| Show 0 U r 1 I 0 a s reat re at C ity 0 r MOHAMMEDAN THINE TUNIS BAZAARS AND ITS I I I I ivy w Correspondence of f the fc X by v Prank G I Copyright by 11 t II ci I teE teET Take 11 It Rent R ot u uthe upon UpI one nc ne of or oft orthe T Tl the th magic ot of 0 t Urn tl th Arabian tty II across acro ss tho Atlan tic lie ocean nail ami over t tho linean to the thc shores or of North Africa frIen your genii to III wl Il et you III down be lie me ni on Oil tl up LII if the be Ii III In thin elty I of cC TunK Ti anil let lel letus lc us IM travel 1 together lO 1 hI bri I hou gli this Lii iii one m of ot 0 1111 oddest populations nt or t ho hI oriental world wo We 1 tf t your eyes VE Iho he I Vast expanse of tiE s bo ho bolow low 10 von vou We e are a h n bot tin th ti I t tn n nil it ft stretches I bC about 41 lioti t on un nil ill sides i look looking ing iii like lilt lIk great RI al Ico ke 1 with bete there tin 1111 lh while ut a 0 of OE iun the th nUll rc DI a ille fi ted lowers I tt i i of or u a 1 mosque 1110 rising them That nd di 1 li brown nation iee t Ion ot oC bu hl I lying IIii g 1 yomi on ih h tj nr HIP un Ih Will 1 is I iho ho now a French i I Il ii ci a I ii that I Ii n t wide ti le ls avenue 11 running aeries J Tan Is IM I th annl cana I which Ii I eb III l H is I I re recently built to 1 bring the thi Ih grit gnu i i i i x Ii x 11 I X I I j 9 I X y y X i 1 Iw y j y yX I 1 X yX J I y yI Y f X I A Ai 1 i i 1 I i r it itt t 1 X t I I f I X T IU X I L o i ic I t c A I 1 J s A Taken rl i r for Cr the i Sew News by Frank I rG G l Carpenter p I IAN AN ARAB PERFUMERY SHOP Wo Ve e Select Stet n Bearded Old Abraham 1 ra right up liP to lo the lh town lown TIaro Ire aro blue lilue mountains on our right with whit white buildings upon them and away off eff ft at al the loft over ovel 01 the lako laki we w ten M the houses of Ball Hou Paid ROd mid tho the I white cathedral which the sito hel old Carthage once onee stood That I was a IL mighty city morn mom mol thin 25 5 centuries c nIU ries I H ago ngo but this town above which we WI vt arc standing was founded oven even be before before before I fore Carthage and Rl U LI throve until it WO vu supplanted by b Its Phoenician 1111 COSMOPOLITAN TUNIS TUIS rho Tunis of or today Is rapidly grow glow BrowIn In III lug jr and It Is now HoW one of o tile tho th most olost cos CDS cosmopolitan towns of the world OrlU It 1 con contains lalM with willi its III suburbs in III the neighbor neighborhood hood of souls soui It has hils hia some something something thing thin like 00 Italians I It has oooo Jews Jew fat far al different In costume and appearance from flom Israelites or of our country cOuntr and also thousands of ot Mill Mal Maltese ful tese lese Sicilians and und Spaniards Its his French arc uro somewhat fewer than luau the tho Italians but the Include a large gar gur garrison rison ot f soldiers dressed In guy gay uni uniforms jut forms who form striking figures Ver they thc go goThe goTlie The most I part lart of ut the Tun isian population Is the Mohammedan element Tills This numbers at III lent least and Its members form Corm the chief Inhabitant tant of old Tunis the great snowy sno town tow tOj tinder our OUI feet They The ate aut orient orientals Ills als of or the and they live In Iu a II world of or their own They rhe do not like Christiana nod and III J tolerate us only b ui t they HUt Their town Is 11 shut off fi Oin the rest or of the th city by hyun an outer enor wall and auth the tho French lI rut I Iq such they are aro allowed I I ell to 10 their own customs and auth do about an nit they please Ouo utO no dare not cuter r n n ny one of ut the hun dred old mosques they KO o dally for fui prayers he hc must buSt not nol visit their anti and he lie who would attempt to hi toKi higo Ki KO Into Inlo one otin of their houe without ml hl ho be killed and ani 1 J doubt It the French would wO object I 1 have visited most of the tile stoat groat cities of at the oriental world I 