WOMEN UNDER POLYGAMY
Mohametans in red caps and big trousers, more business going on than in the toy-quarter, and in the Atmeidan." And he gives a description of grey-beards finding the greatest delight in playing with young children.
This love of children is confirmed by Sir Edwin Pears, in "Turkey and its People." "Paradise is beneath the ground over which mothers walk," said Mohammed. This esteem for maternity and gentle solicitude for the well-being of the young is one of the most beautiful traits of the Turkish character.
The man who understands children, and is loved by them, has certain qualities that appeal to women. Women say that tenderness is one of the virtues that they most esteem in men. This tenderness is nearly always apparent in the Turk. He is a born wooer, possessed of sympathetic insight into woman's inner soul. Art develops this natural gift; for the men of the East are diligent students of the art of love. Compared with them, the average Briton is an inexperienced amateur.
Regarded from the question of ensuring happy and healthy marital relations, Sir James Paget has some wise words upon our disastrous ignorance of the physical expression of conjugal love. No Oriental is allowed to marry in such ignorance. Turkish and Persian love poetry reveal this masculine appreciation of woman's nature. There is no doubt that the tran-
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