months' leave from July 3rd, the old style of black or brown or dark precedented war was fought to give vali blue sheet all its enlivening, shape-dity which no nation would afford to dis- Jess Alan but their vols are thrown regard; that, while it did not have the back in every part of the city they may ordinary sanctions while there was no he met constantly in fashionable foreign international authority as yet to enforce Perp and i conservative old Stamboul" it, it nevertheless had something behind in Asiatic Scutari and in Haidar Pasha. it which was greater than that, the moral If we can now
They are the majority of the Turkish rectitude of mankind.
1913:
L/Bombr. A. H. Carroll, Artillery Co., is granted 12 months leave from August 1st, 1910.
Spir.
W. A. Cornell. Enginber Co.. is granted 12 months' leave, from July, 1st, 1919.
Pte.
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E. E de W. Abney, 44" Co.. in grant d 12 months" leave, from August 15th, 1819
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,women on the streets. A few conserva-give to international law the kind of sives cling to the old fashion and others vitality which it can have only if it is for a less noble reason, but, broadly a real expression of our moral judgments, Pte. speaking, the veil is gone.
wo shall have completed in some sense the The mystery of what the Turkish work which this war was intended to em woman really looks like has been cleared phasise Literally, the veil has been lifted. All In the new League of Nations we are the exclusiveness and seclusion of the starting cut upon ancharted seas, and harem system has broken down. An therefore we must have, I will not, way historic institution has toppled. The the audacity, but the stendiness of our Spr. change is as radical as that effected in pose which is necessary in such novel And we must not be other realms by the airplane or wireless circumstances. telegraphy. When cre recalls the romanco afraid of new things; at the same time we Pte. and traditions that have been built upon must not be intolerant of old things. We the basic principle of the veiled Moslem wust weave out of the old material the woman, it is rather difficult to believe new garments which it is necessary that Pie that the entire custom has gone to smash. men should wear. It is a great privilege Stories of the fascinating beauties who we can do that kind of thinking for man- were hidden from the profauing guze of kind, human thinking, thinking that is the world by the veil have now become shot through with sympathy, thinking ax obrolete as tales of the mahatmas who that is made up of comprehension of the The Board will sit at Headquarters from 5.30 to 6 pm on the following inhabit LhasKI.
needs of mankind. And when I think of
dates:- Americans here naturally now like mankind. I must say I do not always Hippant remarks about the veil as a lene: think of well dressed persons. Most per firent institution. With the charm of the us are not well dressed. The heart of unknown gone, they say there remains no the world is under very plain jackets. other charms, which is a jesting mannerThe heart of the world is at very simple of declaring that the legendary loveli-resides The heart of the world is in ess of ravishing Turkish enchantresses very hemble circumstances; and unless is non-existent. Now that all eyes moyyou know the pressure of life in the hum see and judge, it is evident that, so far bier classes you know nothing of life as beauty goes, Moslem women are rather whatever. Unless you know where the like the run of all other women in the pinch comes, you do not know what the pulse has to stand. you do not know what atrain the muscle has to bear, you do not know what trial the nerve has to through to hold on. To hold on when there is no ples in life is, the hard thing.
Near Ensh
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AMERICAN VS. MOSLEM ELUT A greater number of beautiful women may be seen within five minutes on, Fith Avenue or Chestnut Street or Tremont Street than in a day on Galata bridge,
Those of us who can sip sometimes at which is Constantinople's great artery leisure and rend pleasant books and think of life. There are, of course, attractive of the past, the long past, that we had no faces. Considering that they have just part in, and project the long future, we come from behind the veil. all are are not specimens of mankind. The speci singularly hold and unabashed, giving mena of mankind have not time to do an eye for an eye. Manifestly ther enjoy that, and we must use our leisure when this new freedom. for it is a limited sort we have it to feel with them and think of pleasure to see without being seen. for them, so that we can translate their As for the Turkish temale types of desires into facts as far as that is pos the agarette advertisements-well, let us able, and see that most complicated and hope that the cigarettes themselves are elusive of all things that we call justice i
For the pocothplished- easy word to say, and more nearly as represented. Turkish vär about which ream of
a noble word upon the tongue, but one speculation have been written, concealed of the most difficult enterprises of the
types. The human spirit. an. entre ethnology of Christian women of Turkey, Armenians, Grecks and Syrians, as well as Jewesses, are far nearer to a standard type..
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In a single walk to old Stamboul 1 AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET. noticed, in Turkish dress, but with the Familiar veils thrown back over their beads, wont who were as-black-as-any negress in Mississippi they might have
Basing its judgment on opinions ex- been fat Dinah's sisters; others who might pressed in the American Navy Depart-, have been Scandinaviana or north Rus ment and statements attributed to Sec- Daniels, the Kakumin predicts sians: true Mongols, who looked like retary. direct importations from Peking, and, as that the American naval policy of the I live, a buxom, smiling Irish fate. In future will be the organization of a addition there was commonly the Levan-Pacifc feet of powerful warships of the The paper asserts that tine type, the resultant of the Turk's Verada type.
confirmed by Captain opinion is mixed blood with his captives through
Naval Attache to the American hundreds of years. Not since arriving
The Kotimin published the following composition of the Pacific Arizona, New Mexico, and Idaho; Armoured erui- wrs Seattle, North Berk
Pueblo, Fre an axiom that Woman's place is in the derick, South
The paper be home," and the windows of the home were lieves that the feet will also have thirty closely latticed to prevent her being seen destroyers and about forty submarines.
