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Bodies Fails te Make Them
Turn te Moslem Religion
HOT IRON AND W HIP
FOR OBSTINATE ONES
Thousands of Captives Still
Held at Mercy of
Brutal Masters I
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NO LESS brave than the martyrs who wcre stoned and burned te death ',
ages age; no less stoical than the early Christians forced Inte the
arena te awnit deatn by liens or tigers' claws; even mere tragic than they
an the Christian girls taken uwny te the Turkish harems, who buffer
daily tortures rather than renounce their faith and become Moslems.
Treated with less consideration than the dega which belong te a
Turkish household, and bearing the sjmbel of their faith which has been
tamed into their skins by the torture of the branding iron, these girls I
wait day alter day uciuna tue cieteiy latticed windows of the harem.
Day by day and week by week of monotonous, idle existence broken
wly by the sharp pain of beatings and ill treatment and the faint raya of
t hope that they may be rescued.
But while thousands of these girls
Bvc been taken from the harems
and placed in rcecuc .-.latiens, Ihuti
lands mere arc still in captivity.
"Anything they wanted would be
given te them if they would vc vc
eunce Christianity," raid Mrs.
Pearl Larsen, who, after spending
Ue years in Asia Miner doing med
ical work in rescue stations, is new
is Philadelphia.
"We rescued thousands of girl.'', and
tkeujh we have lercn rcscue stations
ntabllshed new, there Hre litcinlly
theasanrln of ether Christian girls wbe
lave born carried by the Turki into
tieir barcins and whom we have net
rem able te rescue," she said, "and .
Biny mere stations are needed."
The Turkish women knew nothing
the but the life of the hnrem, Mr. I
Larsen said, but een te thcra It q u ,
drab, ini'frable c.ltcnce. Unhappy
they would tell her thnt she would net
he Injure.) ji ny mere if the would be
come n Moslem, but she lefused, and
le mock and scorn her they put the
sign of the cress upon her, and upon
her forehead the Mai of the owner of
the harem te denote possession.
"There wan another girl be beau
tiful, se charming, with such shy dig
nity that !.hr reminded jeu of a little
I'risellla. Pilotzeu was cupturcd when
she was ut the lhipbrutrs Scheel at J
llarpoet ami taken into the meuutnins, I
where she Has compelled te live for two!
and a half jenrs. j
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return of a Chiluthn girl who hnd It h the dulj of the Turkl&h rrlre i
escaped frrjm hie harem. I brought ue that the fhrlstlan girls de net ta
the Rlrl. but hnfere her I plu-'cd an , W,,H, frum the harrms, and If they (
American Q-tg. "Jnke her, If pu dnre, the wrath of ihn M-iirL- u nmire.l forth
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from thin protection,' I said, and with
out a word the officer turned and gave
the order for his soldiers te go away.
"Jt is a very difficult matter te es
cape from the harems,'' Mr.-.. Alrpoed
said. "Wiills eeen te nine feet hich
ctirreund them, and a Rtiard 1j con
stantly en duty at the Kate. In the
wealthier homes Hare me two guards
oeo for the tj.iy and one for the night
liut in the poorer home there ii only
one, and he h.i a little chelter iirnr
the wall where he f-leep-j. BitH of glas.-,
brush and an exchanging ledge mule
it almost impossible te set ever the
wall.
"But a fhrittlan girl Is always
ready te help nnetb'r ecape and elIlC'
times by forming human hdders or
making repm of bed clothing they ruau.
age tn get, sway. It , alwjjs danger-
Mra. Helen Alrgoed, Camden adtoel teadteT. who
directed the rescue wmk among Cltristian girla in
urnian UHrmi
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harem, hack in nntic costume
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Armenian girl branded b the Turks with the sign of the cress
and with marks denoting Turkish ownership
Mrs. Pearl Larsen, medical worker in the orphanage at Harpoot, who telln
tery of atiecities by the Turks in branding Christian women who refuse
te accept the Moslem faith
Harem girl protected from public
by traditional Turkish charf
g.uc
caus of the jealousy which exlsti
among the different wivcj of the lord
'i master of the harem, they ipewl
""efc of their time quarreling and
Wangling: their bauds and minds al-
''ays idle; prneUns Innumeruble eic-
arettea and closely eenliued In the
JBn of the harem and the muil.
