#Frankistan

[celui-qui-se-tient-au-dehors]

[observatoiredumensonge]

CETTE FOIS ON Y EST !

« Aujourd’hui, la Gauche assure la continuité du “service déconstruction de la France”  ce sans discontinuer, c’est une question d’idéologie… C’est le Frankistan ! » Par Alexandre Goldfarb Vous pouvez soutenir notre travail en vous abonnant mensuellement pour 2 € par mois via STRIPE totalement sécuriséEn cadeau, un livre PDF vous sera envoyé par mail 🔵 CETTE FOIS ON Y EST ! « Aujourd’hui, la…

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

frank your glasses are cool

where did you get them?

I got them at a cool store in DC called "Just Bread" -- they had a whole wall of crazy-assed shades, they were the first things I bought when I moved here in September.

They're Vuarnet Americas "Accelerator" sunglasses -- they're supposed to work for more than one kind of vision problem, the people who sold them to me (at the Just Bread) thought I'd gotten the ones for nearsightedness ("myopia") and said that the other two (farsightedness and astigmatism) are doable with frames of the same sort, with a different setting of the lenses

(I also tried on some "hippie" shades that were heavily tinted but had no prescription; they didn't seem to improve my vision at all, tinting or no.)

[manorpunk]

A random thought, it would be quite fun for manorpunk to occasionally drop random details about insane things going on in the rest of the world. But the characters at no point explain them or pay any attention beyond the direct effects on them, because this is still american dammit what's the point if we have to care about other places.

"The British tea delivery for the annual Boston reconsecration ceremony has been delayed due to City/United border clashes."

"I was trying to get the GLN to send us more bodypillows but apparently Neo-neo-post-Maodernists in Shandong think they're insufficiently counterrevolutionary so its going to take a while."

"No I keep telling you this the Dutch aren't real, its an allegory about failed attempts to respond to climate change"

oh absolutely. France is called Frankistan now and nobody ever explains why.

[lunicornelove]

RENAISSANCE FRANÇAISE : L'ÉMERGENCE DU "FRANKISTAN" AUX LUMIÈRES DE L'AS...

[yespat49]

RAMADAN AU FRANKISTAN - Le Forum du PdF (avec Pierre Cassen & Thomas Joly)

[puppetartz]

Godi the fucking bat shit crazy frankistane who just a funny Lil guy

[gregor-samsung]

Christopher, at this stage, was reading in the back of the lorry, where his companions were a Teherani, an Isfahani, two muleteers, and the driver’s assistant. Teherani: What’s this book? Christopher: A book of history. Teherani: What history? Christopher: The history of Rum and the countries near it, such as Persia, Egypt, Turkey, and Frankistan. Assistant (opening the book): Ya Ali! What characters! Teherani: Can you read it? Christopher: Of course. It’s my language. Teherani: Read it to us. Christopher: But you cannot understand the language. Isfahani: No matter. Read a little. Muleteers: Go on! Go on! Christopher: “It may occasion some surprise that the Roman pontiff should erect, in the heart of France, the tribunal from whence he hurled his anathemas against the king; but our surprise will vanish so soon as we form a just estimate of a king of France in the eleventh century.” Teherani: What’s that about? Christopher: About the Pope. Teherani: The Foof? Who’s that? Christopher: The Caliph of Rum. Muleteer: It’s a history of the Caliph of Rum. Teherani: Shut up! Is it a new book? Assistant: Is it full of clean thoughts? Christopher: It is without religion. The man who wrote it did not believe in the prophets. Teherani: Did he believe in God? Christopher: Perhaps. But he despised the prophets. He said that Jesus was an ordinary man (general agreement) and that Mohammad was an ordinary man (general depression) and that Zoroaster was an ordinary man. Muleteer (who speaks Turkish and doesn’t understand well): Was he called Zoroaster? Christopher: No, Gibbon. Chorus: Ghiboon! Ghiboon! Teherani: Is there any religion which says there is no god? Christopher: I think not. But in Africa they worship idols. Teherani: Are there many idolaters in England?

Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana; first published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1937.

[skitours]

Western influence upon the Oriental

Foreigners give to these beggars until they begin to find them out, and then they commonly resort to more systematic methods of charity, giving freely for the really needy whose case has been investigated, but utterly refusing to give to the professionals. As a result—and this illustrates one of the curious phases of Western influence upon the Oriental—the foreigner is understood by the people at large to have no compassion. I have often heard a native say to a beggar who was ringing at the door of a foreigner’s house. “ Don’t wait there. It is an English house. They never give alms.”

Constantinople has multitudes of occupations as squalid in their real profitableness as that of the Beggars’ Guild. But these fall rather in the class of contrasts than of contacts with the business life of the West. Greater contrast can hardly be imagined than is found between the European business houses of Galata, on the one hand, with their commodious comfort; their desks, chairs, writing machines, file-cases and other paraphernalia of a prompt and accurate business system, and on the other hand the cramped quarters of native merchants. For the latter have as the only roomy thing about the place, the arm chair for the head of the firm, built wide enough to receive his feet as well as the rest of his person. They shun desks as inventions of the evil one for the mislaying of papers which can far more readily be found when carried about in a leather handbag. And they do their writing by resting the paper upon the palm of the hand unless they have employed clerks educated by Europeans, and therefore able to handle paper on a desk or table when preparing the correspondence of the firm guided istanbul tours.

The Turk accustomed to the little open stalls which answer for shops in the native city beyond the Golden Horn, is fairly dazed at the magnificence of the shops of Pera, the European district. He never ceases to wonder at their roomy interiors, their space for everything, making it unnecessary for stockings and ribbons and laces and Berlin wools to be kept in the same box. Pie is astounded at the broad counters for the display of goods, at the masses of decorative material sacrificed for the show windows, and particularly at the use of plate glass, fit for the palace of a king, to shut in the shop front. The most reckless of native merchants will not venture to use glass larger than ten inches by twelve for his shop front. He would feel unprotected behind plate glass.

 Asiatic districts of Stamboul

In the European part of the city there is spaciousness and thoughtful provision of conveniences based on the assurance that the customer will pay for them. In the Asiatic districts of Stamboul is contrasting narrowness of limited expectation, and the repellent tokens of distrust in mankind. This contrast rarely impresses the Turk to the degree of dissatisfaction with his own methods. There are cases where Mohammedan shop-keepers who have Christian clerks have embellished and enlarged their quarters. The Greeks and Armenians who are in trade, generally copy from the Western merchants, if their shops are not hidden in the recesses of the native quarters. But to adopt as a rule a business system of which the principle is frugal self-denial in personal expenses coupled with lavish expenditures in business, would overthrow the philosophy of the whole life.

Generally the most accomplished for the Turk by bringing him to see such fruits of Western civilization is to draw from him ejaculations of amazement at the fidelity with which the devil helps his followers of the Wesf, or at the inscrutable Providence which denies like luxury to the servants of God. And the rumour goes out to all parts of the Empire; and in Kourdisli tents on the Eastern highlands you may hear the children instructed that the reason why Frankish goods are elegant is that the devil walks openly in Frankistan to teach the people.

But the Turk can understand lavish expenditure for pleasure. The amusements of the city therefore promise to bring him upon the same ground as the European. The simplicity of the recreations of this city excites quick sympathy. An evening walk in the Mohammedan districts during the fast of Ramazan, when all of every night seems to be devoted to enjoyment, will show the Turk’s idea of amusement. All of the hundreds of mosques in the city are illuminated and have the balconies of their minarets crusted over with lamps. Where a mosque is large enough to have two or more minarets, ropes stretched between the minarets bear lamps suspended in artistic arrangement so as to form pious texts or other pleasing decorations which sway in the breeze high above the heads of the people.

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Western influence upon the Oriental

Foreigners give to these beggars until they begin to find them out, and then they commonly resort to more systematic methods of charity, giving freely for the really needy whose case has been investigated, but utterly refusing to give to the professionals. As a result—and this illustrates one of the curious phases of Western influence upon the Oriental—the foreigner is understood by the people at large to have no compassion. I have often heard a native say to a beggar who was ringing at the door of a foreigner’s house. “ Don’t wait there. It is an English house. They never give alms.”

