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Stlllr, ...... el .......... cia. . ·-~ Wlaat .. aaw- W. ....a a_. el ·tlle·H · Lad ......... , _ _ ow w.w ,._.._ Mr. Stiler cl_.. dla a . . . pict·· . . . . . . tilte. -co... ....,,......., AtM. uid Home.· TWe ..... ·-·· ...... .... _...., ... ...-...,.· a ... c-r w.... F....U : B~ Rw. F......U CMT Stiler C ONSTANTINOPLE is the magnificent old capital of the Eastern World. As one approaches he cannot imagine a more strategic situation for a great city-nor can he deny that he has looked UJK>D a more imposing one. Before we landed we .were transferred to a little pleasure craft \vhich took us up the Bosphorus to the mouth of the Black Sea. The Bosphorus reminds me of the Hudson · River, only instead of having New York on one side and New Jersey on the other, there was Asia on one side and Europe on th~ other. The banks of the European side were lined with the palaces' of former monarchs. Some ·()f them are now public schoots. As we were returning and darkness had almost overtaken us, suddenly. our engines stopped. · The tJervous mem-· hers of our party were i.-stant in their anxious · inquiries as to the cause. Were we going to sink to the bottom or drift to danger? No.thing of the sort. Something far more interesting: The President was p...., u. How Turkey does .._e · esident },{ ustapha Kemal 'P·he. was eating dinner on his palatial acht he passed, but at our . . . . . ' ea. out on deck to salute ·· a,nd we aDt1 all the other Turkl' went II¥JIIlentarily wild. . . J tLibNewYillti One of the reaa0na for '· Keblal's popularity we had · a .cha.n~e to · study through that $atur~ vening, while the boat lay at tile dot Across the broad street that faced t e cfock was a two story bui~in,. B w :w~e . shops · of vanous so d abtive a ~ d ce hall Now eale ber t ·, i· a Mo mmeda~t land. But remember too, that Republican Turkey five yeat~ atw gave woman her full freedom. She dare not longer wear her black · weeds and ·her veil. She is now a European. Men too ll\,USt wear the Western dress and esche the fez. And so they c:liinced, old f~s atul young. The orchestra bought its pw.sic in New York. The thi'UIIl thrum of the jazz went on~not till midnight bUt · all night, while the Ang&Pn fathers and their non-conformi bed-fellows tried. in vain to sleep· . Of e places we visited in Constantinople none of course meant quite io much 10 us as St. Sophia. Built as a ChristfJn Church by Justinian in the sixth century, it has served since the fifteeath as a Mohammedan Mosque. The dear story is supported by great pillara some of which came from the ' · · of Diana at Ephesus and sonae from fhe great temple we had seen Baa. .k. It was curious to see w aD - prayer .rags over that spacious locW . ~ placed ju,t a little on the · He and jail. I cannot take time to even mention the various palace drawing rooms with their different exposures to match the changing seasons. But l must speak of "The Treasury." This sla~t· since J usfinia:n had not been ,..,...,__ _ _~---111!1!!--...-.---.l is an extensive building in which is careful t() ere£t his chutch so that the 11ae .-.,_, <t· to ...,._)- displayed the personal .wealth of the worshi~r faced the East. Tlae' Acrapali· · . _ ,.._ tM SultaQs. Possibly nowhere in the ........ tJae llo....U. R.W T...a. el . J.pit.r, ,....J..W. world is there such an amazing accuAt tlie Museum we ~w the famous dae PartJ.ea-. Adaw·--n.. Tlaea- mutation of jewels and gold. There we Siloam tablet: taken from the tunnel · · of 8aecla-. Att.... ~ Tlae saw a throne as big as a huge divan of that Hezekiah built in Jerusalem lo 11...- of St. ...... ea..taJdi. solid gold, robes heavily overlaid with conduct the water from the Virgin's ,JIGP1·--(. . .t)-tl.. oWi.k ia tlae gold ~nd swords cased in bejeweled Fount outside the walls to the Pool Hippodel ... C··'n_,i opl· gold sheaths. of Siloam inside the city, thus forcing Gold, Gold, NotWa· Bat GoW his besieger, Sennacherib, to retire. There was every conceivable article In the d afternoon we visited . the · ·h h · f of daily. use1 canes, watches, fty-swat..e Afte-tim·e ~"'e of the never meet w·t out t e uncertamty o t f tt ff Seraglin -. ~ v.... his presence. w e saw a1 h E t e nter- ers, ans, d c1gare e fcases, h pens, · 1co ee 11 Sultans. Only four mon hs before Our tainment Chamber where so Ambassadors cups ~n a score o ot er art1c es, a Yisit this myttic spot bad been open to frotn abroad were met. It had but one in gold and gems. In still another the public. It is located on a beautiful door. Beside this door ·was a faucet room was another throne. It was overpoint of ground overlooking the Sea . laid in heavy silk with gold figures of Y: ora, the Golden Hom and the that was always runnmg when a con- woven in it and under the canopy hung rehJ both ference was on so that th.e ear at the an emerald as large as a man's fist. Bosp · ras. Here the ruled . and eel. Th , ruled Jiy the ·keyhole could hear nothmg but the One room twenty feet h~h was lined of r. We saw the tab et \Vater. to the ceiling with the chmaware of a . s · at roOm iflere there was a screened ·lialWe visited the harem and the hundred wives. In cases in the center cony for the Sultan. The Cabinet ~ould Eunuch's dormitories, baths, mosque (Continued on Page 64) Attl··