﻿CONSTANTINOPLE 
  TODAY 
  

  

  655 
  

  

  The 
  Red 
  Cross 
  has 
  established 
  147 
  in- 
  

   stitutions, 
  given 
  a 
  dinner 
  a 
  day 
  to 
  thou- 
  

   sands, 
  clothed 
  ten 
  thousand 
  men 
  and 
  

   unnumbered 
  women 
  and 
  children, 
  and 
  

   equipped 
  a 
  hospital 
  and 
  training 
  school 
  

   for 
  nurses. 
  

  

  The 
  Near 
  East 
  Relief 
  has 
  opened 
  two 
  

   hospitals 
  and 
  fifty 
  children's 
  clinics, 
  sup- 
  

   plied 
  visiting 
  nurses 
  and 
  work 
  for 
  hun- 
  

   dreds 
  of 
  refugee 
  women, 
  established 
  five 
  

   Armenian, 
  six 
  Greek, 
  and 
  many 
  Russian 
  

   camps, 
  and 
  placed 
  56,000 
  children 
  in 
  or- 
  

   phanages 
  and 
  tuberculosis 
  hospitals. 
  Be- 
  

   sides, 
  this 
  organization 
  has 
  sent 
  enormous 
  

   food 
  supplies 
  to 
  devastated 
  areas. 
  

  

  Refugees 
  have 
  poured 
  into 
  Constanti- 
  

   nople 
  in 
  veritable 
  rivers 
  of 
  humanity. 
  

   Populations 
  of 
  entire 
  villages 
  — 
  Greeks, 
  

   Armenians, 
  Russians, 
  Jews, 
  Turks, 
  Geor- 
  

   gians, 
  Azerbaijans 
  — 
  have 
  reached 
  the 
  city 
  

   penniless, 
  there 
  to 
  live 
  in 
  open 
  streets, 
  in 
  

   camps, 
  on 
  the 
  ruined 
  walls, 
  in 
  huts 
  made 
  

   of 
  boxes, 
  in 
  discarded 
  army 
  tents. 
  

  

  Their 
  numbers 
  are 
  appalling. 
  For 
  in- 
  

   stance, 
  158,000 
  Russians 
  alone 
  came 
  to 
  

   Constantinople 
  up 
  to 
  October, 
  1920. 
  

   Most 
  of 
  them 
  came 
  down 
  with 
  Wrangel's 
  

   army 
  from 
  the 
  Crimea, 
  packed 
  so 
  tightly 
  

   in 
  small 
  boats 
  that 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  died 
  and 
  

   others 
  were 
  born, 
  in 
  an 
  upright 
  position. 
  

   All 
  but 
  45,000 
  of 
  these 
  have 
  been 
  sent 
  

   away 
  into 
  Rumania 
  and 
  Bulgaria, 
  where 
  

   there 
  may 
  be 
  food 
  for 
  them. 
  Those 
  re- 
  

   maining 
  have 
  lived 
  as 
  they 
  could. 
  

  

  One 
  enterprising 
  young 
  refugee 
  put 
  elec- 
  

   tric 
  lights 
  in 
  the 
  Basilica 
  Cistern, 
  to 
  the 
  

   left 
  of 
  Sancta 
  Sophia, 
  and 
  now 
  charges 
  

   half 
  a 
  Turkish 
  pound 
  to 
  row 
  visitors 
  once 
  

   around 
  the 
  beautiful 
  dim 
  spaces. 
  This 
  

   cistern 
  was 
  built 
  by 
  Constantine 
  the 
  Great 
  

   and 
  contains 
  336 
  pillars. 
  

  

  Dwellers 
  in 
  the 
  houses 
  above 
  have 
  made 
  

   holes 
  in 
  the 
  flooring, 
  through 
  which 
  they 
  

   let 
  down 
  pails 
  on 
  a 
  cord 
  and 
  use 
  the 
  cis- 
  

   tern 
  water 
  for 
  purposes 
  which 
  may 
  be, 
  

   despite 
  appearances, 
  cleansing. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  WRANGEL 
  LIVED 
  ON 
  A 
  YACHT 
  

  

  Following 
  their 
  escape 
  from 
  the 
  Bol- 
  

   sheviks 
  in 
  the 
  Crimea, 
  General 
  and 
  Bar- 
  

   oness 
  Wrangel 
  lived 
  on 
  a 
  yacht, 
  belonging 
  

   to 
  the 
  former 
  Russian 
  embassy, 
  which 
  

   was 
  anchored 
  in 
  the 
  Sea 
  of 
  Marmora. 
  A 
  

   short 
  time 
  ago 
  the 
  yacht 
  was 
  mysteriously 
  

   sunk, 
  but 
  the 
  General 
  and 
  his 
  family 
  es- 
  

   caped 
  injury. 
  The 
  remainder 
  of 
  the 
  Gen- 
  

   eral's 
  army 
  camped 
  for 
  a 
  time 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  shores 
  of 
  the 
  Dardanelles. 
  Many 
  of 
  the 
  

   men 
  were 
  highly 
  trained 
  engineers, 
  pro- 
  

   fessors, 
  students, 
  lawyers, 
  and 
  doctors. 
  

