Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1921 — Page 6

Intrigue, Strange Customs Mark Life In Palatial Harem of Far Eastern Potentate

DIVORCE EASY ON BOTH SIDES WHEN DESIRED Wife, When Neglected, May Appeal to Vizier for Relief. ‘ONE ARABIAN NIGHT WRITTEN* BT ARMED HASSAV. and pVulished ©xclasively by the Times In arrangement with the tiunn;ero!it of the Circle Theater, which will present "One Arabian Night,” featuring I*oia Negri .the production to which >l. llassan refers, beginning Sunday afternoon. • * • WIAT happens In a harem? No sooner hare I been introduced to a person than that question is put to me, as it is to others who have wandered through and lived in Turkey, and who subsequentiy Tisit another part of the world where the harem has no place in the social life of the community, and is therefore the subject of much curiosity and conjecture. Hitherto l have answered that question guardedly, with the reticence any one might be expected to display when queried as to the details of his domestic affairs. What would a man in this country say were 1 to ask him intimate questions About his home life, as I might consider myself at liberty to do, since his Inquisitiveness In regard to mine in my own country amounts to the same thing? Perhaps it is to free myself from the constant questioning—perhaps to fill that looseness of my pocket causal by the depredation of my income from Turkey through adverse exchange rates—that I find myself writing what I trust will be a satisfying answer to "What happens in a harem?” First of all, I must ask. "Whose harem?” For the wealth and status of the ! husband governs the lives of the Inmates. There is the harem which bides but one wife; there is that which boasts a dozen beauties; and there is the palatial seraglio of powerful rulers and officials wherein are hundreds—wives, odalisques, slaves. WIFE STIPULATES O.W WIFE HAREM. But let me deal with the one-wife harem first. Often when a girl agrees to marry she stipulates that during her j lifetime her husband shall take no other wires. She never can exact this condition from a man of higher caste, however, and infrequently from one of her own etation in life. Though she does it ' for her own protection she thinks, it gen- j erally dooms her to Intense loneliness and ultimate disappointment. She lives apart from her husband In a household divided into tho harem and the selam11k, the former being her own domain and the latter that of the man. Rarely, however, does the husband cross the di- ' Tiding space in that role, as It is under- ■ stood here. His wife is strictly portion ; of his private life; she can have no un- j derttanding or sympathy with his bust- I ness, his hopes, his public activities;; she is merely his diversion, and because she never knows at what time her husband may visit the harem sho Is arrayed always in her best and forces perpetual : gayety in his presence lest be grow weary of her and take a rival. And despite his promise, he generally does, backed by the lega! claim, "I have | the right to love a hundred women, but \ you can love no one but me.” WIVES RAVE SOME RIGHTS, TOO. That same law places some obligations on the husband, too. If his first wife cannot get on with the other wives he may bring la to share her harem, he is required to provide her with a separate establishment. The husband is forbidden to take as wife or odalisque any slave whom his wife has brought from her father’s home, j A woman betrayed and abandoned can > Insist that the man marry her, and unless he alreajdy has four wives, and, in the event of his possession of that nnm- : ber, he must support her and her family, i Os the harems of the rulers one learns but little unless he is in a confidential position. I have, however. Just seen a motion picture, “One Arabian Night,” ! which In Its depiction of one of these seraglios should answer many questions. For the truth of its portrayal of harem habits I can vouch, haring, as a doctor, Tisited at least four of the pretentious palaces, each of which housed over a hundred wives of prominent officials. Therein the women are graded accord- | lug to caste, and, as b all countries, she of the higher caste will not recognize the woman of lower station unless that j beauty happens to win the favor of the husband. Then the favorite is in a posi- | tlon to command respect. From birth many girls are trained for the day when they will be admitted to the harem of a ruler; and even when that much-detlred object Is attained, month*, or year*, may pass before the husband becomes aware of her presence. Naturally, she exerts all her wiles, emphasises her charms, to attract him, for his favor entails supreme luxury and relief from a few minor tasks which she Is called upon to do, but which are Irksome, because the performance of any duty marks her as unfavored. In fact. If she reaches the age of 25 without being numbered among those acceptable to the master she is relegated to old-matdenhood and can be married off to some official whom the husband may wish to honor. But let her win attention and hers Is •n easy life, the only thorn In which is

Highways and By-Ways of LiT OF New York

NEW YORK, Not. 3.— Hera is an old reporter's prediction on the outcome of the city election, the reporter being Henry H. Klein, New York city commissioner of accounts: “Mayor Hylan will receive 700.000 or more votes. His opponent, Henry H. Curran, will get between 325,000 and 350,000 votes. That makes the mayor a two-to-one winner, which should establish him as ten to one betting proposition.'’ In the Wall street betting over the election contest four years ago between the late John Purroy Mitchell, the Fusion candidate and John F. Hylan. the Democratic nominee, Hylan, as has been the case this year in his fight with Curran, coalitionist, for the same office, was a strong favorite from the opening to the close of the campaign. This year, according to Richard C. Fabb, a recognized Wall street betting authority, the amount put np in the hands of the various downtown stockholders is nowhere near so large as it was four years age. Mr. Fabb estimated the sum wagered in the financial district this year at {250.009 as an outside figure. This year's odds in the financial center; which have ranged from 2-to-l on Hylan from the day following the primaries up to S l^ -to-l, the ratio now prevailing In his favor, forecast the election of the Tammanyite.

