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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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f mutual ac-commodation under unavoidable condi-tions, in which the host dispenses a court-esy which he knows he may need in turn.But the men of the middle and lowerclasses generally resort to the caravan-saries, where they take a room, cooktheir own meals, and sleep on a rug theycarry with them. In Teheran it is usualfor a traveller to resort to an inn wherehe may find fellow-townsmen. Availingmyself of this fact in several instanceswhen I was obliged to cause the arrest of DOMESTIC AND COURT CUSTOMS OF PERSIA. 219 fugitive criminals, I was able to trace and practice. They resemble the Turkish secure them throug-h information obtain- baths, but in those of Persia the cold ed from those sojourning there. plunge bath in an immense tank is a most After unloading his goods, the travel- important feature. The water in these ling merchant finds it next in order to tanks becomes foul from frequent use and take a bath, which is one of the institu- insufficient care to change it, and diseases
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WEIGHING MERCHANDISE IN A CARAVANSARY, TEHERAN. tions of Persia. Public baths abound atTeheran, and every one visits them atleast once a week; many do it daily. Thewealthy have private baths attached totheir houses, which are sometimes elegantand luxurious. Christians are never per-mitted to enter the public baths of Persia—a point in which the Peisians are far morefanatical than the Turks. But I am ableto judge,from several private baths I haveentered, what are the arrangements andVol. LXXIL—No. 428.—16 are undoubtedly thus communicated. Not-withstanding this fact, these public bathsare in the main useful and indispensableinstitutions in such a climate. After completing his bath, the Persiantraveller goes to the bazars, to transactthe business which brought him to Tehe-ran. This net-work of covered streets iscool even when the heat is unbearableelsewhere. Where two streets meet, theroof forms a Saracenic dome, groined or 220 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

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