   General 
  Wrangel 
  arranged 
  to 
  have 
  these 
  

   men 
  placed 
  in 
  Bulgaria 
  and 
  Jugo-Slavia, 
  

   either 
  in 
  private 
  life 
  or 
  as 
  frontier 
  guards, 
  

   with 
  the 
  hope 
  that 
  some 
  day 
  they 
  would 
  

   be 
  able 
  to 
  return 
  to 
  Russia 
  to 
  serve 
  as 
  the 
  

   nucleus 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  intelligentsia. 
  

  

  THE 
  "ROMANTIC" 
  NEAR 
  EAST 
  IS 
  DEALT 
  A 
  

   DEATH 
  BEOW 
  

  

  The 
  freeing 
  of 
  the 
  Moslem 
  woman 
  

   from 
  the 
  most 
  binding 
  of 
  her 
  fetters 
  came 
  

   with 
  such 
  rapidity 
  that 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  

   has 
  not 
  yet 
  heard 
  about 
  it. 
  The 
  visitor 
  

   to 
  Constantinople 
  who 
  expects 
  to 
  see 
  ro- 
  

   mantically 
  veiled 
  women 
  coquetting 
  from 
  

   beneath 
  perfumed 
  chiffon 
  is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  

   disillusioned 
  about 
  twenty 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  

   pier, 
  when 
  he 
  catches 
  his 
  first 
  sight 
  of 
  

   feminine 
  Turkey 
  in 
  the 
  person 
  of 
  a 
  street- 
  

   sweeper 
  in 
  ragged 
  black 
  trousers 
  and 
  a 
  

   dusty 
  coat. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  about 
  the 
  only 
  civic 
  job 
  open 
  to 
  

   women 
  as 
  yet, 
  although 
  they 
  are 
  em- 
  

   ployed 
  in 
  banks 
  and 
  offices. 
  Curiously, 
  

   there 
  are 
  no 
  stenographers, 
  for 
  Turkish 
  

   is 
  in 
  itself 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  shorthand 
  and 
  easily 
  

   written. 
  The 
  Europeans 
  employ 
  Greek 
  

   women 
  as 
  stenographers 
  and 
  typists. 
  

  

  Only 
  a 
  few 
  old-fashioned 
  women, 
  

   mostly 
  in 
  Stamboul, 
  now 
  wear 
  the 
  veil 
  

   part 
  of 
  their 
  national 
  headdress 
  over 
  their 
  

   faces. 
  Yet 
  even 
  with 
  the 
  comparative 
  

   freedom 
  they 
  now 
  enjoy, 
  and 
  the 
  disap- 
  

   pearance, 
  for 
  economic 
  reasons, 
  of 
  the 
  

   harems, 
  there 
  are 
  curious 
  survivals 
  of 
  old 
  

   customs. 
  

  

  One 
  is 
  the 
  law 
  forbidding 
  Turkish 
  men 
  

   and 
  women 
  to 
  appear 
  together 
  at 
  a 
  public 
  

   place 
  of 
  entertainment, 
  be 
  they 
  husband 
  

   and 
  wife, 
  brother 
  and 
  sister, 
  or 
  mother 
  

   and 
  son. 
  A 
  woman 
  may 
  go 
  to 
  the 
  

   "movies" 
  with 
  another 
  woman 
  and 
  sit 
  in 
  

   a 
  section 
  reserved 
  for 
  women 
  only. 
  

  

  1 
  asked 
  the 
  manager 
  of 
  the 
  cinema 
  near 
  

   the 
  remains 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  Petits 
  Champs 
  

   Cemetery 
  if 
  many 
  Turkish 
  women 
  came 
  

   to 
  his 
  theater. 
  

  

  "No, 
  and 
  I 
  don't 
  want 
  any 
  of 
  them 
  

   here," 
  he 
  replied. 
  "If 
  they 
  come 
  alone 
  

   they 
  are 
  stared 
  at, 
  and 
  if 
  they 
  come 
  with 
  

   a 
  man 
  some 
  one 
  calls 
  the 
  police." 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  new 
  Magic 
  Theater 
  bought 
  a 
  

   special 
  dispensation, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  

   theater 
  where 
  a 
  Turk 
  may 
  bring: 
  his 
  wife. 
  

  

  