Show GRACE OF ORIENTAL PEOPLE traveler notes fact with some feel ing of jealousy passing us occasionally going to jerusalem with butter and eggs and little jars of leben that showed their thick creamy throats as they were held hold up to us were small companies ot of women in single file As one blue procession went by the leader called to us why should you ride and we walk why is your lot better than ours given the opportunity for leisurely argument we e could not by any philosophy have made satis factory answer anser we could only admit the fact as they saw it and recognize the universal world plaint of dis content they carry themselves these there women like figures on an antique frieze As they stride along holding in sure balance on their heads their jars and baskets of homely produce they tread the steny paths with the grace and largeness of action that we of the oc aident have grown to regard as belonging only to the age ago of the men are also admirable in the simplicity of their gestures phd big lines of their attitudes the swing of their draperies I 1 saw a louth auth fling his mantle over his shoulders and fold it about him exactly in the man ner of the classic greek sculptural 1 in his finely unconscious pose god save the day when these sons ot of ca naan clothe their limbs I 1 in our ungainly garments metropolitan magazine |