This "school" was housed in an old gray convent, on the edge of the town of Samzoun, on the Black Sea. It had been a home for beautiful nuns in the past, for the women of Samzoun are all very beautiful. After the Turks took possession of the town, the convent was used for those lovely Georgian and Armenian girls whom the officers fancied were worth more than the average captives.
The girls were gathered at the old convent where the officers guarding them said they were to be put in. The girls believed this until they noticed they were being brought down in groups from their sleeping quarters, where they were kept guarded all day, to stand before officers and merchants, rich farmers and wealthy Pashas. Then one, perhaps two, of the girls would be taken from the convent the next morning.
Sometimes a girl's entry into the harem is accompanied by the old-fashioned details of a Turkish wedding but, for the most part, she is taken to her new home like a new domestic animal bought at market. For she is, like them, meant for work.
WOLVES PROVE MENACE
These Animals Are a Plague to Mail
Plane Pilots.
Pilot P. P. Scott of the air mail service, who landed in the hills 20 miles from Elko, Nev., recently when the engine of his plane threw a connecting rod and he was forced to walk for 11 hours through a snowstorm before reaching Elko, is now carrying a 45-caliber pistol when making flights. 