Constantinople has multitudes of occupations as squalid in their real profitableness as that of the Beggars’ Guild. But these fall rather in the class of contrasts than of contacts with the business life of the West. Greater contrast can hardly be imagined than is found between the European business houses of Galata, on the one hand, with their commodious comfort; their desks, chairs, writing machines, file-cases and other paraphernalia of a prompt and accurate business system, and on the other hand the cramped quarters of native merchants. For the latter have as the only roomy thing about the place, the arm chair for the head of the firm, built wide enough to receive his feet as well as the rest of his person. They shun desks as inventions of the evil one for the mislaying of papers which can far more readily be found when carried about in a leather handbag. And they do their writing by resting the paper upon the palm of the hand unless they have employed clerks educated by Europeans, and therefore able to handle paper on a desk or table when preparing the correspondence of the firm guided istanbul tours.

The Turk accustomed to the little open stalls which answer for shops in the native city beyond the Golden Horn, is fairly dazed at the magnificence of the shops of Pera, the European district. He never ceases to wonder at their roomy interiors, their space for everything, making it unnecessary for stockings and ribbons and laces and Berlin wools to be kept in the same box. Pie is astounded at the broad counters for the display of goods, at the masses of decorative material sacrificed for the show windows, and particularly at the use of plate glass, fit for the palace of a king, to shut in the shop front. The most reckless of native merchants will not venture to use glass larger than ten inches by twelve for his shop front. He would feel unprotected behind plate glass.

 Asiatic districts of Stamboul

In the European part of the city there is spaciousness and thoughtful provision of conveniences based on the assurance that the customer will pay for them. In the Asiatic districts of Stamboul is contrasting narrowness of limited expectation, and the repellent tokens of distrust in mankind. This contrast rarely impresses the Turk to the degree of dissatisfaction with his own methods. There are cases where Mohammedan shop-keepers who have Christian clerks have embellished and enlarged their quarters. The Greeks and Armenians who are in trade, generally copy from the Western merchants, if their shops are not hidden in the recesses of the native quarters. But to adopt as a rule a business system of which the principle is frugal self-denial in personal expenses coupled with lavish expenditures in business, would overthrow the philosophy of the whole life.

Generally the most accomplished for the Turk by bringing him to see such fruits of Western civilization is to draw from him ejaculations of amazement at the fidelity with which the devil helps his followers of the Wesf, or at the inscrutable Providence which denies like luxury to the servants of God. And the rumour goes out to all parts of the Empire; and in Kourdisli tents on the Eastern highlands you may hear the children instructed that the reason why Frankish goods are elegant is that the devil walks openly in Frankistan to teach the people.

But the Turk can understand lavish expenditure for pleasure. The amusements of the city therefore promise to bring him upon the same ground as the European. The simplicity of the recreations of this city excites quick sympathy. An evening walk in the Mohammedan districts during the fast of Ramazan, when all of every night seems to be devoted to enjoyment, will show the Turk’s idea of amusement. All of the hundreds of mosques in the city are illuminated and have the balconies of their minarets crusted over with lamps. Where a mosque is large enough to have two or more minarets, ropes stretched between the minarets bear lamps suspended in artistic arrangement so as to form pious texts or other pleasing decorations which sway in the breeze high above the heads of the people.

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Western influence upon the Oriental

Foreigners give to these beggars until they begin to find them out, and then they commonly resort to more systematic methods of charity, giving freely for the really needy whose case has been investigated, but utterly refusing to give to the professionals. As a result—and this illustrates one of the curious phases of Western influence upon the Oriental—the foreigner is understood by the people at large to have no compassion. I have often heard a native say to a beggar who was ringing at the door of a foreigner’s house. “ Don’t wait there. It is an English house. They never give alms.”

