Show Bedouins and Egyptians R Talbot Kelly the English artist writes a paper for the February Century Cen-tury entitled In the Desert With the Bedouin for which he furnishes many striking illustrations Concerning Concern-ing the Arabs Mr Kelly says Lacking Lack-Ing education themselves their respect for superior knowledge is great and they eagerly listen to and absorb such information as may be gleaned in their casual Intercourse with the peoples met during their wanderings However great as is their respect for knowledge they hold horsemanship in still greater I esteem and I attribute much of my I I success in dealing with the Arabs to I the fact that I could ride the half wild desert stallions in which my previous experience of rough riding in J Morocco stood me in good stand Indeed In-deed their contempt for their neighbors neigh-bors the Egyptians is completely expressed ex-pressed in their common reference to them as those dirty Egyptians who cannot ride a horse 1 may here remark re-mark that In their habits and persons the Bedouins are a very clean people I a claim the most ardent admirer of the i Egyptians can hardly maintain in their i case and I have known of Arabs who I obliged to cross the delta have carried 4 out with them sufficient desert sand i with which to cover the ground before 1 they would deign to pitch their tents I or sit upon the dirty soil of Masr Differing from the Egyptians In many essential points their love for dumb animals Is in marked contrast to the I cruelty practised upon them by nearly i all classes In Egypt but perhaps In no i way is the contrast more cleanly shown than by the respect In which the Bedouin hold their womankind Moslems of the strictest type they seem to practice all that Is good in Mohammedanism and avail themselves them-selves but little of Us license |