Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Nice Turkish Customs. [ARTICLE]

Nice Turkish Customs.

It is said by a correspondent of the London Telegraph that the habits of the Turkish ladies in Constantinople are wonderfully fastidious. When they wash their hands at a tap from which water runs into a marble basin, they let the water run till a servant shuts it off, as to do this themselves would make them unclean. They cannot open or shut a door, as the handle would be unclean. One of these fastidious ladies was talking to a small niece the other day, who had just received a present of a doll from Paris. By and by the child laid the doll on the lady’s lap. She was horrified, and ordered the child to take it away. As the little girl would not move it, and no servant was near, and the lady would be defiled by touching a doll that had been brought from abroad, the only thing she could think of was to jump up and let the doll fall. It broke in pieces. The same lady will not open a letter coming by post, but a servant opens it and holds it near for her to read. If her handkerchief falls to the ground it is immediately destroyed or given away, so that she may not again use it. Among the men this curious state of things does not exist. —Youth’s Companion' Pi so’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as • cough cure.—J. W. O Bfubh, 822 Third Ava, N., Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. 6. 1900. You can’t judge a man’s business capacity by his belt-line measurement. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Bend for FREE 52.00 trial bottle and treatise. Db. R. H. Klink. Ltd.. 931 Arch BL. Philadelphia, Pa. Where there’s marriage without love there will be love without marriage.