Canadian Valley News. (Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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memories, he asked me how I would
like to see Philadelphia adhere to the
customs of huiidreds of years ago, all
for the sake of being picturesque.
There are few travelers that get to
this out-of-the-way corner of the earth,
but those that come a few years
hence, on the Ragdad railway, will
find the bazars gilded, the streets
named and the hcises numbered, and
a policeman standing under the elec-
■agdad, Cit" of .. - tric "Kht at the corn«T to ask the
, ce' Now Trans- business of every amateur Raschld.
OLDE&
NATIONS
4y ormed—The New Era In Turkey I
Making Over the Home of "The
Arabian Nights" Tales
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Bagdad, Turkey.—All that Is ro-
mantic and oriental Is embodied In
the name Bagdad. Over this city once
ruled Haroun er Raschld, the caliph
or the Immortal "Arabian Nights."
Here Persia and India meet with Ara-
bia and Syria and Turkey proper,
e a handful of foreigners repre-
sent the western trade and ideas that
•re so rapidly conquering the Kast
A few of the old buildings, dating
back to the time of the caliphs, re-
main. but they are rapidly making
way for more modern structures The
narrow streets, and the changeless
bazars are still here—but they are
changing ft is now posHble to ride
<n a carriage from one end of Itag-
dad to the other, if one knows the
streets; and this would have been Im-
possible In the days when Haroun
tnd his grand vizier prowled about
l the narrow and tortuous and mysterl-
*• ous highways.
A new Haroun is on the scene, and
making changes so rapidly that the
Arabs who come to town after an In-
terval of only a year, rub their eyes
and cry in amazement, "Ma'sh
Allah!" The most obvious of the
transformations being wrought by
Nazini Pasha, the new Vail, or gover-
nor. is the driving of a modern high-
way straight through the center of
the city The dust of demolition fills
the air, for nothing stands beforo the
march of progress. • Legal technicali-
ties may not preserve a man's home,
If It is on the line ef the new high-
ways.
Nazlm Pasha has autocratic author-
ity. He refused to accept the post un-
til he was given a tree hand over all
the afTairs of the city and the desert
rouud about. His word is law. He has
'
The Persecuted Heiress.
This Is still thj Hast, and then,
are enough unusual Incidents to be
met with In the course of a week to
satisfy an observer. Justice is still
done on some other basis than that of
the West. A certain Armenian
maiden, fair of face, favored of for
tune, and an orphan, has been experi-
encing llagdad law of late. She want-
ed to be protected from her relatives.
Who were trying to steal her fortune.
She took her case to the authorities
atirt turned over the papers. The au-
thorities In turn gave them to the
girl's enemies. Likewise the ma-
chinery of the law wbb used to try to
marry her to the Armenian secretary
of a certain great man. presumably
for the great man's purposes. The
maiden fled to that haven of the dis-
tressed In the Kast, the British, and
she was smuggled out of the country
to India, where she now is, the Hag
dad officials meanwhile making all
possible effort to compel her return.
Another episode, of a pleasanter
kind, came to my observation while
here. I had brought down the Tigris
river with me an Armenian peasant,
who was glad to service to a re
i where there Plight be a chance
foi "ork. He was an Armenian mas-
sacre phan, of the 1896 crop, and his
whole family, he believed, had been
'lain at that time. He had not been
in Bagdad a week before he discov-
ered that his older brother had
caped destruction as marvelously as
himself and was living In the city, as
confidential servant to a wealthy com-
patriot. This rich man was so affect-
ed by the strange reunion that he took
my servant under his wing also, thus
assuring his future. I learned the
story when my servant appeared clad
In full European raiment, a veritable
"effendi."
American Strays In Bagdad.
There is no native-born American cit-
izen in Bagdad, and only one natural-
proper inquiries from enterprising
nationals who would extend the coun-
try's trade Into remote parts. As the
"ultima thule" of civilization, Bagdad
Is chosen by many of these Inquirers,
whose knowledge is not always equal
to their spirit of enterprise. One
American manufacturer wanted to in-
troduce the garter business Into Bag-
dad; but the peoplo do not use hose.
