[5] Prayer which all devout Moslems say before beginning a work.
[6] Hanoum = Turkish lady.
[7] The answer to such an observation is obvious, but I prefer to present the Hanoum’s anecdote as she gave it.—G.E.
[8] Tcharchafs = cloak and veil worn by Turkish women when walking out of doors.
[9] Muezzins = the religious teachers amongst the Mohammedans, whose duty it is five times a day to ascend the minaret and call the faithful followers of Mohammed to prayer from the four corners of the earth.
[10] Hodja = teacher of the Koran.
[11] Babouche = Turkish slippers without heels.
[12] Chalvar = Turkish pantaloons, far more graceful than the hideous harem skirts, which met with such scant success in this country.
[13] Enturi = the tunic, heavily embroidered, which almost covered the pantaloons.
[14] The Western governesses, in so many cases, took no interest in their pupils’ reading, and allowed them to read everything they could lay their hands on. With their capacity for intrigue, they smuggled in principally French novels of the most harmful kind. Physical exercise being impossible to work off the evil effects of this harmful reading, the Turkish woman, discontented with her lot, saw only two ways of ending her unhappy existence—flight or suicide; she generally preferred the latter method.