Constantinople has multitudes of occupations as squalid in their real profitableness as that of the Beggars’ Guild. But these fall rather in the class of contrasts than of contacts with the business life of the West. Greater contrast can hardly be imagined than is found between the European business houses of Galata, on the one hand, with their commodious comfort; their desks, chairs, writing machines, file-cases and other paraphernalia of a prompt and accurate business system, and on the other hand the cramped quarters of native merchants. For the latter have as the only roomy thing about the place, the arm chair for the head of the firm, built wide enough to receive his feet as well as the rest of his person. They shun desks as inventions of the evil one for the mislaying of papers which can far more readily be found when carried about in a leather handbag. And they do their writing by resting the paper upon the palm of the hand unless they have employed clerks educated by Europeans, and therefore able to handle paper on a desk or table when preparing the correspondence of the firm guided istanbul tours.

The Turk accustomed to the little open stalls which answer for shops in the native city beyond the Golden Horn, is fairly dazed at the magnificence of the shops of Pera, the European district. He never ceases to wonder at their roomy interiors, their space for everything, making it unnecessary for stockings and ribbons and laces and Berlin wools to be kept in the same box. Pie is astounded at the broad counters for the display of goods, at the masses of decorative material sacrificed for the show windows, and particularly at the use of plate glass, fit for the palace of a king, to shut in the shop front. The most reckless of native merchants will not venture to use glass larger than ten inches by twelve for his shop front. He would feel unprotected behind plate glass.

 Asiatic districts of Stamboul

In the European part of the city there is spaciousness and thoughtful provision of conveniences based on the assurance that the customer will pay for them. In the Asiatic districts of Stamboul is contrasting narrowness of limited expectation, and the repellent tokens of distrust in mankind. This contrast rarely impresses the Turk to the degree of dissatisfaction with his own methods. There are cases where Mohammedan shop-keepers who have Christian clerks have embellished and enlarged their quarters. The Greeks and Armenians who are in trade, generally copy from the Western merchants, if their shops are not hidden in the recesses of the native quarters. But to adopt as a rule a business system of which the principle is frugal self-denial in personal expenses coupled with lavish expenditures in business, would overthrow the philosophy of the whole life.

Generally the most accomplished for the Turk by bringing him to see such fruits of Western civilization is to draw from him ejaculations of amazement at the fidelity with which the devil helps his followers of the Wesf, or at the inscrutable Providence which denies like luxury to the servants of God. And the rumour goes out to all parts of the Empire; and in Kourdisli tents on the Eastern highlands you may hear the children instructed that the reason why Frankish goods are elegant is that the devil walks openly in Frankistan to teach the people.

But the Turk can understand lavish expenditure for pleasure. The amusements of the city therefore promise to bring him upon the same ground as the European. The simplicity of the recreations of this city excites quick sympathy. An evening walk in the Mohammedan districts during the fast of Ramazan, when all of every night seems to be devoted to enjoyment, will show the Turk’s idea of amusement. All of the hundreds of mosques in the city are illuminated and have the balconies of their minarets crusted over with lamps. Where a mosque is large enough to have two or more minarets, ropes stretched between the minarets bear lamps suspended in artistic arrangement so as to form pious texts or other pleasing decorations which sway in the breeze high above the heads of the people.

[celui-qui-se-tient-au-dehors]

https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/cherbourg-en-cotentin-50100/une-instruction-ouverte-pour-viol-avec-actes-de-barbarie-a-cherbourg-6cfd4912-3826-11ee-87b2-9bdf3606b1ab

"Alors que médias et institutions font la chasse aux flics, tout en se demandant si le terme "décivilisation" n'est pas trop fort, on apprend qu'un "jeune de 18 ans" s'est introduit chez une jeune femme à Cherbourg, pour la "frapper à de multiples reprises" et la violer "plusieurs fois, notamment avec un manche à balai".

"Perforation du colon, de l'intestin grêle, du péritoine et du diaphragme, pneumothorax, fractures aux côtes et risque élevé de choc septique. Conduite à l’hôpital, la jeune femme a été plongée dans un coma artificiel. Elle est actuellement entre la vie et la mort" (Le Figaro).

