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Show "WONDERFUL BAGDAD.' THE CITY WHERE CHILDISH FANCY LOVES TO tlOAM. That 1lappal XtranCF Ttilnisa We Head orlnlh "Arabian Mjlil." lo-tuinrs, lo-tuinrs, llaklts, Ntrrrla, llullillnr. ami lliaits. (Special litter) There hi something delightfully quaint In tlio idea of the camera being be-ing turned on the town of Bagdad, the famous elty of the nnclent khallltii ami of Uie Immortal Haruun-nl-Itachld "Adown the Tigris 1 waa borne by IlaicUad a atreanu of fretted ROhl ' lliat was tho Image of Lord Tonnaon In the language of the gatotteers however. Ilagdad la situated In the desert on the left bank of the Tigris In Mesopotamia (or Turkish Arabia) It la scarcely the tligdad of old, for the elxty great towere which formed part of tho seml-clrcled rampart eur-roundlng eur-roundlng the town nro In a sad atuto of ruin. Anil yet. with the Inveteracy of orientalism, Ilagdad retains much of Ita pristine glory and all of Ita former ruitoma The splendid "Mom ' described In "The Thousand and One Nlghta" are still to be seen, the famous fa-mous gardens allll bloom, while the people have clung to the costuming of the time of Omar and Anoo Bhlrsln The people wear the turban and the abba, a kind of orercoat made of camel cam-el a hair. The women know not tho tallor-mnde Today they Insist on enveloping en-veloping themselves In their Irnprne- a street in iiaodad. trable veil, which hides their faces even from their own family And you will allll sco floating on tho Tlgrla tho a mo otd boils, or kouffa, that might havo floater any tlmo 3,000 yeara and more. 1 heso boats nro modo of straw and dale-tree mats, covered with Pitch, and look exactly llko the floating float-ing basket In which Mosea was found To sail down the Tlgrla la n verltaulo dream of pleasure, for the banks nro lined with beautiful trees, and In aprlng time tho cl'mnto Is delicious Ono ran Imagine tho seem being cine-mntographed cine-mntographed on tho pinorama principle princi-ple at tho Alhambra or Empire. |