Show 4 0 0 V moslem of cairo wearing the black burko pros sred by the national geographic society cie washington D C cairo where steep sleep scores of egypt egypto 8 la in the rock hewn once 9 mighty kings not sepulchers that were prepared f for or them but in glass cases open to the gaze of tile the curious will probably become the resting place of 0 many of tile the objects brought to light by tile most recent important tomb discovery even though housti tile the body of tut tutankhamen tut ankh amen umen la Is left eft where it was found for archeo logical finds in egypt are the property of the government and at cairo it has set up the greatest museum of egyptian antiquities in existence yet the remains of the pharaohs Phara are after all in alien hands primarily arabic secondarily cosmopolitan for cairo Is today what bagdad was in the days of al just no a the mantle of rome passed west to london and now new york so the mantle of the metropolis of the arable arabic speaking world has passed west and has fallen on the great city bf the nile carlo is a living kaleidoscope its colored fragments are tumbled into place dace not merely from last east to wea aca but from north und south as well white milte robed bedouin clad fellah shiny black sudanese and central african negro swarthy turk persian hindu Alon mongolian gollan dusky moor bloor italian greek armenian and the whiter folk from europe america and the ari antipodes all are jumbled jumble together in cairo their various tongues in making alling a babel that can hardly be duplicated at tiny other spot on earth down the centuries by trolley the life of cairo Is almost what you will do you want the finest of european hotels with tho the last word in luxury they are there do you long for the bazaars of the true east you will find thein just around the corner would you seo see the primitive life of the humble city dweller the inn of the desert wanderer student life among mohammedan youth the crowds about the mosques the palaces of eastern potentates they are all within easy reach and it you would journey swiftly and cheaply into the past you need only board jan an electric trolley car and be whisked through n R few miles or of sand to the pyramids of and the sahl sphinx the life that ebbs and flows along ionic come of the streets of cairo pr presents i sights no less lem varied than its sounds deliberate camels move along wit with brightly dressed breed riders rider s perched ber clied upon them or with suspended barsan cars in which are veiled damsels while ahll e drum drummers ners thunder their rhythm and fife blowers emit their shrill notes snake cliart charm ers era along with their bag ba of snakes snake s magicians perform in some nook bullock carts and laden donkeys compete for space with shin ingo lemou blues gorgeous Gorge colors of every avery hue and shade abade assail the eye rl a post poat impre s tic fanfare of prehistoric color fc chemes the poorer the egyptian the more ragged the more rags the more inore colors then again the arabs denote their families and dy dynasties s by turbans of distinctive colors one thing is certain if a turban trails the ground it menns means that the afie wearer has followed the orthodox custom of having it seven heads long so 80 that it mily may serve to sh shroud him allm when he dies die and keep him mindful of that lat certain end while lie he lives the rao richer women attended by eu eunuchs may be seen in carriages races faces veiled to their eyes eye lashes and and lids fingers and exposed tops toca darkened with henna and bedeck bedecker be decked ed with earrings danklets anklets an klets beads and bracelets ta VM poorer women go afoot also veiled n garbed in plain robes highly y suggestive ol of yotter I hubbardd hubbards Hub bards in the street crowds too are tho the beggars whose baboons babions serve the purpose P ose or of tho the monkeys of our organ grinders inders Kr snake charmers vendors of tile the ubiquitous scarabs and tiny graven images In inges and the Berber lne bead boys the nl at fresco care cafe la Is one of tile the most characteristic mar marks s of cairo it Is not the more or less well ordered affair of the boulevards of paris sidewalks and streets in certain sections overflow I 1 with seemingly innumerable cl chairs lairs and tables until often a single file of pedestrians can hardly force its way through gli quo one gets the impression that few people need to work in cairo ever in the mornings the chairs are filled with apparently prosperous mn sipping coffee or sweetened water pulling elga cigarettes and talking toward noon they disappear for their fiestas siestas si st estas but again nt at four or five 0 they ahey are out in force and remain far into the night among them circulates a stream of peddlers offering for sale almost every conceivable ware from sweetmeats sweet meats to mouse traps and underwear the dweller in cairo who has not his servi servant int ar his group of servants Is low indeed in alic th economic scale these serving men carry tiny bundles for their employers masters one might say they run chead of carriages to clear the way they fan away the flies and one ona utter another they come in troops ined the presence of the prosperous to bring smoking materials or to offer a bewildering succession of drinks and foods life Is hard and a few cents a day batts fles bes them even the porters who carry heavy bundles bur idles and the boatmen who pole the nile craft against the current work twelve or fifteen hours for little more than as many centa cen ts tho oxford of islam in cairo Is the oxford of the mohammedan aloham ham world the university of el EI azhar it seeni seems a queer university to those familiar with the higher institutions of learning of the west its are the halls and niches of a mosque its professors receive no salaries but are primarily religious officials fici als government employees lawyers and the like who teach in addition to tb performing their regular duties tile the pupils wh who oat at times number more than 9 squat on mats while their instructors tors lecture this pre premier niler college of the moslem Alos leni world has bas been in existence for nine hundred and fifty years ani hundreds of thousands 9 or students aavo aava passed through its doors it has bag been the center j it the nationalist propaganda I 1 which vl itch has sought entire freedom for egypt moreover it to la the hotbed of part pan which like ltv companion movement in the past pan would combine its own culture with militarism to dominate tile the world but efin ann would go f urther further and would bring the world as well under the rell religion glon of mohammed at the dawn of Ill history story a city Is known to have existed neair the site of modern modem cairo C tilled called eliere olle ohe blace of combat because honis tin and d seth or of fame fought the there re seth found the body of his brother osiris cut it into fourteen fourte 0 n p parts rt and scattered whereupon isis wife the pieces of 0 osiris hunted the fragments so that she might arec erect t p a monument for ench each that Is why references to so tinny many tombs of osiris are encountered in history not until a cc century before the norman conquest a modern period of E egyptian history was the present collar leader of the cairo founded by troops of the call cal ph following the EMU conquest |