Interpellé, Oumar N. est "déjà connu des services de police".

Enfin, l'important c'est de ne pas "récupérer"."

Laurent Obertone

[observatoiredumensonge]

LE LOUP DANS LA GRANGE

Dans cette vidéo, je vous raconte une fable qui exprime bien la situation actuelle, partagez-là avec le plus grand nombre car c'est très intéressant et n'hésitez pas à vous abonner à notre chaîne YOUTUBE pour nous soutenir !

Avec ce résultat des législatives, la France a basculé définitivement dans le Frankistan Par Alexandre Goldfarb Vous pouvez soutenir notre travail en vous abonnant mensuellement pour 2 € par mois via STRIPE totalement sécuriséEn cadeau, un livre PDF vous sera envoyé par mail 🔵 LE LOUP DANS LA GRANGE Avec ce résultat des législatives, la France a basculé définitivement dans le Frankistan Dans…

[travelandtravel]

Western influence upon the Oriental

Foreigners give to these beggars until they begin to find them out, and then they commonly resort to more systematic methods of charity, giving freely for the really needy whose case has been investigated, but utterly refusing to give to the professionals. As a result—and this illustrates one of the curious phases of Western influence upon the Oriental—the foreigner is understood by the people at large to have no compassion. I have often heard a native say to a beggar who was ringing at the door of a foreigner’s house. “ Don’t wait there. It is an English house. They never give alms.”

Constantinople has multitudes of occupations as squalid in their real profitableness as that of the Beggars’ Guild. But these fall rather in the class of contrasts than of contacts with the business life of the West. Greater contrast can hardly be imagined than is found between the European business houses of Galata, on the one hand, with their commodious comfort; their desks, chairs, writing machines, file-cases and other paraphernalia of a prompt and accurate business system, and on the other hand the cramped quarters of native merchants. For the latter have as the only roomy thing about the place, the arm chair for the head of the firm, built wide enough to receive his feet as well as the rest of his person. They shun desks as inventions of the evil one for the mislaying of papers which can far more readily be found when carried about in a leather handbag. And they do their writing by resting the paper upon the palm of the hand unless they have employed clerks educated by Europeans, and therefore able to handle paper on a desk or table when preparing the correspondence of the firm guided istanbul tours.

The Turk accustomed to the little open stalls which answer for shops in the native city beyond the Golden Horn, is fairly dazed at the magnificence of the shops of Pera, the European district. He never ceases to wonder at their roomy interiors, their space for everything, making it unnecessary for stockings and ribbons and laces and Berlin wools to be kept in the same box. Pie is astounded at the broad counters for the display of goods, at the masses of decorative material sacrificed for the show windows, and particularly at the use of plate glass, fit for the palace of a king, to shut in the shop front. The most reckless of native merchants will not venture to use glass larger than ten inches by twelve for his shop front. He would feel unprotected behind plate glass.

 Asiatic districts of Stamboul

In the European part of the city there is spaciousness and thoughtful provision of conveniences based on the assurance that the customer will pay for them. In the Asiatic districts of Stamboul is contrasting narrowness of limited expectation, and the repellent tokens of distrust in mankind. This contrast rarely impresses the Turk to the degree of dissatisfaction with his own methods. There are cases where Mohammedan shop-keepers who have Christian clerks have embellished and enlarged their quarters. The Greeks and Armenians who are in trade, generally copy from the Western merchants, if their shops are not hidden in the recesses of the native quarters. But to adopt as a rule a business system of which the principle is frugal self-denial in personal expenses coupled with lavish expenditures in business, would overthrow the philosophy of the whole life.

Generally the most accomplished for the Turk by bringing him to see such fruits of Western civilization is to draw from him ejaculations of amazement at the fidelity with which the devil helps his followers of the Wesf, or at the inscrutable Providence which denies like luxury to the servants of God. And the rumour goes out to all parts of the Empire; and in Kourdisli tents on the Eastern highlands you may hear the children instructed that the reason why Frankish goods are elegant is that the devil walks openly in Frankistan to teach the people.