Another was keen on making a mar-
ket for American bathroom fixtures;
but there are probably not a dozen
modern bathrooms in all the Turkish
empire, outside of Constantinople,
with its few modorn hotels. Still an-
other wanted to sell sanitary appli-
ances, which, it must be admitted, are
' orely needed, but not wanted at all.
\ not her wished to be In early on the
toothpick market; but the natives
have a natural toothpick, a thorn,
which they mlglit profitably export.
Others wish to sell electrical appli-
ances, when Bagdad Is rejoicing over
the introduction of oil lamps. In a
word, the backwardness and barren-
ness of life in this part of the world
Is beyond the Imagination of tho west-
erner. Nor do they reckon the worth
of the consul's time. On man wrote
from America for postage stamps and
a list of the edible Ilsh in the Tigris
river. Mr. Levack courteously sent
him a few stamps—and then got an
angry reply for not sending that list
of ilsh!
For agricultural machinery; for a
strong, simple oll-englne pump, to take
the place of the antiquated water-
lifts, for Irrigation purposes; for a
windmill that will work and stand
rough usage; for tools and simple
articles of household convenience,
America may find a market here, in
exchange for the oriental rugs, hides,
HE first Is a pretty simple dross
for a girl of sixteen years; It Is
made In obi iu e cashmere, with
collar, waist-band and cuffs of
wool and dates which Bagdad ships to °' the same color; the right front
Styles For Girls
Mjr
A -mV
m
America in large quantities
Successive American consuls have
resigned this post because una Lin to
live on the salnry, which is less than
a fifth of what the British resident
gets. The post is a hard one from the
climatic standpoint. In summer the
people live underground In "serdtibs,"
which are nothing less than furnished
cellars, where the punkah flaps to agl- Is 'shown
tate tho oppressive heat. The German j Hjik.
invasion has made the little company
of less than half a hundred Britons
work hard for their not very princely
livelihoods, so that there is compara-
tively little diversion to this exile.
One of the lmerestlng places in
Bagdad is the ant.quated Jewish syna-
gogue, which is so old that tho rabbis
do not know its age. It looks it. And
It Is not a magnificent ruin, but a
squalid, dirty old place, littered with
torn matting and rugs, with a more
respectable court adjoining in which
some of the rabbis live. The meanest
of synagogues in America is tiner
thn this. And it is probably dea-
ls cut in a point that wraps over tlie
left, it is fastened by hooks and oyes
and ornamented with silk-covered but-
tons and loops. The vest and under-
sleeves are of Ivory piece lace.
Materials required: 4 yards HI Inches
wide, yard silk 1!2 Inches wide, X
yard lace IS Inches wide.
A dress for a tiny girl of four years
next. It Is In s]Mitted Jap
| The top of Ixidlce Is finely tuckei^,
the ends of the links being covered
by lace Insertion that gives the effect
j of a rouud yoke; the nock is also tin-
! ished with insertion,
I The skirt Is gathered below tho
waist-line, and the gathers are cover-
j ed by an Insertion-trimmed band; wid-
•er insertion finishes tho foot.
Materials required; 3 yards .10
\ inches wide, about 1 yards insertion
The third Is a simple dresB of print-
j ed delaine for girl of eight to ten
I years; the Magyar bodice Is short-
walsted at sides and la cut with u
•deep point both front and back, the
points, square-cut neck and sleeves are
trimmed with Insertion.
The skirt is gathered und laid under
The British Consulate at Bagdad.
control over the revenues and over
the army. He was authorized to
make his own tprms with the Arabs
and all the tribes have "come in" and
promised to be good. I can testify to
tho quiet and good order which now
prevail in this famously turbulent re-
gion. After traversing a considerable
portion of the desert I can report (hat
no violence was offered, nor did I hear
aught else than that everything is
quiet—though "how long even the
strong hand of Nazlm Pn«ha can keep
it so is a matter of conjecture, for
the Arab is a restless aud lawless per-
son by nature.
Making an Army Overnight.
