Show The Shahs Shah's Days Day's Vo Work k A vivid account of the tho daily life of the shah of Persia is contributed to The Illustrated Magazine by Mr 1 J J. F. F Fraser Fra Fra- Fraser Fraser ser who visited Teheran iu lathe tho course courso of If his worlds world's tour on ou a bicycle How does the tho shah shab spend an ordinary ordinary ordinary nary day Well ho hois is a busy man Ho He rises early performs his devotions has bas hasa basa a piece of thin pasty Persian bread and anda a glass of sweetened tea Then at about S St g o'clock ho he receives his ministers Ho Hois Hois is enly in iu habit habit- and walks up and down the room with his Jis slippers flip flip- flapping Indeed time tho story goes that tho the reason ho parted with his first wife was wa's was because she constantly complained that he lid did not wash himself He dictates dozens of letters hears hears' dispatches r read ad consults authorities attends attends attends at at- tends minutely to every detail detail of of busi busi- ness This continues for six hours at a stretch Then ho has his breakfast All the tho food is carefully prepared and amI a prince of the tho royal blood is responsible that no tricks aro are played Tho The shah according ac- ac cording to to etiquette eats alone Be- Be tween-SO tween 50 and CO GO dish dishes s are served but out buthis his only touches two or three Knives and forks aro are things unknown at lt court and the tho shah shah oats oats everything with his fingers fingers greased rice mutton and fruit During breakfast extracts from from from-En- Eu Eu European European papers chiefly French are read to the shah Following breakfast th the shah probably has an hours hour's sleep and then Otter after some somo glasses of tea ho will be-will will amuse himself with working a n little telegraph instrument playing backgammon mon with his ministers who ministers who aro are careful careful careful care care- ful not lot to win win setting an and aud resetting plants in iu the gardens or taking photo photo- graphs He has even been photo photographed in bed and has pictures of himself dressed dressed dressed dress dress- ed in lin i uncomfortable Prussian military had oven even in the tho garb of f an English Eng Eng- lish ra |