RETURN OF HAREMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 8

RETURN OF HAREMS

WISH OF KEMAL PASHA’S WIFE

ATTACK ON' HUSBAND.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 15,

There is said to be something like a rtriilsioh on the part of Turkish wonieri tb their new freedom. Appnr’Bhtly the wholesale jettisoning of the . hkrem which' came'with* KjbmaT Pa shats 1 : up-to-date' ideas o'f five Or sik years ago • haVe riot turned out so well at the end of the five-year plan. It may bW* remembered tha't whdn' Kcimal Pasha, key’s dicta,tor, ' friet the i- wealthiest' heiress in'Syri& oft'-the eve 1 of his;;|victqrious campaign’ he fell .in 1 love aridijiriarried her. KemM,'all f-r 1 * OccidejHt*d ; ideas in domestid-adnini-ntratioh?' trained his wife to , forgo evei*ythfng»,,pld-fashion(ed Tu'kish, and live as' they do in Paris. Her salon 1 Was; conducted on Parisian lines and ; became v 'thO latest ail’d most soughtafter in the country. And behold/|lfjj£&mal Pasha was greatly yjleased/ ?’.,Had he not conquer .d : not qnly , the country But‘ its iprejudicfoi of thousand years? Kemal proved hW mpdeirii. he was recently by divorniji.g‘his- wealthy wife.’ She heaps. scdi;ri Upon* her husband and what - he I has • doniedfrir Turkish women. '“Oufi-riewly emancipated women!” 'she says'.-;,?' - ’ to adopt the worst of the Occident 1 and cast off scornfully the best that Iwris in the Orient.'

.“Th£ ;oriiy visible expression of their' conception lof the, ne/w Qifer 'is *" their exotic patronage of dance halls; dances tiffin bfjgin' tvith'. supper and cortiriu: iaffi. nightV-even ll until nine o'clock .or

•%-' follofriiig morning. ‘‘ v ‘ • j “'Social*-excesses,-morbid and erratic aye makingvthe .’Fatherffind a land of hjrazen. ; yditth, a whole nation pkras-iffie-bent, dnaaniely dancing totvard the gates of'hell. f " 1 “Any' protest, tn© slightest sugges;tio.n of; sanity, the : riioßt ; ''inditect Sd* monition te - dignity,” thd* foiirief Mv’•ff&jffiß Fatsfim-. goes on, swinging ' the i|hfp, ‘“i)firigs about file doriid'emnatior 'of the mob p all thoSe approve (if ' is-übh 1 things ate reactionaries and ayt sileticed ieither by social Ostracism ,Pv violent hands, or even by the hongtridri. i " - '-* " v

' respectable old Turks haVi, lost tlielr’ and along with it ( tb©? Hay© ■ / 10St , 'theii' j ''totigoesr 'My : - former ‘ and a small' section of noisy ••s|nyile : liave \ succeeded •;j ri- a mithb^r“ : i>f. Turks’ ' i nto At the Ghazi ’is a ‘ vetita'l- - demgody ! whose coming- Our Prophet overlooked ■ to mention in our Hoi? rßook;^'■ "■ ; ' v'c I have Obeyed the' dr-ctert ; of riiy fOrtnhr lord and' htisbahd to take Up riiy feSiderice in Constantinople, bemg a woman' I feel that it is mv natural :• pf’i.yiiidgO' not"’ to' Bo'riserit 1 to n haV'’ a ’ pN3&k : %d'ri'g“ ovßr'hy r ffioufh. ’ 3

... ;Ah,’ c 'Whgt. u frew Propfiet will arise to bring back the peace df those 3e°'r old 'silken, sweetly-scented''harems? He’ll get, a 1 wolodmeP- *j