The ships chosen are of the oil burn- and most extravagant precautions were adopted and supported by the law to ing type, which represent the latest de- The Aokumin pre- keep a neighbour's window from over signs in the Navy.
dicts that the extent to which the feet looking one's garden or harem.
will be augmented in the For of America Moslem women, with veils thrown back East will be a surprise, to the entire over the old-fashioned head wrap (the Orient, although there is no reason to will soon come to modern millinery and suppose that South American and Aus tailored street clothes) work in stores and tralasian waters are cot to be equally
visited by the Pacific fleet. ofices. During the war they even did | '' Kekumin paints out that in the what cleaning of the streets was done in Extreme Orient there are already station- Constantinople. The new WOMAN hased three squadrons composed of gunboats, landed with a bound in this part of the which will be a great addition. Further Moslem world, which sets the fashion for more it is rumoured, that the construc
experiences & distinct shock to come upon Perzevada, Oklahomuz,
a Moslem woman, with veil thrown back, sitting in a street corner peddling sweets.
In this part of the Moslem world it was Huntington, Carolina, Montana,
“NEW WOMAN” IN EVIDENCE.
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5.15 p.m. No. 3 Platoon, at King's Park. Range, Annual Musketry Course, Part 1, Practices 3 and 4. drill order with pouches.
Thursday, July 10th:
compelled to close the
5:15 pm. No. Platoon, at Kirg's Park Hongkong season owing to "the"
Range, Annual Musketry Course, inclemency of the weather. Part 2, Practices, 5, 6, 7 and 12.
Dress, drill order with pouches:
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Annual Mosketry Course, Part 1 to-day. Practices 1 and 2 Dress, drill order with pouches.
Wednesday, July 9th::-
5.15 p.. ant
King's Park Range, Annual Musketry Course, Part 1, Practices 3 and 4. Dress, as above. Friday, July 11th-
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7 am, at King's Park Range, Annual Musketry Course, as detailed by Company-Commander.
SIGNALLING SECTION,
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tion of battle cruisers to be dispatched Launch will leave Blake Pier on Wednes to Asiatic waters in case of emergency is
day, July 9th, and call at Kowloon 10 minutes later. being advocated.
G. E. STEWART, Capt.,
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Hongkong, July 4th, 1919.
:
Henceforth Moslems may see the women they marry before marriage. That is re- volutionary-a swift abandonment of the custom of centuries. Since the change bas really come one realizes how fay The veil stood for the idea that woman removed from our American standards of was property, a mere chattel. She was free, natural and wholesome friendship not her own, but rather a toy or a tool between boys and girls, men and women, or a slave. A man's exclusive right in the East has been. No Turkish man has one or more women--the number depend.
MIRROR DROP CURTAIN. been permitted so much as to see the ing largely upon his ability to support face of any good woman, save his own them was embodied in the veil, or its
Acting upon a suggestion made by Bir Women had no mother or sister or other close relatives. extension, the harem.
James Barrie, Mr. Albert de Courville The sudden reversal of the Moslem re recognized claims to fellowship with the intends to introduce what he believes to quirements of women is simply incalcul great outside world." able in its consequences.
Throwing aside the veil; the Turkish be a unique feature at the Little Theat
Adelphi, in the form of a drop-curtain Certain of these consequences have woman inevitably discarda what it repre-mirror All parts of the "house" will been alarmingly bad. The war" emanci-sented. She has entered upon a new
they may be seated. The only pated" Turkish women to evil as well order for herself, ber children and bere in full view of the playgoors wher- as to good. Virtue, by the old code. had home. Literally, her outlook has been ev been a matter of restraint. The restraint clarified and widened. Will she straight danger in the innovation is one arising having gone, the virtue has too often gone way enter upon woman's finer and nobler from the contingency-if such can be alen. The growth of immorality among inheritance; as custodian of the altar fires imagined of hostility to a play taking the Turkish women is reported to me be of idealism and spirituality? Which way the form of a bombardment of the mirror. Turks to have been most alarming. Upon will the Turkish woman cast her in- It is proposed to rename the theatre "The this point I am careful to quote only influence into the side of the scales where Looking Glass.
The mirror will take the place of the telligent Torks, and not Christians or advanced" Bolabeviam makes woman a possible detractors
mere thing of flesh, an instrument for the orthodox drop scene, consisting of plate- ALSO A WOMAN'S QUESTION.!!'' Transition coalitions in Turkey create gratification of appetite, a tool of the glass with silvered back in a steel frame. State for increasing population; or will It will probably be, roughly, about 241t. "woman question" with a vengeance. the Turkish woman join that holy com- by 18ft. in size, and will necessarily be Chequipped by Education or spiritual- ideals for the new conditions of life, the pany of devotter of pure love, true faith very heavy Electric motors will raise
intelligent loyalty, sacred domesticity and and lower this novel r vast host of now unveiled women chal altruistic idealism, who are the pride cushions will prevent concussion on the lenge the "interest of all thoughtful and strength of the West. The question stage, Whether, the mirror can be made is to idle one, and it applies more widely in one piece is not yet known. There
may be some' amusing developments, than to Turkey. (Continued at font of nézt rikkoin)
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