Show children in cairo it is the poor little children here that most move me to pity and make me lose sight bight of the wonderfully varied and picturesque tur esque scenes of cairo the poor little things borne astride the shoulder of their mothers often seem more dead than alive and the alie little hand elut clutching ching so BO beeb feebly yet confidently to her he headgear is a sight most pitiful it is said that 78 per cent of the children die here in infancy I 1 have seen several funerals of children they aro arc borne along the streets in an open wooden box with a gay pall thrown over it a mot motley ley crowd bearing the box and others following cl 66 a song with not the least degree of feeling or neither the mother nor any woman is ever allowed to follow and at the grave the child is ia taken out of tho the box bos and scarcely wrapped at all is dropped into the sand egypt cor detroit tribune |