Show t r i t. t H 1 The he Fortunes of Otis Clavering Brown BrownI V 1 1 I By H. H T. T Webster I 24 2 4 Ii G e X fill i 1 0 0 0 1 Th r P I V Z iA i ThE A Noe A SNAPSHOT OF THE X TOWARD OWARD me FL v t CATHO CATRO Egypt Paintings of the Sphinx and P n. n never show a trolley car in in tho the f foreground rc round nor do romancers of the Robert school tell teU us tig what a actually occurs when tho traveler visits the historic monuments These little omissions were responsible for the worst jolt Ive I've experienced thus far I T used to dream of tho the da day when I should climb aboard a came camel at Cairo find and strike out across tho the burn burning n desert desert des des- ert ert- winding up tip at the tho Pyramids in a a ablaze ablaze blaze of glory and stand standing n there thero speechless with ith awe and emotion This is what happened A trolley car took me to the spot A A. few steps from tho the station is a at large c hotel jammed with tourists and in in n the shade of the tho Great Pyramid were guests playing ing golf of Can you imagine any anyone ono one going to tho the Pyramids to play lay Wh Why one r might as properly go o to St. St Peters Peter's or the Louvre Lonne for foi roller ing i to It was Impossible to stand tan and view that gigantic pile file of stone with the deafening babel babe of voices about mo me mo so 50 soi soI i I moved toward tho the with Hh t tho e r caravan still at my heels On the way we pa passed ed other tourists each with a group of native nati vultures hovering around him By Ity the time I reached the Sphinx my mv crowd bad had reached the proportions o ot ofa a rc regiment and the general gen gen- en eral effect would have compared favorably favor favor- ably with Alexander Alexanders s army when whon that gentleman called on tho the Sphinx Inci mci- dentally tho the painting by bv Gerome of Napoleon along alon before the Sphinx i ill is the most monstrous and glaring larin faKe faIe of all tho pictures on 01 this sublet subject There re was not a suggestion of 3 a a. guide or a postcard postcard post posh car card merchant in it Tourists are arc fond of being photographed photo photo- graphed with surroundings and md professional photographers arc stationed there every lay day with ill all the a accessories ces for a genuine ne oriental picture They provide Mr Tr Hiram Oatcake and family of Norwalk Ohio with a camel each make them throw out their r chests and put their arms akimbo just like hardened har hare cl globe trotters trotter do lio aud then press the tho bulb One can easily imagine in tho the sensation that picture will c cause when all of or Norwalk Norwalk Nor Nor- walk calls aIls al S at t the Oatcake home to s see e the curios The social status statue of tho the family will be solid forever forever or or a aleast at least until some other citizen brings back a n similar proof of superiority From the greatest objects in E Egypt t to the smallest is something of a jump but this letter would not be bo complete I without Jt a note about the fly II In the first place E Egypt t is almost almos black with flies There are more o of them than there are be beggars g rs This may sound like exaggeration but it int The striking thing about the fly lly Is the natives native's ind indifference to it One Ono or two files flics in the bedroom of an occidental dental will keep h him m awake and cussing all ni night ht but a million flies around an anE E Egyptian would merely soothe Boothe him to sleep On the streets of Cairo we ht harseen har haYe seen men and boys asleep with every cery inch of or their features feature black with flies flics Two explanations are given for this strange treatment of the pest post One Ono is that thatto To to harm tho the Insect would bo be a violation of a Religious ous principle The Theother Theother I Iother other attributes it to downright laziness laziness laziness lazi lazi- ness and this thi last strikes strikes' me as the themore themore more mole plat plausible sib e of the two OTIS OTIS' CLAVERING BROWN |