Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — Quite Stri[?]. [ARTICLE]

Quite Stri[?].

Those who prate about tbe immorafls !ty of the Turk and of MobamnNfllM ism ought to consider for a niowuS’ just how much—or rather bovr they know about the matter. Islam d a theory may be all wrong, but practical results are often worthy*® notice. In no large city of Europe America is there so little public druaMH enness ns in Constantinople, and flflß sight of an intoxicated Turk Is almaM unknown. In this connection I BUMfli call attention to the Sultan’s rlgtcl riM against decollete and sleeveless dfeMH at the palace dinner parties. And faK me add the following literal translatiOM of a paragraph which lately in one of the Constantinople papeMM “The police have been authorized JmJ forbid the letting of apartment* to gle men in the houses of rftamboul, <ijg| pecially in those near Moslem bomem The assembling under one roof of living apart from their families is cmM trary to the usage and custom of tfeiw country. The same law is applied jM the property of foreigners, as well MH to those of Ottoman subjects.” WtaM Christian government, however, pated nal, would make such a radical mcHRM toward Improving the morals of tINH people?—Letter in Chicago Record. ■ "*