But the Turk can understand lavish expenditure for pleasure. The amusements of the city therefore promise to bring him upon the same ground as the European. The simplicity of the recreations of this city excites quick sympathy. An evening walk in the Mohammedan districts during the fast of Ramazan, when all of every night seems to be devoted to enjoyment, will show the Turk’s idea of amusement. All of the hundreds of mosques in the city are illuminated and have the balconies of their minarets crusted over with lamps. Where a mosque is large enough to have two or more minarets, ropes stretched between the minarets bear lamps suspended in artistic arrangement so as to form pious texts or other pleasing decorations which sway in the breeze high above the heads of the people.

[manorpunk]

A Brief Materialist History of the Former US in the Mid-21st Century

2030s: the Polycrisis. Unresolved issues of climate and pollution cause more and more intense natural disasters, which wipe out swathes of vital but poorly-maintained infrastructure. The US federal gov't is too hollowed-out at this point to fix anything, and the tangle of middlemen contractors responsible for actually building and repairing that infrastructure all try to deny responsibility, causing a massive growth spurt of federalism as state governments are forced to step in and try to put out the literal and metaphorical fires. All this embarrassing chaos tarnishes the US's economic reputation of stability, causing a feedback loop of economic contractions as more and more foreign investors pull back from US investments, causing stock market drops which make even more investors panic and pull back, etc. The decade ends with the signing of the Qingdao Accords, a sort of reverse Marshall Plan where the newly-formed Global Logistics Network pours money into infrastructure projects in exchange for creating their own tangle of middlemen contractors. The signing of the Qingdao Accords is generally taken as the end of the Second Cold War with a Chinese victory.

2040s: the Sheriff's Insurrection. A loose alliance of small-town sheriffs (as well as small-business tyrants, conspiracy theorists, retvrn types, and various opportunists, all collectively referred to as 'Sheriffs') resist the "Chinese takeover of America" in a 21st century version of the evergreen landowners-vs-industrialists conflict. They are quickly fought off by GLN-hired paramilitary forces (the same forces will go on to form the Surplus Young Men, an Armored Core/Outer Heaven style 'security force' which is technically unaligned but everyone knows they're cashing GLN checks). The Sheriffs flee to the Midwest, creating a decentralized zone of tiny feuding principalities derogatorily dubbed ‘the manors.’ Other former US states begin to unite into new regional nations - Boswash, California, Cascadia, Texaplex, and the Great Lakes Republic. These new nations actually seem like they might be here to stay, but with much less ability to go sticking their nose in the rest of the world's business, and the decade ends with a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, China’s victory in the Second Cold War proves to be a Pyrrhic victory as the death of Xi Jinping (probably of natural causes but who knows) allows the GLN to balloon in wealth and influence. The CCP takes a sharp nationalist turn, re-branding itself as the Chinese China Party and turning party politics into a game of who can dunk on Americans the most.

2050s: Things are… good? The GLN is delivering on their promise of a new economic order, an automated and algorithmic 21st century market socialism with an infrastructure-based middle class of technicians, data analysts, and civil servants. There's still a global underclass of cheap mobile labor to actually go out to the middle of nowhere and build all this stuff but, y'know, it's a smaller global underclass. The manors calm down a little as the GLN supports the formation of autochthonous American nations: the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota and Dakota in the Midwest and the Diné Nation in the southwest, along with the progressive majority-black government of Piedmont in the Atlantic South, make it feel like we might be doing something about that whole ‘foundational white supremacy’ thing (The GLN was, of course, happy to take credit for solving racism forever). The GLN gets to claim even more PR victories as various post-colonial regions peacefully unify as ‘leagues,’ EU-style intra-national coalitions that work together on economic on diplomatic matters while letting individual states largely manage their own affairs. The US nations start to wonder if it might be time to form a league of their own. (Incidentally, by this point the EU has split apart into Frankistan and Mitteleuropa, Spain has exploded again, and Punished Britain is not coping well with their fall from grace.)

