The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1892-01-22
DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1892.
N An EGYPTIAN APARTMENT HOUSE.
Interesting s,ccm"s in 81 Lodging Place In
tho City OF Cairo.

Interesting :sCG!;Ns in ~ Lodging Place In
tho City or Cairo.
The two .co'ns nearest us belonged to
FL Azlar students. so Mustapha said.
He could speak no English, but lie inn
parted the information in Arabic to our
drasom&n. Seeing that we were mora
interested in the general scene than in
his red jugs, Mustaplla left the Assiout
ware to its fate. and lighting cigarette
seated himself on the railing with u dis
engaged air, as much as to say: ''Two
more mad womenl But it's nothing to
me-"
One Of the students was evidently an
ascetic. Iiis. room contained piles of
books and pamphlets, and almost moth
ing else. his ono rug was spread out
close to the front III order to get the
light, and placed upon it we saw his
open in&stana, Ills re,s and u page Of
freshly copied manuscript. When we
asked where he was, Mustapha replied
that lie had gone down to the fountain
to wash himself, SO that he could say his
prayers.
The second chamber belonged to q
student Of another disposition; this ex-
travagant young man had three rugs;
clothes hung frcin pegs upon his wallu,
and he possessed all extra pair of lemoa
cclorel slippefs; in addition VIC s,lw
cups and salcers upon shelf. Only
two books We're visible, and these We're
put away in 81 corner; instead of books
he had flowers; the whole place was
adorned with than; pots containing
plants i'll full bloom We're standing on
siie floor round the walls of his largely
exposed abode, and We're also drawn up
IN two rows ill the passageway outside,
where lie himself, sitting on mat, WI,
sewing. Eis blossoms were so gay tla /
illvo'unsarily we smiled. Whcrenpun
Ga. smiled too. and gave us a salaln.
Opposite the rooms Of the students
there WAS - large chamber almost en-
tirely filled with white bales, like small
cotton bales; III u niche between there
high piles an old man knecling at tlls
threshold WIS washing something in u
large eartAcuwale tub OF a pink tint
His body was bare from the waist up
ward, and as he bent over his task his
short chest, with all the ribs clearly
visible, his long brown back with the
vertebrm of the spine standing out, and
his lean, seesawing arms looked Skeleton
like, while his head, supported on a
small wizencd throat, was adorned with
such AL enormous bobbing turban, dark
green in hue, that it rasembled vegeta
tion Of some sort-a colossal cabbage
Directly behind lilm, also on the thresh.
oil II,
countenaMco expressed fixed mis:n-
thropy.
Every now aud then this creature
who was secured by IL long loose cord.
aacendesl slowly to- the top of the bales
sad came down Oh the other side, facing
his master. He then looked deeply into
the tub for several minutes, touched the
water carefully with his small black
hand. withdrew it and inspected the
palm. and then returned graycly, and
by the same roundabout way over tLa
bales, to resume his position at the door
sill. looking as if he could not under
stand the folly of such unnecessary and
silly Toll.
In another sl,ambcra large very black
negro, dressed in pura white, was seated
upon the floor. With his feet stretched
out in front of him, his hands placed
stiiily Oh his knees. his eyes staring
straight before him. Eewas motionless;
he seemed hardly t, breathe.
"What is he DOING l said to the
dragonan.
"Re: Oh. he berry good man; he
pray"
In 81 chamber next to the negro two
grave old Arabs We're playing chess.
They. We're perched upon one of those
Cairo settees which look like square
chicken coops. One often sees these
seats i'll the streets, placed for messel-
gers and porters. and for some time l
took them for actual chicken coops, and
wondered why they were always empty.
Chickens might we'll have Inhabited the
one used by the chess players, for ths
central court upon which all these cham
brrs opened was covered with layer of
rubbish and dirt several I,ches thick,
which contained many of tn.ir feathers.
Constance Feni,nore Woolson in Har-
per's.