The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-01
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Romantic Pastime Which Marked the
Opening of the Street off Cairo at the
Worlds Fair.
Chicago Inter OceGn.
A section of the rainbow broke from
its moorlng about II o'clock Saturday
morning, got inextricably tangled
among q lot of camels and donkeys, and
wandered up and down the Midway
Plaisauce amid the waiing OF weird
pipes and the growing OF tom-toms
Tile crowd in tile Midway tagged after
the chromatIc estray, and was entlced
into the street OF Cairo, where 1t was
learned that the mixture OF chrome
and zoology was representation OF an
Egyptian wedding procession, given to
mark the opening of the Cairo exhibit
ton, The bride, swarthy beauty in
white, with bright, black eyes peeping
over the ayeeslah which covered most
OF her face, was in search OF the BRIDE
groom, and all her kinsmRn Ghival.
rously assisted in the matrimonial
quest,
The coy maid OF the Nile walked at
tho rear Of the cavalcade within can
opy Of gauze. Her coming was herald
ed by fife and drum corps OF the
oriental band, whose piping and tom
toming made reasonably successful
imitation Of Scotch bagpipes and Wag'
merriam opera in partnership. Wrest-
lera, naked to the waist, tumhled each
other about as enthusiastically as
though they we're rolling on padded
carpets instead OF brick pavements.
Swordsmen with long scimetars and
hatt-groWn shields danced about each
other with counterfeit ferocitY that
would sell for ninety cents on the dol
lar, beating rat-a'tat on each others
bucklers and alashing the air with a
reckless abandon THAI made the speCta-
tors give way without stand back"
from the envious Columbian guards.
Testers upon camels slapped each
others faces and thought itfunny. Tho
brides cousins droned an alleged song.
The donkey boys trudged by the side OF
their animals and forgot thoirmultilated
English. Strange, picturesque and in
teresting, indeed was that curious core
mony,
Down tho street, in the theatre,
Fahumiet, n dark.eyed girl in a white
muslin skirt and gauzy waist, with
golden ornaments in her black braids
and dangling in strings from her neck,
gave some OF the Egyptian dances One
OF these resembled Spanish fandaugo,
tiny cymbals on the fingers answer
ing for the castanets. In the sword
dance she showed how near she could
come to stabbing herself without doing
it, and in u third effort she wore q
crown Of lighted candles, her object be-
ing to keep up the dance without ex-
tinguishing the candles. Tho browning
performance was tho dams du ventre. u
aensuous oriental system OF rythmical
coutortions that made somo OF the Ia
dies leave the theatre, and ut its con-
clusion Fahumit threw herself on
divan and blushinglv bid her face 10
handkerchief The music Yas fur
nished by couple OF gourds converted
into fiddles and pair OF tom.toms, and
when they tuned up an irreyerent spec.
tator advised the squatting musicians
to "play ball." and they did
AT tho western end OF the village
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huts shaped like big hay cocks, we're
also giving dances to Accomplishments
Of drums and cowbells. Up and down
both sides OF the streets were the open
shops, little inches in the brown walls.
and pretty American girls offered many
curious trinkets Tor sale. These attend
ants were not picturesque, perhaps, but
the shrewd Egyptians have learned the
commercial value Of understandable
English.
Here and there, cross-levged upon
bits OF carpets, iugglers and astrologers
held forth, and yelled beauties from the
Nile wandered about Offering flowers
for sale. In the cafe Egyptians in baggy
trousers and poly.colored turbans acted
as walters, and peeping through latticsd
windows were groups OF brown faces
curiously watching the invasion OF the
white peoples of the north country,