The rag tag and bobtail which used
to pass for an army in Bagdad has
been caricatured times without num-
ber. The men were literally in rags.
They went barefooted. They were
mostly without weapons. Ill-fed, ill-
paid, ill-treated, they made more trou-
ble than they quelled. Now almost
overnight, Nazlm Pasha has changed
all this. He has organized an entirely
new army, with progressive Young
Turk officers and foreign drill-mas-
ters. He has made in Bagdad the
unifotms which all of them now wear,
and he has equipped every man with
a modern rifle. He Is also taking the
weapons out of the hands of the peo-
ple generally, so that only the repre-
sentatives of the law shall be armed
The soldiers are becoming "smart" In
appearance and discipline. Their set-
ting-up exercises are as rigorous as
those of the German army.
There is need.* For no one knows
when the fires that are forever smoul-
dering in the desert may break forth
Into flame, and the revolt In the Yemen
may spread any day to this region.
Aa it is, some inter-tribal fighting has
to be winked at. A despot must have
at hand means to execute his decrees.
The terror that now fills the lawless
*t, mention of Nazlm Pasha's name
Jflot be allowed to diminish.
A benevolent despot is the new
governor. He la resolved to bring in
law and order, and to establish the
western civilization. It used to lie
that robberies and attacks upon pedes-
trians were of nightly occurrence In
the city. Last month there were only
lour cases of robbery and the culprits
were arrested. When I spoke to
Nazim Pasha of the regret that the
<orid will fee! over the loss of the
ancient Bagdad, with Its romantic
Ized, a dentist. The consulate is vacant,
except for a very efficient vice-consul,
Mr. James Levack, a Briton. But be
Is called to stand sponsor for various
wanderers who claim the protection
of the American flag. The latest Is a
man who Is soldiering in a missionary
hospital, claiming to be both the
Messiah and an American citizen
The latter clalin has been proved
logus, so the eonsulate is relieved of
him.
Recently ono of Sir William Will-
cocks' engineers telegraphed from
village in the desert that a party of
Americans were destitute there, hav-
ing been robbed by the Arabs. Ro-
lief was straightway sent and the
people brought to this city. The party
comprised a man, his wife and his
grown-up daughter, from Oklahoma,
who had set out to the Holy Land and
Ihe Far East to convert the heathen.
They were of one of the peculiar sects
that believe in going out on faith, and
so the family had beaten its way from
point to point. Tho story of their
having been robbed by the Arabs
proved to have been a pious fiction to
secure relief. The consulate fed and
sheltered the family for a time—and'
the man was fastidious as to food—and
then sent them on to Bosra, where the
mis.ionarles sent them on to India.
Thus, by being passed on from point to
point, the beggars will really accom-
plish a Journey around the world. Of
course they attempted no mission
work; like some more pretentious en-
terprises, they considered their own
upkeep and comfort the principal
charge upon what funds they could se-
cure.
Various persons "working" their wav
around the world on a wager get to
Bagdad. One Canadian undertook to
go around the world on roller-skates,
and he asked the consulates to sign
his papers attesting his presence. But
when It was suggested that he give a
roller-skating exhibition, as a means
of rai.-ing money, instead of begging
It outright, bo naively confessed that
he had left his roller skates behind,
several months before, but that he ex-
pected to get another pair before he
reached Canada. A Frenchman was
"walking" around the world, and be
left the raft that was bearing him to
Bagdad, a few miles above the city,
that he might enter on foot but be
was never Leard of again.
The troubles of the consuls are var-
ious Their business is to answer all
tined to be succeeded by a better, for
the chief rabbi told me with pride of
the success of the youtig Jews who
have gone to America, and or the In-
creased prosperity that Is coming to
the Bagdad Jews. He says that he
does not believe in a colonization of )
the Jews in Palestine or Mesopota- j
mia; let them go to America or Great i
Britain, the real promised land. He J
also told me that two thousand of the
young men of his community are !
learning to speak English, for that Is
to be the language of their new life, paper is accompanied by long and
None the less, ihe Jews in France narrow envelopes in which the folded
have helped to build two large schools si"are sheet fits. Styles In dies
for the boys and girls of their faith in change with other fashions that gov-
this city, and the school buildings are ern correct writing-patter. The most
tho finest in Bagdad. popula^ monogram die today Is clrcti-
the edge of the bodice and Is turned
up at I lie foot with a deep hem.