] from . horrm wlada—■ t. jftl _pw Cl J is '! ■- f !i ] j someone cause her to lo ESa 0 B I l for husband other tlmn I ■irirftW Y 1 j I)P le^vI—tali 1 —tali it Our husband adorns w‘ I it W U fctitul robes the wife I*| 6 v£/ U /“ % Bj beareth him aon and w | ! i 'o i • ' Divnrpp I<t F!n<m * rob<> " of th ISIUUI ce M 8 nutty who brlagrih unto him V i iY< ' ' Diwoe It niMj for an taitni po* duujhter. i O t t*ntat©. To u favorite wifi 000 1 & h * transfers the marriage pearls Iron Four bou „ rtay „„ ba) Cft h,,r tb *t of UU noweot love. J lur bod ioo. One hour alone H prayer to Allah suffices I our c ® n< 4'’nee. q* -

the constant supervision of the eunuch*. She is permitted to spend many hours in the perfumed bathe (this is a sort of social event). She has slaves to dress her hair and care for her skin; ber clothing becomes only of the finest; she is given every opportunity to enhance her charme In order to retain favor. The latest fad of these fastidious ladies is to dye their finger nails, not merely the ordinary pink, but In reds, yellows, bines and golds, with a tinting of tho same color on their feet to match. Perhaps those who see “One Arabian Night" wiU laugh at the idea of the grotesque eunuchs depletod there being potential enemies of the harem belles. But they are. On rare occasions senndalous tongues have whtsepnred the attachment of wife and guardian but in most cases little love is lost between these two classes unless the eunuch shows himself ready to obey the dictates of the women. They are fat and flabby creatures, their faces devoid of beard and color. To see one smile Is a rarity. They have little to smile about, for they are mocked by men and women, anfl pass through the life of the Orient as melancholy, perfumed phantoms. Some, especially those who disregard fealty to their masters and connive at the affairs of the women they guard, grow rich enough to retire to quiet villas of their own, and to harems of their own a? well, where they may enjoy feminine association on a footing different to that which they have known all their lives. No; don’t laugh at eunuchs. Pity them! Once In Scutari, a European, making

Dr. Richard Strauss, the German composer, was given a welcome today In the city hall that compared favorably with those accorded by Mayor Hylan to European diplomats and war heroes. The mayor is reaping a wonderful harvest of pre-campaign advertising from the coming of the notables, and the picture houses still have him on their screens; now grasping Admiral Beatty by the hand, then exchanging grips with Marshal Foeh, again holding General Diaz, the Italian war lord, in his grasp, and again drawing General Jacques, the Belgian hero, towards him in friendly greeting. The mayor’s luck Is running to form, and he is missing nothing that goes to attract votes from the foreign sections of the metropolis. • • • Army officials in New York are saying that when General Wood resigns as Governor General of the Philippines to become provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Col. Frank R. McCoy, who now Is in Manila with General Wood, probably will become Governor General. Colonel McCoy is Genera! Wood's choice for Vice Governor, and he was a brigadier general with the A. E. F. in France. In the event Colonel McCoy becomes Governor General, army men say Captain Leonard Wood, Jr., son of the general, ts likely to for Vice Gov-

futile efforts to gather information about our wives, asked me to take him To a divorce court. He said he had heard that divorces were frequent, and desired to see one grafted. lie expected to find, I believe. the women appearing to petition publicly with an expensive array of legal men around them. I had to disillusion him. Thera are no divorce lawyers, no courts; and the lack of both makes divorce th* cheapest thing you can procure In the mystic empire. Really, the husband has little need of I it. Growing tired of one wife, he takes another, and neglects the first. If he suspects her, the detective he employs is merely a slave who will follow her wherever she goes. Then, her faithlessness proven, he sends her back to the house of her father if he no longer desires to keep her in, his matrimonial complement. WIFE'S GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE. The harem wife has easy ledress as well. If her husband has 111 treated her once, or avoided her society over a given | period, or spoken disparagingly of ber i in the presence of others, she has grounds I for freedom. To obtain it, all she must i do is to writ* out her grievance and forward it to the vizleh. Is not this a far more humane method than that of socalleld modern countries wherein a couple may be forced to go on living in ui,happiness because the divorce laws place too close a limit? The Sultan does not divorce in tho ordinary way, however, and of this I am reminded through the ceremony I witnessed in "One Arabian Night.”

