Show A LAND THAT NEVER CHANGES egypt has not been modernized either aa to costume or custom the characters of the thousand and one nights may be almost imagined to step out of their setting of words and take form and glow with the generous warmth of life before ones very ayee says a writer in the Gent lemans magazine the natives still drink the same coffee and out of tho same cups they smoke the same pipes they wear generally the same dress they play the same primitive instruments st that whisper the same strange and plaintive tones the funeral professions processions process ions wend their way along tho streets as of old the popular festivals or are still observed with the tiame untiring capacity for enjoyment the public reci still practice their professions before admiring crowds the water carriers still carry their burdens BO welcome to lips except in the houses of the rich and thoroughly europeanized food is detill eaten with the finders and in the same manner and the hands are washed with the same basins and ewers the mosque of el azhar still attracts its crowd of students even the old wooden locks and keys are still in use and the water jars are still kept cool in the lattice work of the overhanging mush window frames instances of this sort might be multiplied a hundred fold it is indeed a wonderful change and contrast that is presented to the eye when you leave alie european and enter the native quarter and the mind and feelings turn in unison and become attuned to the changed scene the sense of taking part in a new and different life steals over you and you temporarily throw off your affinity with the west and the nineteenth century the clock 0 IB for the moment put back for you |