Materials required: HV4 yards 28
inches wide.
Next Is for a girl of the same age;
it Is carried out In plaid washing silk,
made In pinafore style with strappings
of plain silk. The front Is laid In a
wide box plait the entire length. The
utnler-sllp Is In muslin all-over em-
broidery, cut Magyar. Silk covered
buttons are sewn In the points of tho
strn|s anil waistband.
Materials required: yards silk
22 Inches wide, yard plain silk, 1
yard embroidery IS Inches wide for
slip.
In the last we have a simple white
serge dress fur a girl of ten to twolv^
years. The skirt ! •« a panel back
and front laid on In wide wrapyed
seams; folds of crosswise silk stand
out . u h side of lower pari of panels.
The bodice Is tucked In a line fo
give the effect of a continuation of the
panel, and folds of the striped silk
stand out over the shoulders, half-way
down both front and back; a small
piece of silk Is let In at the front; it
is arranged for Ihe stripes to form
points In center.
llat of dark blue straw, trluimod
with ribbon.
Materials required for the dress:
yards 40 inches wide, % yard
stripi d silk.
FASHION IN WRITING PAPER
Long, Narrow Envelope in Which
Folded Square Sheet Fits Is
the Tt?3de at Present.
Practically nil fashionable writing-
PRETTY BLOUSE.
The Jews in Bagdad have been
very poor, and a people suffering
affliction. They havo been in igno-
rance, in consequence, and even the
rabbis are not very learned. I had
a conference with several as to the
identity of the Jews up and down
Mesopotamia, who must number sev-
eral thousand, if not millions. There
are from sixty to a hundred thousand
in Bagdad alone. The old men agreed
that ah tho twelve tribes, from both
the early captivities of the children of
Israel, have remained to this day in
these regions where they were once
taken captive. There are also great
numbers across the border in Persia.
Thus the mystery of the "lost ten
tribes" ceases to be a mystery; the
Jews are still here, and now sharing
in the new awakening of this oldest
corner of the world.
(Copyright, 1311, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
lnr in form, with the circle usually in-
dicated by tho shape of the letters.
Another popular die is diamond-
shaped, and is placed in the middle of
a page at the top. Drop letters, too,
especially in script type, retain thoir
popularly, but are now made long,
very narrow, and more decorative,
with linked and interlaced letters.
Indeed, Interlaced letters are the rule
In new dies, and the latest designs
look Ilk* Egyptian hieroglyphics rath
er than any letters known to this
continent and century.—Harper's Ba-
zar.
Yours for uni-
formity.
Yours (or great-
est leavening
power.
Yours fir nfver
falling results.
Y«nirs for purity.
Yours for economy.
Yours for every-
th thr.t gixs to
' up a strictly
hi^h grade, ever-
dope^dabie baking
povdtr.
That UC* I timet. Try
it once and note the im-
provement in your bak-
ing. Srn how much more
economical over the high-
priced trust brands, how
much better than tho cheap
and big-can kinds.
Calumet is highest in quality
—moderate in cost.
Received Highest Award-
World's Pure Food
Expoaitioiu
m
Evening Thlnqs Up.
He was a sturdy little chap, Just
turned three, and his manners were
so mature that the man on the porch
next door stopped reading to listen
to the very sophisticated play of the
up-to-date young man and his five year
old sister. They plf y^d at telephoning
und going for automobile rldeu; they
Imitated the chug-chug of a motor boat
and babbled freely of monoplanes and
aircraft generally and the man, while
interested, was disappointed too.
There are uo more babies, he told
himself, nothing but a lot of junior me-
chanicians. That young one ought to
be talking of alleys and realers and
kites and tops.
