Show IG EGYPT H ml II IN 1 f Tr j I WI Tf 1 Pleasures of or an Excursion in the Immediate Vicinity of Historic Cairo r 1 Ill F HOW PEOPLE Lunching lies Ide a Fallen Statue of or orI I Traveling by b Train Donkey add Horseback Correspondence Cairo Jan In the he capital of t are arc the this contrasts to be witnessed of Jf f place where I the old ohl and ami Ih lift new now meet Each cacti J ach na nr I In Cairo lias hai Its own quarter I ter teu In the Iho Arab quarter there still II li the decadence of Egypt a settle ettle with ith narrow n mol crooked streets full tull of at the unclean nights and odors prevalent In oriental towns of ot the old time Hero Here donkey drivers shriek k neighbors quarrel merchants oreain their wares ami ani veiled women In black glide Elide alluringly to and fro ho as n If It apol apologizing for being on the earth In la the hotels and In the quarters where French rench English and Americans AmerIcan live hiVe electric lights Hash electric trolley cans cam whiz past ast the tho dinners and dances tance of white women and men lire arc ns RS as UM splendid and as liS full fail of c vanity and flirting as If It a section of oC i fashionable society hail had been sliced out of New Naw York Paris or London nd do 10 1 here In the tha heart henrt of it tion which taught Moses magic and jurisprudence Prom November to March here hero Is h j the th season of seedtime and harvest In n r midwinter vegetation Is at Its ita height of luxuriance To see sec the rural life lite i nf ot Egypt l gIt one can make little Journeys of ot a lay out of Cairo Into the tural region melon hereabout On C n a R Mohammedan festal day lIay late Inte I k ly Iy B R small party left Cairo by train I r very ery early lu In the thu morning to get fet well wellon wellon Wellon on their Journey before betor the heat hent of pt the lay day was on Oit them They Tho took guides gullies with themi tiem also Arab horses for Cor they meant intent to ride back reaching Cairo by moonlight The fhe horses were vere put In a II upon the train Southward tho ho Nile railway train moves along I t one OM two three stations station At the fourth the tourists alight Already the tho temperature rises high lilith Tho party leaves bayes Its horses hora In the tho 13 shade of ot nomo palm trees They Thc must mu t bo b fresh for tor the tho long ride hack back to Cai Cili Cairo ro to Immediately they tho leave lono tho rail roll railway way vay car cor swarms of Arab boy donkey ey drivers surround the travelers begging them to mount and ride the ridiculous ly Iy small dingy beasts that wait wil near by The tiny donkeys look like those the children ride at shows shown In America t for a 11 nickel apiece but they th y are arc strong enough OUR to boar the tho weight of or a 11 man l The friends select one apiece of the little brutes brute mount their th lr hacks and trot through dirty with Its lis mud mutt houses honl s They are going to visit 1 lt the famous amous fallen statue of ot s II 11 which lies In a palm lalm grove a 0 few tew miles away aSay Once how long Jong stood erect er ct 21 2 feet fee high majestic majc splendid Its Inscrutable gran i lie ito face faco bathed buthel In III tho the red reil light of tho the r rising sing sun suit In the tho morning and of the tho sinking lInking sun aUn In the evening Now there is I none to do 10 It reverence except white tourists who come Collie train from western lands and ana gaze gate with awe and wonder upon I the prone proM V limbs ml tho ho stone lips I around which the donkey donke boys bos climb und and play f The donko donkey boys boya bO have hILo I my tho the Brt great Ireat Rt I statue e asleep Ills lII Egypt Egypti pt hAS 1 to tho tile touch of modern i life lite i and hustle Hc lie heeds it beside nn the tho tremendous granite It not Along it M I the h common highway h lIh Camel COlnel I traino the lie animals ladell w with h fodder 1 from the to ho be taken Men to Cairo Catro stride and Jolt post past h him m The camels camelo L 1 j are strung hW together the n none nolle M of one n e be he beh h J I 1 the Ing h held iJ tall I I of or by the R IL one olle ahead rope matte mUllo fast tut to Men Ien women children and donkeys i trail I i by 7 with H i 1 cel ele s chattering I clattering braying noise Nile No water i 1 cd cheat unit r l br brIlliant i j men green stretch away to right and Ht lt t ot of the JV irone tho long lIr rK ou I t I t J frond fronds ot of the tato palm groves ve wave In Ic I l th the Indo All the fields II lire are ro Irrigated il Ditches and I I dikes Interlace them The C t rude rUIe which draw water waler up lip ti I from the jho Nile nn nail l Its canals are of n the tho pattern of ot the tho lithe times time Now a IL I j sIo Ie sleepy bullock turns turna tho the crr crant i inch the Iho water waler bucket hUck t No Na r i j more lucre man power IH io employed Under r c I tho the trees treeK the lie res Ind 1 eat L Ii their lunch tilt 1111 Ih tho heRI to ti mount again liln the I I tiny anti d return turn to lu n I there thorn to 10 tho ho Arab horses h t tilt t to tiki i f 8 h they IvRo e litter after village on the tho the Iho natives say aay n lo to them nm I tJ t III J v vm your our r day be bo happy and blessed |