Their weekly vhlt te the Vith l.t their
e"l diversion.
Average Harem Unlike
these Seen in Meuiva
The harem ittelf is far fnmi bring a
Plioe of beauty.
'The waving plumes, neb brocade,
Plashing fountains, and glistening
'Iks are teen only in the movies,"
jailed rr. Larsen. "I don't think
"! Is a barcm een iu the Sultan's
M'aee which would approach a merie
rem le beeuty. The onus I ww were
aw and uncomfortable looking the
n V ornaments of auy color and beauty
being the ruin en Mm mill nml (lie
L'ublena scattered around.
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and almost unbelleable escapes." said
lis. Larsen.
O'irls Made a Human
Ladder (or Her Escape
1 "The girls formed u human ladder,
ami Pilotzeo climbed te the top uud get
, ,i.rr Ihn u.alt. Hilt IhCTB hhe WHS In
.the mountains. It was cold. She had
1 iicj shelter, no feed, una little clothing.
i Ter weeks she reamed the mountains,
llWng almost like a little animal, bur
lowing Inte the brush, and biding
j among the rocks. Sha did net dnrn
te truwd in dajtima lest ehe be reeup-
tured, se she bid when ir was ngnt
and waited till darkuess cams before
she Hcd further away down tbe moun
tains. "At last aha found her way te the
rescue station at Harpoot and we took
ber In there. She was only fifteen when
we rescued ber she had been captured
when she was Just about twelre,
"Her family, with the exception of
her ulster, wbe was a lovely looking
ns she. bad nil been killed In the mas
sacre and she was left Blene. A mis mis
Menaiy and his ll adopted her sis
I or just bclern PiloUeo was captured,
and (neught ber te America, where abe
Is new attending one of the larga cel-
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rtocue station for ber, and when she
read of her pretty clothes, and tbe In
teresting thine t4i" was doing and see
ing, I'ilotzeo would shnkn her bend und
fay, "I am hapPJ ,ew I'0' T am free,
nij, 'I nm b.il'IO new that I am liee.
things, I de net cute fur thuse.'
"My intetpreler was it little Arme
nian girl wbe was born iu America.
Hrr father hud made money In this
country and leturned with bis family
lust UfaM the war whea Salraeubb
an orphan and after many mentha she
escaped. I found her en tbe atreats
of Mulatia, exhausted, almost starving,
half fainting, and I took her te the
ren'im elation, and from that time en
sin heinme m guide and I n I m pi , t -i
silie w.im iin ilewr .is she itiuld be, und
spoke seeial iungimgrs.
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by a Turk and held for three years.
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te reifue her A party of relief work-
,r-va going te Vignrd, Investigating , Christian
iiiiiens en the win This fill
he as luirdh mere ihnu s child
heard the noihe et the autoinebile
,i sound se curious, se new aim
strange, us she told us afterward, that
she thought something must be about
sua an
f br- hope, dn' a!mnt imbear-
geny of suspense , ulie was help-
Even ber voice left her. She
net cry out. One of the women
party succeeded In bribing the
gate-keeper te let ber In, and there
she found this girl, swaying us she
steed In tbe courtyard, her arms cut
stretched, but her elee silent Hhe
teuld net even er When the wonder
ful fact of her rcsrue was assured, tb
three years waiting and longing had
aliim-'t made Iiw i'i' ip ibb et" bellnm
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"She hud letn told that h-r fam.l,
bad been killed, all th'' Nrmeimins
I driven out of the counte, and tint
i there was no hope of ber put esmping
from the harem.
