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THE FAST OF RAMAZAN. TOPSY-TURVY OBSERVANCE."-
ernment.
The
HUMAN SACRIFICE... STILL PRACTISED FLAG UNDER BRITISH.
Like their friends, the Shans and the Stugphes, who roam the dense jungles of Hukawng Valley, the Nagas worship strange gods, who in times of scarcity: or during an epidemic of disease of any kind they find it necessary to propitiate When simple offerings, of fruit, grain, or outs' desh fail to move them, the Nagas send out their "beadhunters to mako a human capture.
Stern efforts have been made to stamp Half a dozen out these hideous rites
CONSTANTINOPE, March 31st.
It comes as something of a shock in Only about 10 per cent. of Turks here
this twentieth century of the Christian still keep the Fast of Raniazan. The rest are frankly sceptics. The latter, too, era to learn from Sir Harcourt Butler, feel themselves encouraged by the Gov: the Governor of Burma, that human The former régime clapped sacrifice is still practised under the Bri- them in prison for breaking the fast,tish dag, although it is by the wild tribes whereas to day the Republic pats theat
of the Naga Hills on the borderland of Assam: and itself on the back for making such a display of liberty of conscience: observance of the fast has been long diminishing in intellectual circles, but wer years ago there would have been perhaps 40 per cent of the population who kept to the strict religious prescription which forbids even a whift of tobacco or a sup of water from dawn to sunset of Rama zan. To-day the authorities are watching the bodjas and leaving the dairy alone. Police are present at sermons in the mus ques, and when preachers go outside a list of subjects specially drawn up for
years, go an average of twenty boys them this year by the rivil authorities of the city when they touch political and thirty girls were kidnapped annual-
"they
from Assam and sacrificed. matters which smell of reaction"
Many other border tribes are infected It is not long sinco are brought up as sharply by the arus of the law as layaen publicly breaking by similar beliefs
a Khasi cowherd of Wahumar, in, the the fast used to be. The laity Fest a uatural pleasure, a half-uialicious satis Shillong district, was tried for making a human sacrifice, to a local hill deity faction at this turn of the wheel, whereby the hodjes now suffer the very surveil-in the belief that the rite would bring him fance which they once exercised through prosperity. Orissi, on the Bay of Ben the medium of the State. At the same gal, bas been the scene of many such time the on fasting public entrenches sacrifiers, but they have been conducted At Dacen, not Fitwolf bahind the new maxims, which it with so much secrecy that the offenders repeats from mouth to mouth and fremhave rarely been frace! daily paper to daily paper. These are: privacy of religion, respect-for-individual The Stute has no right to conscience. interfere between a man and his God," "Civilisation and freedom of conscience go hand in hand," and other similar texts which justify the prevailing re- ligious indifferenze,
long ago one man and thirteen -women were sacrificed to appease a Jocal deity who had smitten a village with-cholera
Sacrifeial rites continue to be commar Two years ago almost all over Africa. six chiefs of the Mashonas of the Mount Darwen district of Rhodesin were s07- tenced to death for sacrificing a girl who lived in a cave in the hills, in order to bring to an end a protracted. drought. They urged in their defence that the day after the sacrifice abundant rain fell! a
Instances have even occurred in Europe. In Sept., iven, the Madrid authorities investigated the sacrifice of a young shep- herdess in the province of Estremadura, and in October, 1921, at Hoog Soeren, in Central Holland; a religious fanatic buried 'two children alive in crder that the village might be saved from the wrath to come.
Fortunately, the act became known, and the children were rescued.
NOMINAL FAST, ACTUAL CARNIVAL, Nevertheless Ramazne is still very distinctive season in the Turkish year. season of an intensified round of plea. sare, social intercourse. theatregoing? und nights out. Trams are kept running till the early hours of the morning. The Piring has even relaxed his new order and allowed places of assent to stay open till 10 .ta. All the rest of the year Stamboul after night fall is still a dark descit of silence-doors barre windows shuttered,et aren family life is astir in the interiors after eight ot The few passers-by who uipe o'clock have ventured out to risit a neighbour carry lanterns to guide them in the hollow-sounding emptiness and obscurity Seen from across the Bosphorus, the city is broken into halves-the European quarter sparkling with light, the much larger Turkish quarter a blur of black-
An extraordinary ceremony took place ness with only a few street lamps visible and the lighthouse winking by the sea recently at the Jewish ceremony in Lam- walls. All this is altered in Ramazan.berg. It was the sequel of a love tragedy The month of the nominal fast is a month of carnival nights. Everyone is oat everyone ta en fête, everyone is in search of amusement, society, Birtation.
