Show to 19 lill C e Ys toc agur 19 N I 1 events I 1 if in nato agn I 1 VV h D in D it a U U IN I 1 CAIRO ANCIENT CAPITAL ATTAINS NEW POLITICAL I 1 importance egypto capital attains new political I 1 importance as the administration seat scat of the more liberal home rule granted the ancient empire by great britain cairo queen of the nile valley the par aaris is of the levant or the diamond stud on the handle of the ran fan of the delta jig as your imagination prefers has about the population of boston a record of disorders that makes bolshevism a nouveau and a all its own from the citadel ramparts the visitor receives the best introduction to cairo that unforgettable view the ancient city at his feet a vast panorama of houses and palaces and hovels flecked with cupolas cu minarets mina and towers the island dotted aher and the verdant nile intile valley ever widening toward the north yellow cliffs to the east and beona them the desert the sea of sand and suggests illimitable space until the faint outlines of the pyramids against the horizon turn ones thoughts from space to time descend to the streets of cairo and encounter bedlam city of the arabian bian nights perhaps but certainly the days loose a thousand and one noises there are the rattle of carts cries of the water bearers moaning of camels braying of donkeys whirring of taxicabs taxicab jangling of coins in the open bazaars continual shouts from pilots of this traffic medley such buch us as thy illy foot sir or to thy left olt oh chief all in the native tongue of course gorgeous colors of every hue find and shade assail the eye a post imbres zionistic sioni listic fanfare of prehistoric color schemes the poorer the egyptian the more ragged the more rags the more colors then again the arabs denote their families and dynasties by turbans of distinctive colors to tell a prophets scion from a priest of today or one dervish order from another or any of the file countless dynasties find sects apart requires a study rf of turban lore as complicated as file alie numerous insignia worn by american soldiers returned from france the richer women attended by servants may be seen in carriages faces veiled to their eyes eye lashes and lids fingers and exposed toes darkened with henna and be decked with earrings anklets danklets an klets beads and bracelets poorer women go afoot also veiled garbed in III plain robes highly suggestive of mother hubbardd hubbards Hubli Hub ards bards in the street crowds too are the beggars whose baboons babions serve the purpose of the monkeys of our organ grinders snake charmers vendors of the ubiquitous scarabs and tiny graven images and the Berher Berber lne bead bols bois |