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Show Ancient City of Egypt Street Scenes in Cairo Strange to Western Eyes, Gorgeous in Their "Vivid Colorings Moslems in the House of Prayer. , - (Special Correspond be acquainted with some art or occi patlon 1.-' whL-" he may be able to support 1. itself and those dependent on him, anc fulfil .'is moral and religious reli-gious obligations. l result is that Cairo abounds in inter, sting manufactures manufac-tures pursued ip the -ery simplest fashion. Slipper inakers .- seen putting put-ting together slippers red or yellow, while others embroider them vith gold or silver thread. Silversmi'hs are fashioning bangles and brooches and charms against the Evi! Eye. Brass workers, with nothing more thin a hammer or a nail are carving elaborate elabor-ate patterns on metal discs or bow.i. Pipe makers are busy at their task, some of them producing wonderful things in the way of hookahs ano nargilehs. Gunsmiths are forging long f THE traveler, there . TwwI. is no more charming fjmfjV. Place in the world than sCl the famous old Egyptian Jv city .of Cairo. More oriental than Damascus or Algiers or Samar-.jwjjs Samar-.jwjjs card; more fascinating "j than Geneva or Paris; immensely more romantic ro-mantic than- London or Berlin; safer and more hospitable than Constantinople, Con-stantinople, a visit to Cairo is an experience ex-perience of lasting charm. There is nothing in the world so romantic and wonderful as an Arab city; and of all Arab cities Cairo is the queen. A day spent in Cairo is a new revelation revela-tion of color and romance to the inhabitant in-habitant of the West. Camels stream down from the Nile region with Nubians Nu-bians on their back, the coal-black faces of the men thrown into striking relief by their white turbans. Dreamy Turks, with their long pipes, smoke gravely on their ambling donkeys. Blind beggars plead for alms, invoking invok-ing the blessing of Allah on all who show them mercy. Itinerant cooks, with portable kitchens, sell their eatables eat-ables to customers who dine in the streets. Vendors of oranges with dusky dus-ky faces and baskets piled with tne golden fruit cry as we pass, "O, oranges, sweeter than honey." Sellers of water, .clothed in costumes rich with eastern color, ply their trade, chinking their brazen saucers to give notice of their coming. Haughty pashas flash by, lounging in their victorias vic-torias behind beautiful Russian horses. Ladies nutter to and fro like doves barrels and inlaying gun stocks with silver and ivory. Boys are making combs out of hard white wood. The turners of wood, whose chief occupation occupa-tion is that of making lattice work for windows and ornamental carved work for decoration, are very numerous and very skilful. Closely associated with the manual arts of the working people of Cairo are the bazaars, in which they find purchasers pur-chasers for their products. The Oriental Orien-tal is for the most part a dreamy, dignified and contemplative being, but, in the bazaar he wakes up into eager and vivid life. The bazaars of Cairo, are justly famous for their color and their charm. They form a seemingly endless labyrinth of courts and arcades, ar-cades, some open to the sky, others under a vaulted roof through which the light falls softlyv-arcades long. J t pVs j ,) I t4: .... 1 11 'l j ' 4 $ - OT-i-itM' 111$ JtZ t - ' - - ------J PYLON OF KARNAK. ' (Thebes.) in their light-colored silk cloaks with soft eyes gleaming above the muslin veils which reach from the nose to the feet. Women of the poorer class move wearily onwards, clothed in their blue gowns, beneath which their limbs are clearly defined some full of youth and grace and others bowing with the weight of years. The serpent charmer pauses in front of you, and setting down his has upon the pavement calls out his snakes to the music of his wailng reed. Next comes the sorceress sorcer-ess with her chickens hidden in her breast and her cry of "Galla! galla! galla!" as they appear or disappear at the bidding of the dark enchantress. British soldiers of the army of occupation occupa-tion stalk proudly past to the music of their clinking spurs, and now the dusky crowd makes way for the carriage car-riage of Lord Cromer, before which the Arab outrunners dart gracefully along with their lithe limbs and richly-embroidered richly-embroidered vests. . A striking panorama this, in the vision vi-sion of which the European finds ample am-ple food for astonishment and wonder. won-der. Add to this the general sense of light and brightness and the exhilaration exhila-ration of an atmosphere more buoyant than you have ever breathed before. There are few sights in the worl(! more interesting than a walk through the labyrinth of lanes in Cairo where I in their small open shops the people I are following their several trades. The j Moslem religion specially promotes industry by requiring that every man j straight, and broad, with modern .shops; arcades narrow, winding and ancient, with dark recesses, where figures in turbans and long robes richly rich-ly embroidered, squat among the merchandise mer-chandise thumbing the Koran or reciting re-citing prayers until some customer gains their attention. The mosques in Cairo are about four hundred in number, some of them in ruins, but nearly all in daily use. They, are always open and afford a cool, quiet retreat out of the glare of the sun and the noise of the public street Water is provided at their portalt. for the dusty feet of the pilgrim, and a clean mat within on which he may kneel and pray with his face toward Mecca. Within their hushed walls, with no images to distract the mind and no ritual to enchain the senses, the devout worshipper may realize the presence of the Unseen. As hospitable hospit-able to the beggar in rags as to the oasha in his silks, at ail hours you will see men within them praying or reading the Koran, unconscious of any observers. None, who have witnessed it, can doubt the sincerity of Moslem worship. Their aspect and behavior In the mosque is that of calm and modest piety. The pride and fanaticism which they exhibit in common life, in their intercourse with inferior people, or with persons of a different faith, seem to be utterly laid aside on their entering enter-ing the House of Prayer, and they appear ap-pear wholly absorbed in the adoration of the Creator. |