1 have traveled through India Turkey urlce and l g It and on l I have yet ret to foil find n Il so 80 Icily eastern ns 08 the tho streets of ot old Tunis They are lire und end winding In lii some onie of or o them you ou can call touch lonch the walls on opt both bolh sides and others are arl so narrow burrow thU thit the rat fat Tunisian Iw hero have to suck In Iii their breath In lii order to pass Thc The white houses which wall those these streets ale aro almost without windows and the few rIH windows which exist eNist are ale so o hl h up above HIP 1111 street that thol a 11 laM not 1101 one une ll to It look lookIn lopkIn In They an nl al o IH I NO so small I I that hat I u II leuth would not Itoh t Ii gli them I The e doors thou is urn UN kept l closed outside tie tsi du Ih I uis section sect loti them t hi are Ill nothing I pot It I tug hut Ii U t blank tilt white I IC walls tt I Is Ison on tin both hoth hot ii sides situs Many Inn ny of or the Ihl houses hOlla are III a ro built lou Il t o itt the Ih t lit HII St tee is IIO ii nil garS KOPSI thu vaulted vii ii lied from rein one nile hit Vt of the Ihl I hut to 10 Ihl I hi hii other JN IX i Till lIM Hut Bill ii pit let I ci us step Iel u 1111 I u p o the Ih I lb Ily I t ami ii 11 I iii see HIt fill ft p ii es We W Vi I I of or 0 f till the lit P time 1 hut lii hl I il 1 lir I 1 in nuts m aie 1111 1 St 1 ru n than t I in 0 hose I of a If C it Ii t I I II IIii in ii oC ill the Ih banals pi of 1 ur w I Fez li ii lian I an all 1 Ii ii tit tight acil I HIP t hi l i si p and anda ti I iii a Ph Ihl i willi will viii us its mil ilL ilLI l lf of I f I the I IlL Mm liI n Ii mid II H ii I II n ill 1 I I P 1 VI fur lal lalI I IU II I limn I lint of M Till II n i tin Is I computed or fit II n IIi Ih i I I I I It of I t r ln ys hi neil with stores iiii with Arabs l IM IIII I hg and ii iid s h II hg Vi c 1 shrill shall meet in cc t all 1111 ii I I III P I It h 5 of at if the Arabian mi shall see lice them t ii cat doing hi ness In the HIP We 10 as ns In tile the lh past The TIlt streets of or the lilt bazars me so roofed flint they look hook hIke mighty vaults extending on and on until the iye syo t Is I lost In following them The roofs loots aie ait Ill of stone coated with whitewash wash The bazars ore lighted only I by h united grated itches holes which have lIae been cut I here and and there brought tho th roof root but the sun situ Is so bright that there Is IH plenty enly of ci light and tutu the white while roof Ilof Itself shines like the stalactites ot of tile the CW Of ot Iu Ju Jura u ulay lay ra Some Sante of the passageways or roofed with hoards boards They Thc remind on cute of the old covered bridges of Venice Venier or Florence which hind had 11 ad shops upon them save sae that the Iho Tunisian extend for tor long hong distances and find their shops are aro like nothing to bo be b found outside Ju the art ori orient artent ent nt In lii addition thieve there lire ire smaller ba rais running oft off In III ovary OJ direction and the tho whole Is a n sort of at n a business s monds man ds bower In iii which I low lose myself again und again in trying to IU find tImid my WILY way out OUI OLD IX lZ TUNIS I 1 go on with my lilY um description of ot th bazars bazas let Jel us U look hook at their thou lion The TIme pillars and a met stones itt on ei of old ohl Carthage have been used At U tt the thi lh sides of or each ellch little shop are ume mar lilaI bio ide cot I pus Thor Thieve mo tue UI hundreds yes IH I J thousands of those tho columns huro to be he seen lIen 1111 strange to 10 say suy tile tho Arabs have Im painted the th snowy snow marble with stripes of at red I green anti and black Many Mali are a 1 III In greet green und anti some In iii II bright yellow Similar columns are nr to lU bo ho found lu lii tho tito residence quarters und it is true truo that thaI a u large part purt or of Tunis huts haH hn beet been built from the mini of at that thaI old oh PunIc city In the