Show cairol CURSE OF affliction little heeded by the fatal lets of the est east tho first thing that impresses the I 1 stranger at calto calio Is the number of blind mon men women and children Lh Ildren to be found everywhere in the shops and on tho the streets Is 13 very pre prevalent alent throughout egypt because of superstition concerning the evil ee 05 e the native mothers of the middle or the lower class do not wash mash the eyes of their babes at all watching the illes flies buzzing un on heeded around and upon these blind children a stranger hastens to buy a fly wilsk these are for salo sale ev every ory where and aro are quite attractive with their ornaments of fancy beads a and n d palm leaf fiber blind beggars gree greet t one at every corner even in t the he high class egyptian families there are many blind the lower classes ol of egyptians are given much to has heesh that Is the lower classes in the large cities and although it la 18 against the law to sell it one will have the has hashe osh places pointed out and the men who smoke the drug are seen every everywhere whore they are distan gulshen by the peculiar appearance of their eyes which become red swollen and baggy underneath find and by the peculiar color of the skin which resembles somewhat what the skin of a chinese opium smoker leslie lesliea 0 weekly |