i "W hen we took ut ulth us we found
, that obe could epenk Knglish, and we
asked her hew U was that after all
these ears uway from any IlnglHb.
speaking peoples or TnglNh Inllurnec,
she stilt remembered tia Hnguage she
had learned iu school At d " Iuihm i
it te us. Phe said that nft-i ' li' weuh'
beat her and terture ber, of en for bems ,
lit a time, che would taLu a 'iUlc liiblc
which she managed te cou.eal in tlve
felda of her buruks and whisper tbe
Knglisb verses ercr and ever te k r
salf." Mra. Helen Alrgoed, M40 Media
street, who has been teaching Treneh
In the Camden High Scheel tluce her
return from Harpoot, where the web
In charge of a rescue station, alvi told
of the wmk being done te free the
girl from the hnn m-
nil
' 1 he teod vas plated ou a carved
bi i-j tray which ie.-ted en a low atoeL
I A spoon was the only tableware w
the bundle being of carved iTery
i.i cry our am out Ot IMS
ninch the eldest seu brought
te bapMS. 8b bad never sti
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American Flag Heat
Protection for Girls
"The Turks are afraid of Amene.i,
and have the greatest reaped for the
American Sag," sha aaJd. "One day
a TurHaa afloat wltfc tAaaa aekUars
aaaaa h aaillM aaat algmaM
eij 1 rea i" deiectien means almost
certain death 1 lune sen gnls tti
Mich agony of fear that the wcill
fniut even at the sight of a 'PurVi h
efilcer patflng by the rrfcuc home wht.-
they were quite eafc.
"Turks In the Interior are almost a
hw unto themselves," rbe said, "aii'l
we found thnt at n place about fuiii'
miles fi'iin where e eaablihcd n res
cue stutien thnt the nath.'s had net
heard ceu that the Ani'iuan n li :
w inkers wen1 there, Tin -pm i
le i-'datfd t list in us of tltr mitide
weii'l seiiiem ptuetratiu. uiieu we
get te the e'ty we wtre ferbiddm te
'peak te tn of the wi men, but through j
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it. jt'jiii i iiruiujrp, imii" "I idc HO' "Ini I I i, ,,i
villi our outfit ie get m teijeli villi or -lull
many of the Christians lone howl
"The Turks dn!ik te hate men ph. , " "l,b '"ch ' "f"1""? nod dignity.
siciani attend iheii women, and ,:ltidl ( H'lfCS Eut After
aceepted Dr I'armulee's offer te treat i Husbattd Is Through
tee women in i',' M'ince ler nothing
J'ln worn, ii l Ite.i lier uti. ,it 1 hi ,
nil J she Ir. lined tlirr siems an I m
weie able te aid tn nn of i In in
Wives in Interior
Cheap at 10 Cents
"Once when u roan bteught IiIj wife
tn a relief station t he treated and
was told that It would cost him ?1 1
for the operation he ehrugged his shoul
ders ntid said lit great wonder, 'Why
should I pay $14 te save u wife when I
can buy another for fertr cents'''"
"When a Christian glil escape, the
Turks nlwii.tt tn te gi i in r ba I
a lib d Mt l.nr mi ' t lite mini ..i ul
mam mi s-i ugi h in a i IniMian gnl
.I'-I.mg (liiit -he t ft it i ti te Ins linrem
but she ltd used At lat he si'itt cm
of bis Turkish wics with the Christian I around
rrt always kept In
tiiirnin during eul-
l.e
ed a 'lurk if bis
pirintttd te tbarr
I'he women
lie ir m pa' "
i i llnrt I
w in ii ight net
the meal with u
" 'Oh' nd n that your custom In
AincrleaV he asked."
