Arizona republican., 1891-12-01

by guide, The eunuchs were mdeous though they represented all ages, from a tall, lank boy of seventeen to a withered old creature beyond sixty.
 The ladies were taking their ease; the mufiiing black silk outer coats, which all Egyptian women of the upper class wear when they leave the house, had been thrown aside, the white face wells had been looseied so that they dropped below the chin Their carriages were waiting below. The most modest of men--a missionary, for instance. or an eutomologist--would, suppose, have put them to flight: but as the tour list season waI over, and as 1t was luncheon time for Europeans, no one appeared but myself, and the ladies strayed hither and thither as they chose, occasionally stopping to hear few words of the explanations which the guide Ca woman also) was vainly trying to give before each important statue.
 With one exception, these Cairo danes were, to say the least, extremely plump; their bare hands were deeply dimpled, their cheeks round. They all had the same very white complexion without rose tints; their features were fairly good, though rather thick; the eyes in each case were beautiful-large, dark, lustrous, with sweeping lashes Their figures, under their loose garments, looked like feather pillows, They were awkward in bearing and gait, but this ,rxkt hag tN ha not hat their small plump feet dn white open work cotton stockings} were squeezed into very tight French slippers with ab- normally high heels, upon which 1t must have been difficult to balance so many dimples,
 The one exception to the rulo of bil- lowy beauty was a slender, even mea- gerly formed girl, who in America would pass perhaps for seventeen; probably she was three years younger. Her thin, dark, restless face, with its beautiful inquiring eyes, was several times close beside mine as we both inspected the golden bracelets and earrings, the neck laces and fan of Queen Ahhotpu, our sister of vanity of $500 years ago. looked more at her than did at the jewels, and she returned my gaze; we might have had conversation. What would l not have given to be able to talk with her in her own tongue? After awhile they all assembled in what is called the winter garden, an up stairs apartment, where grass grows over the floor in formal little plots. Chairs were hropoht and they seated themselves amid this aerial venture to parJaKo oi sherbet, which the youngest eunuch handed about with busineaslike air
 While they were still here, much re. , faxed as regards attire and attitude, my attention was attracted by the rush through the outer room (where myself was seated) of the four older eunuchs. They had been idling about; they had even gone down the stairs, leaving to the youngest of their number the tasl, of serving the sherbet; but now they all appeared again, and the swiftness with which they crossed the outer room and dashed into the winter garden created a breeze. They called to their charges as they came, and there was Q general smoothing down of draperies. The eu- nuchs, however, stood upon no cere- mony; they themselves attired the la- dies in the muffling cloaks, and refas- tenet their veils securely, as nurse dresses children, and with quite as much authority. noticed that the hand somer faces showed no especial haste to disappear from view, but there was no real resistance; there was only good deal of laughter.
 dare say that there was more laugh ter still (under the veils) when the cause of all this haste appeared, coming slowly up the stairs. It was small man of sixty-five or seventy, one of my own countrymen, attired in a linen duster and a travel worn high hat. His silver head was bent over his guide book, and he wore blue spectacles. l don't think he saw anything but blue antiquities, safely made of stone.-Constance Feni- more Woolson in Harper's.