WOMEN NOT ADMITTED.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9427, 30 May 1891, Page 2

WOMEN NOT ADMITTED.

The Mosque of St Sophia is one of the most interesting buildings in Constantinople to visitors. It is in the form of a Greek cross, and has a central dome 100 ft above the floor; it was doubtless once znnoh higher, as the gilded cupola could be seen a hundred miles at sea, and was a land* mark for ships coming up the harbour.' The inside is very beautiful, with its sixty ; columns of marble and granite anal' porphyry, some brought from Heliopolis, j some from Baalbsc, some from Athens, andothers from the temple of Diana at; Ephesus. It was built 581-588 a.d., and is < one of the finest speciments of Byzantine j architecture. But all the grandeur* and all the beauty of this magnificent Mosque is for male eyes alone. The peculiar religion of the Horan, as proclaimed by the priests, has set a rale of inhibition againstthe Mohammedan women visiting the Mosque; if permitted to enter on any special occasion, they mnst sit in the galleries, with their faces closely veiled. This is the intolerance of a superstitious religion, but it will not do for the descendants of those who hung old women as witches at Salem to denounce this Mohammedan discrimination too loudly. We are growing more tolerant as we grow more intelligent, but thrre are still physicians who will not prescrib ?, but proscribe, Warner’s safe cure solely because it is a proprietary remedy, though they know it is the only known specific for kidney troubles. The more intelligent, following the true inspirations of the healing, art, knowing its virtues, do not hesitate to use it in their own practice, however, and readily recommend it to those afflicted. The proprietors of Warner’s safe cute have published many physicians’ testimonials daring the past five or six years, and Dr J. M. Card, of St Mary’s, Pa., writes June 24, 1890: —"I have used Warner’s safe cure now for the last three months for my own benefit, and am pleased to certify that it has done me more good than any medicine I have tried for kidney trouble, and I am recommending it to all my patients."