thin bazars each aeh trade hUH hilts Its own quarter Thero aro are long hong streets tilled filed with cells where the Arabs H make malu nothing but bul shoes and others othier in Iii which the thit shops pIll ate II devoted to weavers In lii some silk Bilk thread Is IH f sold old and In titers others only perfumery or groceries There are also bazars 1 of ot coppersmiths booksellers ers anti tailors BAZAn 0 01 The Tho bazar of at time tho tailors Is ha not miot far farrare from rare tho the Wo Ye push our WILY way through the crowd and take a I look 1001 at nt It We Ve 0 are arc ar in a n covered treet about 12 feet teel In iii width which is paved pad with BelgIan blocks wain smooth by b t the bare feet feol and slippers of ot thousands It Is III walled with I which extend Iii Ui or UI am M fO 0 feet feel hack hink on cm each Ilch side sub n The llio average shop Is IR not nOl more than limn hum eight feet In width its 1111 I is floor floo is III about two lo Ic above the street and this the tailors nit lilt upon it II before bOora tables eight Inches Incites high upon which they tile mo 1110 cutting and sowing lOW III Nicy NH gowns voluminous trou irs s They have hae for fes or nips caps or Dl Many ian of them work away with their goods goodson goodsen on en thou their II and their thIt bate bare feet and bare calves plainly teen Hero Holo at itt my amy nl in Is II n shop Rho where they the aro are sewing upon a IL m or if time the whitt hUrt wool for fat some Arab gentleman and und at nt my imp III left In is a I man mau making a n pair Pail of or lO 10 tot for sown fit fat Jewish Jewl h lady hili Other Oilier taIlors are working on nil gorgeous and vests for fOE both bolh and They Ihl II im P e silk si I h and nud mm nib goldem cloths clothia Indeed ninny of or th Ih the tile aie 11 exceedingly costly CuSP COAti ly liB it you yon IJU may ilia see HOC by hy the richly clad custom era ern who hll In lii the time street LIPId and for tOI om At I 1 10 JO lu III 11 tho th morning hops I 11 or I Ian hi an auction of or clothing In III thin thimi tailor street when sultan gray gi ii bearded ca go 0 about I holding ng Ono fine ii no gannett Ii high ater their They aing out time the and quality of ot the 1110 goods anti and beg tho time people tn lo I ii buy I 1 found nun hUll 1 i no so 1111 11 UC his t moral mig the he t lm it crowd being BO gpo great that I t could hardly lam rd ly my m way WIL through tIP rough Tin KOIK HOUI Hot OK Ol THU PI lilt nUL let lel UK us go gim on out to 10 the it uk of thit Time Tho won worth ord souk It Jim 11 used lined IN uN n it 1 term tOIOI for or tho t be bazars ha zu ms a when yott oil agli aall a iii In I i be n howl Din Iho I ut pp Ii renter cantos you toll tell hum tn 10 Ii uk yell not nul to tn I hn but III Ii to 10 the thu lieu IOU Ks 1111 TIme The urn Ii EC toll ii of ot 0 great prophet niu note Mil nUi pta Iii Hint I hit I thAI I were fro two Iwu I u o I Ii I which Si I I ml iii hit him Im I one wan Willi Ll It tho thU of lit a IL q I I till and it ad thu oth r wu was 1111 cOl t perfume 0 0 Th Hh or th I Great Gm Ah Arabian Trust Queer Business Methods M g the he Orien Oriental I Ital tal Shoemakers and Perfumes Worth Wurth Their Vel lit ht in In Gold How French Tunis Grow Its New Casino Where the tite Audience Gambles Between the Acts A AesA A of o Old Oh Carthage Cartilage Excavated and Phoenician Plays to be Performed 5 There ww 1 5 v ww v v The rime lIt II lmae iuru mm I best of III I 1111 hi not is Id i t ii I ma I II nf iii ill nf it r vlot VI r III HIM I hili I Is lii ii He iii 11 i n 11 m I I II n luil la na K ul of tIlt nt soul sold In hi this hl souk I would co l 1 P PIll I I I Ill pIStil Some wr of if HIP 11 I I h I limit HIP Ih tn lebant n It i IIi I It Ii on out 1111 by ly drop 1111 Iii IiiI I i 1 iby I by lii h nf it n iL Ill bit of iii i cotton i t li I II 1 I ii l hei p from trim am his hi hi Is enrA tui I i A lt we WI n e litT t I I p Ibis th t hip hll ar r so i It 11 boys bays tutu