" 'es,' I said 'The women always
eat with the men in my country.' ','
"re as a great concession lie par
mined his ulws te come in and aat
some fruit with us, but they remataed
standing und were net allowed te alt
down i
"If Turk takes his women te thn
fields, in. him in the shade under au
umbrilbi while thev weik, nnd in caa
one et tliem-a t'hri-llnii girl tries t
eMiipi 'Ii i I'l'iiieJn bai k mid chain
i'i '" a iij"ii und I'liinpillcd te slnj
thi'i until tin i ,ii I i i.iue, le take 1 Ii flu
bai l lieini
'tin 'I mi i Ii i urn it mi. JuHt Ilka
elnldiiii when tin i tun amused. Th
leugh and clap their hands uud sklb
w one baraaa
I lemeinher
glrra baby te plead for her return, but S04vWJltl(, ta,?J1, wa
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Lara aha anlm aanllrf that A mU .""""..""."."" n.
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iaw go eacx na ler caa aaia n ua ewid.
"Divorce Is mch a simple pfeeeaa
with thorn, ' she continued. "AU ft
Turk- has le de is te caj , 'Leave mV
house,' or. without even speaking, brlnf
the slippers of his wife and place tbenf
In front of her, nnd she is compelled tJ
go b.n k tn her own home. If he repoeta
of his 'dherce' he cannot bring tbe'
woman huek until after she hua baeti
nmrried le another man. Then it li
all right for him te take another man's
wife baek te his harem, but net big
own diwireed wife! n
, "Ien the tioerer ebis.-es of Turks
haf taken the Christian girls into tbelr
harems, tine camel entitles a man tfe
two wives, iici-erdiiig le their cede, j
have teen l hrlstlan girla bciug sold If
the tuarket places," she said. "W
tacd many of them, but tbcre wera
many we were belple te aid. J
1 "The rescue, stations nre usually col
lege buildings we have taken ever,'
said Mrs. Larsen. "Wc had about 000
'girls at Harpoot. They lived thesi
1 nil the time, of course. Seme of thei
taught in our orphanage. Others dip
the cooking and tbe housework. Bi(t
tLcy all had work of some kind te de
a
whatever they bad been accustomed
te doing. If it was weaving or hand hand
eorkmany of them de exquislte hand.' hand.'
werkthey de that. That ie tbe differ,"
ence between the Armenian and Turk
ish women. The Armenian woman al
ways weike, nttd the Turkish webm&
never deeH if i,hc can avoid It. I
Weekly Bath Really I
Ceremony for Turks I
"The Turkish weman'c enlr form it
t recreation is her visit te the hatha ones
a week. 'I he:c baths ere dirty anil
, dark, net beautiful at nil, as we arc
accustomed te picture them. Tbe baths
i last irtuallj all dey; tbe women pour
1 ing the water, which sprays continn centinn
, ally, evir their bodies, always pouring
from the top of the head. They thlnic
we nre very uncleau because wc bathe
in water which i- net running. Tfcey
'ie en the het atones, and then they
will bathe again
"The richer Turki semi their women
iu carriages: the poorer class are com
pelled te walk. U ia reully u ceremony
a sort of parade this going te the
baths. The Turks tuke great pride In
decorating their women with all sorts
of jewelry and ernaincntv all of which
an- ictited Thetn nre stores for that
purpose, uud ence the women are safely
buck in the harem the Jewelry is strip
ped from them and returned te tha
renter, liracelets, anklets, chains the
women are almost covered with then,
but few of them are valuable they arr
I just bits of rolered etenes aud chains
j of brass;.
, "We weie aln.ivs treated with tba
gtniesi cetirtfsj when wc visited in
Turkish home!," r!.,d Mrc Larsea.
"but the women were never permitted
te apptar. The hied of the beuse acted
iu our gracious heM, and the eldest
"ii served us the meal. There were
often twelve courier and the greatest
Itgnity and ceremeuv was observed.
I from the terving of the toffee and"
he mined "the offering of cigarette
ihe minute we get in the house te the
I serving of the last course of fruit. The
I oe flee was brought in tups of 'Dngine'
j of thniist china with silver and brenrs
hoi I'-ri. nd they eat cucumbers just
a- in would a banana only skill aud
her Ufa
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t sha weula chr tern yagga
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