This year Ramazan came in one day it mocked the earlier than expected. calendars. They had all agreed that it
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which involved the deaths of two Jewish girls, Sabina and Adela Zwerling. Pinkus Mangot, a commercial traveller. fell in love with Sabina, but she did not res- pond to his affection. "Irritated by her refusal to marry him, he shot her lead, killing by mistake also her sister Adela
za old shepherds in an unknown village of named Treppich. According to
ritual still observed among pious Jews. Kouia vilayet reported to the kadi. or local judge, that they had seen the slip if one of an affacce couple is about to of the new moon day earlier. The die & socalled black wedding is cele wire told Angora, Angora told Constan brated at the death bed The idea of tinuple, and the morning newspapers told the "black welding, is that even death the public, making meticulous fasters cannot dissolve the retrothal, and that feel guilty and drop their breakfast coffee it is a disgrace when a financée passe's away unmarried. In the ease of Adela half consumed. This chedienge to the first personal announcement of sighting Zwerling it was impossible to arrange a "black wedding." because she was killed the new moon is one of the old customs which the Government has
prescribes a wedding at the cemetery. touched. In a few years the fast will on the spot. In such cases the
Enormous crowds asscated to witness. no doubt be regulated by strict calendar
the unusual ceremony. The clip with calculations, leaving to play to the un certainties and tantalising anticipations the dead bride was placed before the and surprises which still accompany its open grave under a canopy, where Trep- A peasant's word will pich stood, and special service was per- eunited less than a "scientist's certi- formed. The bridegroom. however, was tude, and one more step in 'modernisa-unable to stand the ordeal of the verẻ, tion and the end of the picturesque will mony and collapsed before it was finish. have been taken.
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A REFUGE FOR MEMENTOES OF
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BUSINESS AS USUAL. The old Ramazan, as it is remembered by middle-aged Turk, was very different from the modern. It centred exclusively in Stauiboul, whereas now-a-days the amusements, the kinemas, the chief Tur- kish theatre, the houses and flats of the
One of the surest signs that Germany's rich, are in the European quarter. "Souances are stabilised, writes a Berlin the completion of the pleasure-seeking movement has spread correspondent, is over the intervening Colden Horn, and Berlin's vast new museum building which the night trains bring all classes, and has languished in a half-finished eondi- particularly the elegantly dressed hanutas tion since the war began, and has been and their families, into Pera There the object of embittered hostility he-l they find Turkish adaptations of French tween Berlin's leading architects, who plays given by their Municipal Dramatic have had time and opportunity to re- Society, and can applaud the new Turcover from the trammels on them un kish actresses (if they can hear the der what is now known as the "Wilhe above the prompter). They find restaur mine era in German art.
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In Stamboul remain the less Rauch, Schinkel, and Schadow. There well-to-do, watching Laze dances to inter-will be one hall devoted to Frederick minably buzzing music in rickety café the Great and other to Queen Louise
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CINEMA NOTES.
QUEEN'S THEATRE,
the lit stalls, visiting the Turkish Punch. Many of the treasures taken into safe
Once in a while a producer strikes and-Judy shadow-play known as Kara custody from the various royal palaces
when the revolution came will be stor upon the happy combination of hying gueux, or applauding the more serious of then the rival theatrical, company ed here, and as far as can be ascertain comedy situations worked out by real to the municipal company.
ed at present, the whole big building comediane Thomas H Tuce has dond will he a very complete monument of the this in bis, now comedy farce, "Bell
,"
The times when after Ramazan night one could sleep nearly all day. when the. Government bureaux opened for indu). times so recent as to be known less as Boy 13." The story does not rely upozi
historical than as "pre-war”.
beautiful scenery or gripping drama to carry it; there is comedy, romance
had really tasted hard since dawn. There thrills and more comedy, put over in the no leisure now for walks of this kind, lively fashion that distinguishes every nor money enough for feasting both dayince production.
WORLD THEATRE.
Love Piker," which will be shown "The is still observed generally during the day, it is that there may be enough at the World Theatre on Wednesday nexty piastres for these night outings, which
gently short hours, when even the bus ness man was practically invisible at his office, are over, Ramazan is now month of -bard-work and harder play, The State ignores the stomach pains of the few functionaries who allows itu2officials to begin fast. It and night. If some degree of abstinence
work a little later, that is ali.. As for business, it is a greater tyrant than ever, allowing no respite at all in the prevailing ceptomic decline. There was a happy time when hypocritical Turkish magnates, having eaten heavily behind the closed doors of their homes, would go out for the usual Ramazan walk-before sunset, falsely imitating the irritability of those who (Continued at foot of neat Column.)
As are nearly all that remains of Ramazati is a play that scales the heights of in the Turkish towns. As for religion, stirring emotions and aweeps on to
millions of peasants," says a leading climax of breathless intensity. Turkish writer, are completely ignor daughter of luxury, charming and det ant of the very meaning of the words lightful Anita Stwart is more radiantly of their profession of faith." Some, he beautiful than ever in the merry romance
heart interest, pathos and comedy, adds, even do not know who the Prophet woven from the loom of life. It has of Islam was.-K.
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