TUT. SUNDAY OREGOMAX, rOKTLAXD,1 JAMARV .. 100
SCARRED FAGESTELL
FATE OF YOUNG GIRLS
Many Armenian Maidens Car
ried Off by Moslems.
TATTOOING MARKS SHAME
fiiiorulUalion oT Race Erfcctod by
l'niiuc Catastrophe Homeless,
Dcfpair Impoverishes Souls.
BY WILLIAM T. KLLIS.
(Copyright by the Nw York Herald Com
pany. All rights reserved.)
N'liW YORK. Branded women
eiich are the Armenians now return
ing from captivity to the Arabs and
the Kurds.
Of trapic human Interest is the
plight of these victims of the Turkish
dcuortations. They may be found in
increasing numbers, scattered among
the Armenian communities of Asia
Minor, to which ihev have returned
after nearly five years of enforced
exile. Were it not for the patriotic
resolution of their fellow Armenians
to regard these girls and women as
martyrs of the race their fate would
be horrible to conteinjjate.
All the world knows how the Turks,
Kurds. Arabs and other peoples, too,
took their pick of the girls and
young women from among- the de
ported Armenians who had been sent
into "exile" that the race might die
a "natural" death rather than be mas
sacred. I am not going to rehearse
the horrors of those days. Literally
thousands of Armenian girls were
forcibly made members of Moslem
households; and some were legally
married to the men who had secured
them.
TalooitiR Arab's Idea of Beauty.
Among the Kurds and Arabs it is
the custom to tatoo the faces of the
women, it is thought that their
boauty is thus enhanced. Designs on
foreheads, lips, chin and cheeks are
sometimes only a few blue spots, and
sometimes an elaborate design. The
Armenian girls were subjected to the
custom of the people amidst whom
tiiey had been taken.
Armenian women do not wear the
veil, so their faces are exposed to
public gaze. Markings are thus ap
parent to every observer. Since tat
tooing is not at all used in western
Asia Minor, the girl with features so
'ornamented" is proclaimed to friend
and stranger as a former inmate of a
Moslem home. Her story is written
unmistakably. Even although Ar
menian communities are agreed that
these returned refugees should be
treated as deserving of special honor
because of what they have suffered
for being Armenians, the conscious
ness of being branded is not whole
some. A sensitive woman shrinks
from it as from death. Curious and
unfeeling questioners keep the fact
alive.
Girls Burn Tbeir Faces,
Many of these Armenian girls re
tort to burning to obliterate the hate
ful sign-manual of their Moslem cap
tivity. They endure the pain and the
ensuing disfigurement if orrly they
may get rid of the blue brands of the
Bedouin and tho Kurd. Unfortunate
ly, this drastic treatment not only
leaves terrible scars, but it also tells
its own tale as plainly aa the tattoo
marks themselves.
With the party of Americans who
traveled with me across Asia Minor
were a young Armenian girl and her
brother, homeward bound to a sister,
the only survivor of the family. The
girl was really beautiful. Her fea
tures were regular, her skin was
clear, her color good. She had not
become hardened by her captivity and
her face was modest and winsome.
Because of her beauty she had been
tattooed with unusual elaborateness
of design by the women of the Kurd
ish household where she had been
kept.
As our train drew east ot the
Taurus mountains her appearance ex
citr.d more jind more comment, the
was a vijle advertisement of the
deportations. Crowds would some
times gather when she appeared at
tho door of the box ia.r. Oriental
fashion, there was no diffidence about
asking questions of her. On the part
of tlio Armenians these were really
sympathetic. But poor Kliza under
went a severe ordeal between Arana
anil AJium Kara Ilissar.
She promised me to go to the mis
sionary doctor for possible e.ffacement
of the facial decorations, though she
had planned to burn them off herself.
Ifer features were so completely cov
ered that the resultant scars would
hideously disfigure her. Physicians
had told me that there is no way
known to them for the removal of
tattooing- without trace, and if this
is so the fate of thousands of Arme
nian girls is pitiable.
"Worst Scar Arc In Souls.
Face branding is not the worst that
has happened to the Armenian de
portces. Stories from the near cast
have dwelt so exclusively upon the
horrors of hunger and homelessness
that little has been said about the
worst fate that has come to the Ar
menians as a result of the persecution.