to I m its nun nd try to tu I IMI Pt II tn lii nt at II iliof hOl t I 11 i t I me apt or I V sil i 1 u III a 1 old Alii IH ti i iI II I y raiment I is I all It I III hi g lie III I I u m I m I l lit I he pen by h b lu l m boxe with chili h II rt nf rf I HI I Ih h let lI hl down from a it polo Ir M lit honl l I ii n it mil iii 1 hi 11 I SM P tutu 1 II u p f sit mutt 11 JUKI mu 11 lIa let i ti III i nf if r cotter rn i Ith huh him In lii h a i ks klO it i ito I IIII tn to hI The lh Is ht I mis 1111 s LH ill I In at n rt us mm II mola s and 11 almost t n a its It I 1 I I l nI f H tI t beans Uy ItS Ibin I t ia I In I a n mortar am Is tic brought In lit hot hIli fi fitin 1 i tin thi h hp vr WP n b J I tn in how his bis lie lb 11 lak lakon quit nut on a U rork and It hi gently Iv to III ih I tl J had of or our nIh The Ch boil hu 11 I I Is hut I neil I nn i Ill t HIP Ih i lie wrist U tub HIP th t Iii nett n S I 1 by huy h I I ag up lip ii p our JIll III I si II in 10 I I HIP Ihl I lIe aim and II nil 1 thO tim turk 11 p h liz roie rm Indeed 11 hI he Mumps sin limps us mis II wIt 11 50 st II brandH l Hint hat I when WP Wi WP WI are a I walking nOd the time spent nn so II they HII last for fol The Ih Alah ut its II i not 1111 only on oil n their anil In Iii their heir I but bump ml In It pm their I food and it nil 11 drink uk There err l t talt Q Qan nn an of oran v bleh Is ts Sold note with cit hm tea ami there hire I ale a u ii iii bc perfumes H tot for vIl arlou 1 S AM 10 INU TUB fill 1 I linn huu some time today among the shoemakers There Is in n mu lung bug St meet devoted ii ul cub to 10 I lid I shops iii 1 there Ihor t hi ore were 1 Ii of oC I f men em ami boys 1133 working mu p in III I j It when I 1 saw f aw II it luIA They Th wel cutting out atit lIl shoes of blight jellow Illow and andred mm nih Ted red leather and J sewing them 11 Into Int The Ill hl yellow shoes 1 fit turn tacIt and tile Hie Ih red reil for the h women They W II O also al o many ninny hon for fir chill chil children hll dren About nil all mm I I the 1111 t hi footwear room ven i of a t tin iii tO world I 11 IS il hums Hum I by iY II hand Ito ad find and It might iii I III I ur a Li good go 1 idia II in for Ur UrOil some Oil iti bright Ii tn t it SIt up lIP a it factory here hel and a ud supply time the I h trade The 1111 Tunisian a henh Is moth ing like Ilk that nf of the lh American These emit cut and pound JOlt upon ii II n section sect of a n tiep lIc hike ilkI II n butchers rN hI k raised rJ I upon legs They Th do not 1101 use hammers I I I I I lit liti i IL p AN ARAB ARAn SHOEMAKER Taken Tn lii fm t Hi I 1 II vi h i Fruik n t tI J JI I jl i ii I Ii i I mat but II pound tin Ih p nh r it III II i j I rs nt at n p 5 n lit i i tin Ih I Ity 11 b ii I held h lh In iii Hi lit hum hll tin h ai an in unlike M a 1 brills pup pin Item himl The 1111 leather work k if I Tunis i i is f H shins are ure sold 1 1 oer v whole A eI pair 1111 PH hr eim be I Li tnt ern 7 nt A item ill i ott near I r Hun I of tip I ilie i hi shun shoo hlll Is II devoted 1 to Iho I hR s nail UI 1 nt hers I lu III it tt u I tin lilt hit IIII s I nf If r poi nt 01 I 0 ItS ami it Iii I silks lIk There aro III a in also alo a ln ninny i 1 iii sit ms tilled Ii I lot I with old und new carpels ami II I it I many which iv Ii ich 1111 ii pi sc f fine huh work timica and 1111 a I ml embroidery lint a itch Cute re I with toothier mother of ot cArl now IIO TUB iiri HAUl no S All 11 I P trading I In g among mm I l tutu am imie as Is II by h P t hut hll There 1 art a re no UI mm fixed n ii prices I I ri CS Pt I Ii rebut lii ii always I 1 unit s sask a Ilk ask k more than they to Iu I k I or up I liep bIrd am 1111 II Id to lii hul that thul I I Hie thi hI denier often me time ami tuiti 1111 Kin glues III lull e Ih I I goods This 1115 Is ts so s with uc Ith tin P I hi II lew who have shops In the Ih p They girt g a II or of r r III in 10 per IWI percent cent Cpu 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