Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-14

or corner partially sheltered from
Jostling elbows. He writes upon his
left Knee, the. appliances Of his trade
spread out before him-ink, paper, reed
pens, SAND box, and q rullng-board
with strings stretched across 1t at resu-
lar intervals, upon which the paper 10
pressed 10 Indicate lines,
The interior of a Moorish house of
the middle class TO choose an average
sample-ls simplicity itself, but "a
study In color It IL usually one
stored, containing single apartment,
very long aud lofty, with peaked door
way so low that grown person must
bend his back to pass through II. The
only other apertures for the admission
of light and air are narrow Sits high
up In the walls, glazed windows being
considered inventions of the devil
through which TO cast Evil Eyes and
other perlous things upon true be-
levers The bed of husband and wife
Is placed at one end Of the long room;
and at the other end sort Of raised
couch, or platform, Is provided Tor the
children 8 sleeping place; the space be-
tween being tolerably we'll filled up
with charcoal, various culinary uten-
sils, gourds for holding water and
goats milk, sacks Of corn, dogs, fowls
and perhaps pet lion or leopard, There
Is also Il big snake or two about the
premises, Kept as we do cats 70 sub
due the domestic plague OF rats, mice
and reaches. To be sure his snakeship
endanCers the lives Of the chickens, ana
Is unplcasunlly prone 10 pro-empt the
sleeping quarters Of the family Oh
chilly nights, but his presence Is
thought 70 be indispensable In every
Well-regulated household Notwth.
standing these ullmtiye arrange
ncnts, there is somehow pleasing
air Of "the ETERNAL fitness" about the
menange-even an appearance Ol dec
oratiye finish, the latter proba Ny SJr.
rOWed from the brightly cOlured mould
ing, and the beautifully shaped pottery
suspended from the walls. Nowhere Ia
homes Of this class DO you see the ar
ticle OF furniture which we know as
table, and seldom a chair Al meal
times the family squats on It's heels
around huge pot, or platter OF stew,
placed In the middle Of the lloOG AMI
tingers-more or less dirty-do duty "a
knives and forks. 1t Is about the same
way In Moorish restaurants. except that
they are so small you cannot get inside
TO sit on the floor but must stand out
side, In mud or rain Or scuruhing sun
shine or reach over the heads Of the
passing crowd TO the counter" on
which are placed your eggs bread small
bits Of meat, roasted on sick ever
charcoal, coffee and asses milk, Once
in a great while, IL food Of O liquid ma
ture is to be eaten you may secure the
momentary loan Of a wooden ladla. pr
brass spoon. but as q rue the ten
servants according to the Koran,
tlngers) with which Allah Las DO
yded you, must suffice There are
stu humber cooking PLACES in which
those economically inclined may dine
You go 10 market and buy eggs. meat
whatever you desire. and take them
raw 10 the cook shops, where they are
prepared for a plttance
AS everybody knows, coffee Is the
beverage In which most MOUNTAINEERING
delight; yet, strange TO say. the Moors
OF Morocco prefer tea. This Is the way
they make it Tie dried leaves are
first washed-think Of That my tea.lov-
Ing friends Of the north' and then
| great quantity Of crude brown sugar Is
! put into the ground or clay pot Then
luke warm water is tu?ne 4 on-and fho
nnal result Is about as nasty synlp az
ever tastetd one would naurnllv tun.
| pose that people so excessively nor
ticular about ilayors, and so svilisa
s'il.e tiiIe ou, OF mind in listlllny ~
sence would wish to retain the deiIcata
'sa'navor' Strange 10 say, il Il lust