New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-08
CONCERNING CAMELS.
WITH SOME REFERENCES TO THE FAIR.

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way Plaisance which we did not visit until yester-
day The reason why refrained for so long Is
/ extremely frivolous but Will give IT, When people
! asked us If had been to Caro-st. we wanted 10
he able to say mo" Gertrude says that one OF the
most enjoyable things about the Fair has been the
wondering expression which to the faces OF
our acqusintances when they learn that We nave
been in Chicago all this time and have not yet seen
this wonderful street. They ask US if we have
conscientious scrupes" We assure them that such
scrupes never trouble But yesterday morning
when | rose from extremely restless night III
the ROOM which is divided from a populous hall
by a half partition, said that somehow felt as II
[ wanted to ride a camel. The response from my
friend was that. owing to the continual passing
I'm the hall the other side of our half partition
and her consequent lack of sleep, she was no more
refreshed than she would be if she had ridden
camel all night consequently she did not share my
wish. Besides. she said, it would involve gong
into Cairo-st and she still thought that 1t would
be a proud moment when she should tell the toIhS
at home that she had everything and done
everything but that place. She pronounced the
words that place" as ii it were Gehenna she was
mentioning
explained that would be very wrong for her
TO tell any one that she had everything. for
some had computed that If n person We're 10
look at all there was exhibition in the Column
ban Exposition it would require twenty-s1 years
This seemed too bad to about fair that was
only going to be- open "A few months. 1t was KIND
OF fraud to allow "A person but six months IN
which to see objects which required twenty-sx
years to be reviewed
When | had finished these remarks. Gertrude re-
turned Immediately the subject of the camels
She said if / had really decided to make a fool OF
myself in that way she did not wish to put a straw
/ In my road II is a curious fact that when person
! inmatcs that thinking of doing a toohsh
thing We feel the desire to do it Increased ten
| fold Now II I had been rather urged to ride
I al I,,. ham. Iaak
urged still more. But with Gertrudes mind IN this
attitude | could hardly wait until We had break
! tasted before going to the Egyptian part OF the
| Plaisance that | might mount my camel.
! By this time it may be imagined that we are
somewhat hardened to the sights Of the Fair still
confess that my tastes are not disciplined but
that I always experience kind Of exultatlon when
| | enter the Plaisance Gertrude reproves me Tor
| this. she it Is unworthy OF woman OF my
| age to feel so much like q boy going to circus.
| But her reproof has effect In point OF fact the
! Plasance is a kind of magnlhed series Of side
! shows and the person who IS fond of side shows
will be happy here. As for me. though have never
yet INDUCED my longing to see a trple-bodied boy,
or a fat woman. or a man swallow MS own heso'
| in the very bottom OF my soul mean some Gay 70
| see those things. And | have been much In this
| part OF the grounds. although l am told that 1t
| really shows a vltiated taste and that ought to
! visit only the classic portions OF the exposition
When ask what the classic portions, the reply
| f. that the speaker "guesses the Perstyle Is
When am eating Ice cream in Kiosk,
| like to a swsrthy man In a long white burnoose
and an immense conical woven flag hat g STRIKING
| by Such a sight makes me forget how poor the
| Ice cream ls and how much money am going to
| pay for It. When | figure like that imme-
distey fall to dreaming of the straits OF Babel
| msndeb and | ask Are the roses still bright by
| the calm Bendemeer" on one Of these occasions
| my companion even went far as to quote.
More pure In its shell than thy spirit In thee
Oh, ,atr Al the sea nower close 10 thee growing.
How light was thy heart til loves witchery came
She explained that these lines referred In her mind
to the man In the white burnoose. and that she had
no doubt from his face and his general aspect
| that his spirit was like that pearl under Omans
green water But she not so certain as 10
whether loves witch-ry had yet come to him
such conversation as the above is very trying TO
me- and there are times when could wish either
that my friend might be more uniformly sehu-
mental or that | might be less so. never Know
even now after our long acquaintance when she IS
going to b. sentimental. the most unlikely thing
will get her going. on the contrary she says she
alvays knows when am going 70 be thus. and that
ia all the time.
Who would suspect for instance. that any one
would be tenderly and gently moved by sar-
cophagus Of the sacred bull Of the later Ptolemac
period?' But am anticipating
When first thought Of going TO the World FAR
said to myself that II there should be mosque
and II there should be muezzn, woud
certainly hear the call to prayer from the
mInaret Many people have told me that there IL
A murzzin and that he goes mp into the tower ana
calls the faithful to their devotons, but grieve TO
say that did not hear him. and now suppose
shall never see any one drop all employment ana
turn toward Mecca Tor his Devotion
When We We're paying for our admission INTO
Cairo We could have glimpse of a woman s"athed
I'm that mysterious manner which makes OF hu-
man being an apparently helpless bundle Every
body has seen pictures ot women clothed In that
WV with only the eyes exposed to the gaze OF
communicating world. This glimpse was rather
.tmulatlng especially as this feminine bundle was
walking about selling flowers TO any one who would
buy.
In another moment were in the street ana
,berc were the camcls and the donkeys. There was
also at our right extremely modern beerhouse'
where we sat down and had some coffee WINE We
looked along the street up when the often recui-
ring wedding procession was coming. have read
description OF this procession 80 many times 'n"t
II seemed as II had seen 1t every day since IN
,ancv Iut why has no spoken Of the egg
which mraculousy sticks upon the lett eye Oh 'ne
mcgior? or does not the egg usually STICK there'
Was It only in honor of our coming tha' II WAS
there this morning?
4 camel Is an object which might he described
negatively # is not pleasing to look upon; 1t Is not
attractive But a camel is very mysterious. stand
ing and looking at one could not but thnK mat
this very animal had been living ever since the irs'
ptolcrnv More 1t had probably spit at the trst
Ptolenly and hung its nabby under lip at MN as IL
was hanging 1t at me. II 1t had done so
onler n the great ruler was as awed and as myst-
fled "a was. or did he think very little OF camels
anyway?
or course had seen these creatures in menager-
los but one can he what might be called more
intimate terms with them here In street IN oafo
Ia. r..NFl Ia
:, a. ,,,,ro,,o forms | had selected my camel
and was standing In front of him. fascinated by
his presence and wishing that knew why ne had
tIst that kind of a mouth: might even ask also
why that kind OF eyes.
4 girl with large hat on her heau anu a '''e'
diamond ON her hand came and stood beside me-
Sbo ,,,s evidently a literary girl, for she had
memorandum pad and had just seen her wriuhs
upon IT, She gazed at the camel Then she wrote
something Then she glanced at me and told me