Show ALIAH AND AMBRICAS In Persia on a morning after the I vermin had been particularly vigorous I said something caustic about getting i back to Gods country An Armenian who had reppsedJn utter comfort In the same caravanserai heard It and smiled Being an Armenian he hated the Persians probably Incidentally the Persian reciprocates Well this Armenian rubbing his hands and with his head skewed over on one side said The Persians they have a legend for everything They have n legend for what you safd just now I Is this Allah that Is God once said to his angel I will see this world which I made And s Allah and the angel descended descend-ed invisible 1n a cloud to tjie earth and the first place at which they arrived ar-rived was France that is in Fercng hlslan And there they saw the railroads rail-roads and the tramways and the theaters thea-ters and the great picture galleries And Allah looked In disappointment und said Alas no This Is nOl the world which I made I made none of these things So they Journeyed to InleL < tan that Is England and there were mighty ships In the harbors and huge I inlJls which make all sorts of things and food In plenty And again Allah I said Alas no this Is not the world I which I made And everywhere they traveled In the cloud Allah looked upon the land and said No this Is not It At last In despair the angel led the way to Persia and Allah sat himself down upon a very high mountain and i looking far on every side he saw neither railroads nor tramways nor I theaters nor picturegalleries nor ships nor mills nor achoolhouses nor plenty to eat I And Allah said Yes at last This is the world which I made Not n thing Is changed The people whom I put here have done nothing S Why didnt he come to America I asked Sir answered the Armenian in Persia they had not even heard of AmclICaJ Weekly K Mumford In Harpers S |