HAREM BEAUTIES A MYTH.
William T. Ellis, a New York newspaper man, states that as a result of discarding of the veil among Turkish women of to-day, one is sadly disillusioned. "In a single walk to old Stamboul," he writes, "I noticed, in Turkish dress, but with the familiar veils throws back over their heads, women who were as blaok as any negress in Mississippi—they might have been fat Dinah's sisters; light-haired, blond Circassians; others who might have been Scandinavians or north Russians; true Mongols, who looked like direct importations from Peking, and, as I live, a buxom, smiling Irish face! In addition, there was commonly the Levantine type, the resultant of the Turk's mixed blood with his captives through hundreds of years .Not since arriving have I seen, a face- that made rae wish I were an artist. There are, of course, attractive faces. Considering that they have just come from behind the veil, all are singularly bold and unabashed, giving an eye for an eye. Manifestly they enjoy this new freedom, for it is a limited sort of pleasure to see without being seen. "As for the Turkish females type of the cigarette advertisement—well, let ua hope that the cigarettes themselves are more marly as rspmantid, 1 '
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 10
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