ernor. Thus when General Wood returns to America there will be a "Leonard Wood" left in the Orient. * • • Charles S. Whitman, former Governor, and the district attorney who prosecuted and convicted Police Lieutenant Charles liecker and -he four “gunmen” for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, told me today if he had been district attorney of New York County today he would have immediately subpoenaed Police Inspector John F. Dwyer for the grand Jury to tell what he says ho knows about the “Innocence of Becker." Mr. Whitman, who is practicing law, continued: “In my opinion there is no question as to the guilt of Becker who died in the electric chair. No, I do not think the proper course is for mo to proceed against Dwyer for criminal libel. If I should sue him for what he said about my conduct of the Becker case I would establish anew precedent for district attorneys." Becker was electrocuted seven or more years ago. His conviction resulted from the testimony of four former friends, who turned State’s evidence. In retiring from the police department after twentyfive years’ service to draw an annual pension of {2,450 a year, Inspector Dwyer let forth from a clear sky the statement he had evidence that Becker was “framed up.” The interesting side light of this echo of the Rosenthal murder is the present occupation of the four important witnesses for the State: Bridgie Webber is running a paper box factory in Passaic, N. J.; Sam Schepps has a Jewelry store in Broadway; Jack Rose is lecturing for the Y. M. C. A. and Harry Vnllon is in business in Brooklyn. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1921.

When anew beauty usurps In bis regard the position of his former favorite, he takes from the aeek of the latter the string of pearls of fabulous value, which denotes her rank, and places them about the shoulders of bis naw love. It Is all done quietly, without fanfare of trumpets, without even the other inmate* of the seraglio knowing for days afterward. The divorced wife is powerless to protest. The will of the ruler Is tho will of Allah. For the woman the end is ap-parent-marriage to some underling or a gradual lowering of caste In the harem Itself. WHEN THIS CAT’S AWAY. You may wonder that with all the precautions a husband takes to guard his wives they can yet find opportunity to escape vigilance long enough to enter into other engagements. But, as with women the world over, where there's a will, there’s a way. All the laws for the suppression of wives have failed to stamp out in any city in the empire the natural desire for greater freedom. And it is a nuturul desire, born in them as a spirit of revolt against long subjection. But remember this; The companionship and intercourse between wlvee of different harems lg untrammeled. They meet at the baths, perhaps In the balconies whence they watch the embassy boils; they exchange confidences; vow eternal friendship, and forward the Interests of each other. And ever the friend of the unfaithful Is the wife whose husband has advanced Ideas and does not object to her imitation of her European

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Code of Harem Verily In all the world i there but rno man, and lie 1 uur husband. • • Thrive blessed are we many vivos of our husband. for ..is\ not we divide his dlsj leasure between u? • • Beauty giveth pleasure tc our husband, but discretion If Allah's gifi to ilio wifo. • • • Our hatband lov©th the ©st wife in his Joyou* nioode but turneth unto bin lirstwt’d for his consolations. If our hus-band cannot *le*r> ;r© iile©:> not, but dance tot him. If he lh*n perchance hi unori* are our •weet applau*©, or per chan * he U but weary of our talent©. • • • A tfood wife think* only of her Master —but Allah alone can read her thoughts. 0 0 0 More to be feared i# the Chief KtmucJi’s tnle-udling tongue thu a nmd dog’s fangs. • 00 Allah gives strength to our husband and cunning to hie wives. Allah bu praised! 0 0 • Beauty fadeth like (he rose leu who *an blame our hu*bn<7 for loving freh rowh? • • • A wie wife looketh not from tho liarcm windows a* parsing struugors le*t a hand' some on© cause her to long for husband other than her own. 0 0 0 Our husband adonis with festal robe* the wife whf beareth him a on and with robes of mourning the wife who brlngc ih unto him s daughter. 0 0 0 Four hours a day we bat lie ur bodlo©. On© hour atone In prayer to Allah suffice* for our conscience.

sisters. The cocone, she is—half Christian, hnlf llussullniau. On certain festival periods the women are allowed extra liberties, such as staying out until midnight. Then, is the friendship of the eoeone particularly useful, for gha has in part renounced her faith and obeys neither Koran nor Bibie, and knows no reason why sho should refuse the hospitality of her house to a less fortunate but more orthflfiox sister just because a man not her husband happens to bo there. WAYS AND MEANS OF MATRJMONY. Yes, sly are th* women of my country. Jealous, too, sre wives of thl haram over which the mother of tho husband presides. Her dislike will often cost a beauty her son's favor, for alia can advanc ethe charms of a wife more amenable to her own wishes. But often the vanquished one will retaliate, and contrive to secure a beautiful slave and throw her In tho way of the man that the mother’s ideas may be thwarted. Perhaps a wife advanced in years and the mother of a family may find herself Jealous of her hußband whose eyes wander in the of some attractive girl of the wife’s acquaintance. Then will the schemer arrange a marriage between her eldest son and this dangerouß beauty, so that the desire's of the husband never may be fulfilled. Ah, they have their own little Intrigues I know them myself. And I can look back and recollect many things when memory la stirred by the fealty to custom and traidition of the harem revealed In the motion picture I already have mentioned —"One Arabian Night.”

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