Just at this stage the offending ore
walked over and said: "Please, milter,
put the 'lastic of my hat under my
chin right I want to dress up an'
play I'm taking Hope to the theatre,"
and the man cheered up immediately
t!t,d did as he was bidden, for a youth
who took his sister out to spend the
evening with his " 'lastic" under his
chin wasn't such a doddering old gen-
tleman after all.
BIBS ARE PRETTILY SHAPED
Accepted Form Has Been Proved to
Be Capable of Many Dainty
T ransformations.
Fashion does not sdmit of much lati-
tude In th« form of a bib, but II Is the
fancy now to vary the accepted form
as much a* possible, maklnt? triangular
and pointed-shaped ends, and as new
an outline a« possible. One triangular
style is prettily finished with three
rows of narrow lace. The fine top
piece Is sewed to Its thlek lining be-
neath the second row of lace. Even
rubber bibs have become attractive,
and are thin and soft to the truch,
with a finish 011 the outer side like a
fine weave of figured nainsook. It Is
customary to baste these thin rubber
bibs beneath fancy ones of thin ma-
terial, although It is an open question
whether rubber Is a good thing to lay
over a babv'* chest —Harper's liazar.
This blouse, which Is cut Magyar, 1b
In pale mauve foulard dotted with a
darker shade; the collar an cuffs are
of Paisley patterne d foulard of the
same allude of mauve.
The ve t H(,| collar-band are of
tucked white nlnon with frill of same
down the front.
Materials required: 114 yards 42
inches wide, yard Paisley pattern
24 Inches wide, % yard nlnon 40
Inches wide.
A Great Romancer.
"What is Dobbleigh's general repu-
tation for veracity, Blldad?" asked
Hlckenlooper.
"Well, It's this way." said Blldad,
"If Dobblelgh could write the way he
talks he'd have Sir William Scott and
Alexander Dumas lushed " the maet."
Harper's Weekly.
Shoes of Two Colors.
Shoes made of two colors are very
fashionable both for evening and aft-
ernoon wear In Paris. The fronts and
heels are made of one color, usually
black patent leather or white kid
The vatnp of the shoe which has
straps like a sandal, matches the
gown In color and is usually of velvet.
Shoes of this sort, with the vamp of
purple velvet atid purple stucklngs,
are worn with black costumes
To Dress the Hair.
Among the most artistic coiffures Is
one In which the hair is draped In an
undulating fashion, so aB to cover the
ears. With this jroes the wide silver
fillet, which encircles the head, while
at tho back two or three soft curls
droop can le sly from Ihe band of sli-
ver. A fssliion that finds favor with
some women is the wearing of a
head band of colored ribbon, embroid-
ered with beads of all shades. Tiny
wreaths of pink rosea with pearl cen-
ters are favored by the young girl,
and a plain ribbon band tied In it
small bew at the side Is very attrac
live and youthful.
The College Girl's Blanket.
Let the college girl who is to fur-
niab her own blanket and desires the
college monogram or letters on It,
choose a blanket whose border Is one
of the college colors and then cut
from broadcloth letters of the other
color and applique them on the bor-
der. Or choose an ail wlilte blanket
and apply the letters In the college
colors In either linen or silk.
Higher Boots.
Tlultoncd boots lor -.miking are Sapphire Chains.
higher this yar than they ever were !,ong. flat chains of sapphires are
borore, and tbcwill probably bo likely to be much in vogue during the
known by tlj. ir button length, as are , autumn to harmonize with some of the
the long, sle t and medium gloves, j tones of blue that v/III be used for
These extra high sbo -i go more than dinner gowns eiprtsjed In velvet atm
ha'.' way up to the knee.
, soft satin.
Winter Fishing
in South Texas
You can fish and get some-
thing more than "bites"—you
can fill your game bag without
half trying, along the Gulf Coast
of Texas.
You can spend every day
out in the open, under sunlit
F.kies ... d enjoy to your fill the
fresh, pure air that md.es tho
Winter in South I cxas some-
thing you can look back upon
with rare delight
I -et me send you a dc3yip-
tive booklet and tell you about
the low fares to Texas this
Winter. Address
W. S. Si George,
Csueral Passenger Agent
St. Louis, Mo. g
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H. KEMPNER
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