Scribner´s Magazine, 1887, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Scribner´s Magazine, 1887, Vol. 15 Beyond the limits of the business quarter and the neighborhood of the public offices and ministerial buildings, Constantinople is one of the quietest cities in the world. The Turk´s home life seems mysterious to the European, though there is much less real secrecy about it than might be supposed. In the East, as elsewhere, the house-servants gather together, gossip, and tell each other what their masters have for dinner, how often their mistresses dye their hair with henna, lose their tempers, and get into debt in the bazaar. But though all these things go on, as they do wherever human beings are gathered together, the closed doors and latticed windows of the long narrow streets present an impenetrable front. As one leaves the centre of business, going westward, there are fewer women to be seen, and the veils, strange to say, are more closely drawn about the face. The great Turkish quarter stretches through the midst of the city in the direction of the Adrianople Gate and the Kahriye Mosque. The houses are mostly but two stories high, and in every stage of preservation. A solid brick or stone dwelling with projecting balconies, dazzlingly whitewashed and immaculate as to its doorstep, is followed by a tumble-down wooden cottage so distorted by the yielding of its timbers in all directions as to disturb an ordinary man´s theories of possible stability. Next, perhaps, comes a low, open shed, kept by a cobbler, a small tailor, or a coffee-seller. Beyond that, the rusty grating of a public fountain or a tiny burial-ground not five yards square, the tall, weather-beaten head-stones leaning and lying in all directions like jackstraws. Then more dwellings, straight or crooked, a little mosque, another coffee-shop, a cross street and two or three sturdy horses held by skinny boys to be hired as cabs are in other cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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