HAREM BEAUTIES A MYTH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16521, 23 August 1919, Page 11

HAREM BEAUTIES A MYTH.

1 [ William T. Ellis, a New York news--1 paper man, states that as a result of disi fardins the veil among Turkish women I ot ro-ctay, one is sadly disillusioned. | “In a .single.walk to old Stamboul,” I ho writes, “I notieed, in Turkish dross, | but with the familiar veils thrown hack i over their heads, women who were as j black as any negross in .Mississippi—they \ might have been fat Dinah’s sisters; i light-haired, blond Circassians; others ; who might have been Scandinavians or ? North Hussions; true Mongols, who ‘ looked like direct importations from Poj Icing, and, as T live, a. buxom s'miling ' Irish face! Jn addition, there was comI inojilv the l.evantino' type, tiic resultant { of the Turk’s mixed blood with his eapj lives through hundreds of years. Not ; since arriving have .1 seen a face that 1 made me wish T wore an artist. There arc-, o[ course, attractive faces. Con- ; sidering that they have just eonie from I behind the veil, all are singularly bold and unabashed, giving an eye for an eye. 'Manifestly 1 hey enjoy this new freedom, for it is a limited sort of pleasure, to see without being seen. ■ “.As for tbe Turkish female type of I the cigarette advertisement —well, let ns i hope that Ihe cigarettes themselves are ! more nearly as represented.”