Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-28
Cairo After the War,
From the London Globe

From the London Globe.
The rolling stock of the railway station has
certainly not improved since was in Egypt.
The leather and springs Of the cushions and
seats are the worse for wear. The oil cloth on
the floor is all cut up.
Absolutely nothing has suffered In nv house
from the four months neglect As regards dust
some of those old Offices Dickens describes were
clean compared to the thick brown coating
which covered everything in nv rooms The
two bedrooms and dining-roOm were cleared of
1t somewhat in view of my return, but there ia
weeks work of cleaning and turning out to be
done LII the house before it is again respectable
found everything just as | had left it on June
u, the dirty tea things used at our last meal
some fossil bread and butter teapot with
mOuldy tea leaves in it, and cobwebs from chair
TO chair. and from table to floor etc The
sheets, towels and other coverings used to throw
over piano and other furniture looked ike old
leather in color. and one could not tell what
OBJECTS were until shaken free from this cloth
lnr Oh dust. The broken windows. of course
LIT in latterly no end of this. / was glad wehad
taken down and carefully folded every curtain
In the house before leaving Oh that neyer-tO- be-
forgotten OCCASION They come out now fresh
and clean. and untouched by moth or mouse
Beetles and sllYertails were plentiful but do not
seem to have done any damage took off the
carpet and sheet | had thrown over the piano
tichipiihSH, expecting TO ina the instrument
innocent of red cloth or felt, but, wonderful
t. relate, everything was intact. / struck
few chords, the tone was as rich as ever
and in good tune. 1 breathed again. and
played God Save the Queen The Eng
lsh horses, l noticed, were sadly reduced
In flesh, and looked all like old animals Many
troopers were mounted on horses taken from
the Arab cavalry. bearing the Egyptian war
office brand on the flank. Soldiers making their
way TO or from the camp bestrode the Cairo
donkeys, and looked, of course ridiculous, es-
pecialiy the long cavalrymen, booted and
spurred. Beyond few houses having been
robbed by unfaithful servants, who thought
no wise suffered from the state of affairs Every
now and then Gin Alexandria at least J rumor
gets about that there is going to be a row, and
the Europeans at nightf;Al keep within their
houses. similar rumOr that the Christians are
going to pitch into the Arabs gains ground in
the native circles, and they stop at home
Neither has any foundation, and all ends in
smoke. These scares are but natural and until
time s0othes the still excited Imagination on
both sides. such runOrs may from time to time
crop up. Native dogs aud cats especially dogs
are few about the city now. The Arab rOughs
all over the country were wont to put feZ on
one dog and something like a European hat or
helmet on another, and call them Khedive and
SeymOri (SeynOur). The last word, | am in
formed. Is another Arab term for dog or mon
grel; then these dogs were dragged about with
cords round their Decks. and subjected to every
species of torture, until finally they were dis
patched-nence the scarcity Of dogs MANY
cats died, rs numbers of families left and the
cats could not all find food.