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Show BOKHARA IS VERY PRIMITIVE Interacting Sidelights on Life of an Almost Unknown People Under the Cur's Rule, London Interesting sidelights on the life of the almost unknown people under the rule of tbe czsr In Central Asia were given by Miss twrtatle, F. R. Q. 8., one of tbe first to be elected elect-ed to that body, who has recently returned re-turned from a Journey to Itokhara. "The eleven gales of Bokhara," aald Mlsa Christie, "are still shut every night at sundown, and tbe watchmen parade the streeta after dark beating drums to show they are awake. The people were very friendly. The Bokhara Bok-hara Idea of Justice was direct and to tbe point. They took the condemned con-demned persons up to tbe top of tbe tower and then threw them down. Once was enough. ' "The caravansary lnv the queer town was similar to those usually uvH m Til ' ' ! ' ,-'.,r:1rJ k I IflilU .y.r . . . . . . :v-u',. . At Entrance to Bokhara Mosque. found In the east long ago. Tbe little rooms look out over a small balcony Into the yard. Underneath the rooms the cattle are kept. "All the buildings, with the exception excep-tion of the mosques and the towers, are built of clay, and tbe method of the builders Is simplicity Itself. A wooden framework Is put up, and In the spaces between tbe wooden boards are preased sun dried balls of mud. Then over all comes more mud, sud In a very short time a house Is built and ready for occupation." Mlsa Christie waa fortunate enough to see the emir going to mosque and she also photographed him, which la considered something of a feat, for no one ever knows which of tbe many mosques he intends to enter. It waa a Friday, and a crowd of subjects sub-jects gathered near tbe mosque within with-in a few yards of tbe palace. |