This is the effect upon their spirits
Mvriads of Armenians have been
branded in their souls. Many, or more,
of the girls in captivity, for instance,
have neither sought nor desired de
liverance. They prefer to remain in
the indolence of Moslem harem life
they have become Moslems in reality
This is the deepest wound the Turks
have made upon Armenia. True, once
free, most of the liberated girls again
become Armenians in spirit, but their
real life has been crippled. Only
Hawthorne or a Hugo could write
this aspect of the Armenian tragedy
Speaking generally, it is the con
census among relief workers that
there lias been inevitably a great
slump in the character of the Ar
nienians who have been deportees and
refugees. The men, once the hardest
working race in the near east, have
lost their spirit of industry. Hope
less despair has impoverished the
souis of a host of them. The women
are readier to work than their hus
bands and sons.
Also, 1 was told by Gregorian
priests and Protestant Armenian pas
tors, there has been a grave decline
in the religious faith and interest of
the people. The spiritual fervor that
marked many Armenians in the
earlier stages of the persecutions has
now been succeeded by a numbness
and indifference. Once a notably
chaste people, the animal-like condi
tions of life into which the deporta
tion has forced them have resulted in
a. serious moral deterioration.
All of wlich is laid to the door of
the Turks as the crown of their
Atrocities; they have smitten and
Jjranded a nation in its soul.
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TINTED LONDON WANTED
&
FUTURISTIC PLAX TO liKIGHT-
EX IP CITY IS ADVOCATED.
Search for Panacea to Cause Eng
land to Be Merry Leads to
New Suggestion.
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lished by Arrangement.)
LOXDOX, Jan. 24. (Special Cable.)
-There is no diminution in the
search for a panacea to make England
bright and merry. One of the latest
suggestions is by Crossley Davies in
the Architects' Journal, showing how
London can be brightened. His futur
istic scheme is calculated to make the
empire's capital glUter even in a pea
soup fog
He advocates pavements of red brick
and white stone, floral balconies on
publie buildings, orange trees and
evergreens between classical columns
on the first floor -jf apartment houses,
glazed tiles, mosaics and frescoes to
ornament impressive buildings. Car
rying his suggestions further. Mr.
Davies prescribes delicate tinted shop
fronts and house doors and windows
with blight awnings, gilt and bronze
porticos and railings, gold and green
tiles and brightly-hued marbles.
An entirely difieient panacea to re
establish old-timo merry Kngland is
found in a statement by TM: Edward
Mellanby before the London Medical
society on the effects of aJcohol.
What he considers would keep a man
drunk for the longest time is a mix
ture of rum Hnd milk, and at the
same time would eliminate the worst
effects of getting drunk.
Dr. Mellanby says that a man be
lieves when intoxicated that he is a
better target shot than when sober,
although he really is not. He also
said that a man can get sober quicker
by walking- or running about than by
sleeping.
cials are not selected on the 'guess
what I have in my hand' plan."
LOWER COSTS PREDICTED
V. S. Food Head Advises Against
.Stocking Up AVith Clothes.
NEW YORK, Jan 24. A decrease
in the cost of living In the next few
months was predicted today by Arthur
Williams, federal food administrator.
He based his belief on the spirit of
economy prevailing among the people
as a whole, decreased exports and
increased production.
Prices of clothes will drop sharply
within a year. Mr. Williams believes,
and he advleed against stocking up
apparel now. The wiser course, he
says, is to buy only clothes that
actually are needed.
Inland Empire Covered With Snow.
SPOKAXE. Wash.. Jan. 24. Snow
fall of from two to four Inches was
general over eastern Washington and
northern Idaho today, according - to
reports received here. The fall here
thi eevenlng was estimated at four
inches.
S. A H. Qreen
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SEATTLE WOMAN' TO TALK
Mrs. O. F. Sanison to Tour Oregon
for Armenian Drive.
Mrs. O. F. Lamson of Seattle, who
came to Portland last year to speak
during the Armenian and near east
relief campaign, has been procured
by J. J. Handsaker, state director,
again this year, and will arrive in
this city today. She will make a
speaking tour of the state, following
a schedule which is now being worked
out. The latter part of the week she
will spend in southern Oregon, speak
ing at Roseburg on Friday, January
30: at Grants Pass on, Saturday, Jan
uary 31. and at Ashland and Medford
on Sunday, February 1.
Mrs. Lamson is the wife of one of
Seattle's prominent physicians, and
is herself a practicing physician, hav
ing graduated from the Johns Hop
kins university. She is also a grad
uate of several other universities, and
is an earnest and effective speaker.
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BRYAN DOUBTS HOOVER
Candidate "Unacceptable" Until
"Position Is Staled."
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24.
Pending a statement of his "position
on the questions at issue" by Herbert
Hoover, William J. Bryan told news
papermen here today he could not
consider the candidacy of the ex
food administrator for the presiden
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"When Mr. Hoover takes the people
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Schools at Memphis Closed.
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r t lie spread of inf lueny-a.. ttc ex
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