Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Turkish Bath Money. [ARTICLE]

Turkish Bath Money.

Among the Turks bath’money forms an item in every marriage contract, the husband engaging to allow his wife a certain sum for bathing purposes. If it be withheld she has only to go before the Cadi and turn her slipper upside down. If the complaint be not redressed it is ground for divorce.