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Show Flappers Succumb to Lure of Camel Riding Morocco means camels and sheiks to the shoals of American schoolgirls who Invade the country each autumn chaperoned by Paris finishing school teachers. Marrakech sees most of them, because they find the herds there which make camel rides possible. possi-ble. No debutante considers her tour complete until she has been camel riding. Sheiks are harder to find, the type being a product of the desert interiors. in-teriors. The schoolgirls visit Morocco early In the fall, at the Christmas holiday or late in the spring. Marrakech the Red, under the shadows of the high Atlas, is the only city where camels in numbers may be obtained, and so the girls do most of their camel riding rid-ing there. Only the freight-carrying type of animal is available. There are no swift "ships of the desert" for . tlie young tourists. But that does not detract from the enjoyment of the flappers, to whom any camel Is a camel. London Daily Mail. |