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Show WSTE AND RUIN IN MOROCCO. Beautiful Dwellings Erected and Allowed Al-lowed to Decay. In Morocco they build and make, and they do both things beautifully and well, according to one who has been theie Hut they seldom finish "hi n house dainty with fountains and arabesques and colored Hies, he sa)8, ")ou will still find a corner uncompleted, un-completed, a pillar which lacks the delicate (luting of the other pillars, an embrasure for a cluck half ornamented ornament-ed with gold filagree and half left plain And, If they seldom llntsh they nrur b) an) chance repair The mansion man-sion Is built and decorated within; nitihts tit tiles together In a mosaic of cool colors and carve and gild and paint the little pieces of cedar wood ami glue them Into the light and rolnted arches, the rich curtains aro hung, and the master enteis into his possession Thero follows the procession proces-sion of the generations The tiles crack, the woodwork of the arches splits and fills and the walls break and crumble 'I he householder sits Indifferent and the whole house corrodes cor-rodes Ko In the narrow stre"ts, holes gap nnd the water wenis a channel where It will and tho mud lies thick nnd slipper) on the rounded atones; the htnots run steeply up and down the hills, wind abruptl) lound corners and illvo Into tunnels' |