2060s: Who knows? Things start getting tense as the global construction boom slows down and the money-hose starts to dry up. 'Minor' regional problems and potential long-term issues are swept under the rug because "we’ve got a good thing going here, don't fuck this up," and the once-radical new visions for the world are already beginning to seem calcified and sclerotic. The newly-formed American League is poised to be little more than a rubber stamp for GLN policy… or is it?

[festravels]

Western influence upon the Oriental

Foreigners give to these beggars until they begin to find them out, and then they commonly resort to more systematic methods of charity, giving freely for the really needy whose case has been investigated, but utterly refusing to give to the professionals. As a result—and this illustrates one of the curious phases of Western influence upon the Oriental—the foreigner is understood by the people at large to have no compassion. I have often heard a native say to a beggar who was ringing at the door of a foreigner’s house. “ Don’t wait there. It is an English house. They never give alms.”

Constantinople has multitudes of occupations as squalid in their real profitableness as that of the Beggars’ Guild. But these fall rather in the class of contrasts than of contacts with the business life of the West. Greater contrast can hardly be imagined than is found between the European business houses of Galata, on the one hand, with their commodious comfort; their desks, chairs, writing machines, file-cases and other paraphernalia of a prompt and accurate business system, and on the other hand the cramped quarters of native merchants. For the latter have as the only roomy thing about the place, the arm chair for the head of the firm, built wide enough to receive his feet as well as the rest of his person. They shun desks as inventions of the evil one for the mislaying of papers which can far more readily be found when carried about in a leather handbag. And they do their writing by resting the paper upon the palm of the hand unless they have employed clerks educated by Europeans, and therefore able to handle paper on a desk or table when preparing the correspondence of the firm guided istanbul tours.

The Turk accustomed to the little open stalls which answer for shops in the native city beyond the Golden Horn, is fairly dazed at the magnificence of the shops of Pera, the European district. He never ceases to wonder at their roomy interiors, their space for everything, making it unnecessary for stockings and ribbons and laces and Berlin wools to be kept in the same box. Pie is astounded at the broad counters for the display of goods, at the masses of decorative material sacrificed for the show windows, and particularly at the use of plate glass, fit for the palace of a king, to shut in the shop front. The most reckless of native merchants will not venture to use glass larger than ten inches by twelve for his shop front. He would feel unprotected behind plate glass.

 Asiatic districts of Stamboul

In the European part of the city there is spaciousness and thoughtful provision of conveniences based on the assurance that the customer will pay for them. In the Asiatic districts of Stamboul is contrasting narrowness of limited expectation, and the repellent tokens of distrust in mankind. This contrast rarely impresses the Turk to the degree of dissatisfaction with his own methods. There are cases where Mohammedan shop-keepers who have Christian clerks have embellished and enlarged their quarters. The Greeks and Armenians who are in trade, generally copy from the Western merchants, if their shops are not hidden in the recesses of the native quarters. But to adopt as a rule a business system of which the principle is frugal self-denial in personal expenses coupled with lavish expenditures in business, would overthrow the philosophy of the whole life.

Generally the most accomplished for the Turk by bringing him to see such fruits of Western civilization is to draw from him ejaculations of amazement at the fidelity with which the devil helps his followers of the Wesf, or at the inscrutable Providence which denies like luxury to the servants of God. And the rumour goes out to all parts of the Empire; and in Kourdisli tents on the Eastern highlands you may hear the children instructed that the reason why Frankish goods are elegant is that the devil walks openly in Frankistan to teach the people.

But the Turk can understand lavish expenditure for pleasure. The amusements of the city therefore promise to bring him upon the same ground as the European. The simplicity of the recreations of this city excites quick sympathy. An evening walk in the Mohammedan districts during the fast of Ramazan, when all of every night seems to be devoted to enjoyment, will show the Turk’s idea of amusement. All of the hundreds of mosques in the city are illuminated and have the balconies of their minarets crusted over with lamps. Where a mosque is large enough to have two or more minarets, ropes stretched between the minarets bear lamps suspended in artistic arrangement so as to form pious texts or other pleasing decorations which sway in the breeze high above the heads of the people.