Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-16
THE WEST SIDE SHAKESPEARE
CLUB.

The West Side Shakespeare club met
with Mrs. A. H. Whitcher at her apart
ments in the LenoX hotel last Tuesday
e> ening. There was an unusually large
attendance and several guests were pres
ent, Mrs. j. D. Slemons, Miss Nellie
Slcmons. Mrs. Dan Brown. Mrs. f.. w.
ShteVely and Mrs. G. O. Mcfarland. and
County Superintendent Mullins. AS a
social session. was to follow the business
secession was cut considerably and cur
rent topics discussion also Every menu
ben answered to roll call With quotations
from the act read. the second act Of
Antony and CLEOPATRA"
The questions to be answered next
time were given out as follows:
/. AT what time in Shakespeare's life
was this play written?
>. Give a brief estimate Of your favor
lite character in this play.
3. Describe Parthia.
Interpret: Thou Arabian Bird"
Ties His Points, "Your Caesars Faith
err
5. Define: Shards, Forspol<e Thetis.
Antoniad, Circle. DiscandynG, Sui.
The only paper was given by Presi-
dent D cllson. after W 1ich refreshments
We're served, and the evening devoted to
seciability. Mrs. Dickson's paper fol-
lov-s:
ANCIENT EGYPT.
An attempt has been made to place
man in his civilized state to Ethiopia.
but the nearest to that country that
research has been able to come
is Egypt. The land of the
Pharahos, the pyramids the sphinx,
and the Nile. if not the veritabe
cradle of civilization its earliest
historic home. AS a geographical term
Egypt represents almost as fixed and
unVarying quantity as America. Ma
ture has determined its boundaries. 1t
is, indeed, the country of the Nile, or
t.SyptuS, as that river was once called.
From the seven mouths of that grand
river to the cataract or rapids Of the
south, which arrest navigation at Syene
and from desert to desert on either side,
extends this wonderland. Upper Egypt
is the region of the undivided Nile and
Lower Egypt of the vast delta, through
which it flows in several streams. broad
erinS the area of productiveness.
Besides these, We're & few green spots
in the desert and porte on the ned Sea-
Ey it's geographical positlo-, the coun.
try was protected from hostile incursions
by a better than Chinese wall and allow
ed to develop normally, until a compare
lively late period. The same race did
lot maintain the ascendency all the
time, but the immunity from hostile in
cursion enjoyed by that people, was such
/ as no other nation ever enjoyed until
| the United States came upon the stage
| Of national development. 1t was not
! necessary to exhaust the resources and
| Ingenuity of the people in war. There
! VAS ample leisure for and incentive to
/ the cultivation OF the arts of peace
The rainlcss land might be the appel
lation of Egypt. The productiveness of
! the soil is not dependent upon CAPRI
o;ous clouds. During our Spring months
the air is sultry and the ground parchad.
The rains of mountainous Abyssinia
comminsle in the Upper Nile and by
about the middle OF June, the mighty
flood reaches Egypt and the overflow be-
! Slns The fields of the delta are one vast
sheet of water, during Augusct, Sep
tcmber and October. The villages built
en- raised mounds. or artificial hills are
| little islands. The water is red with
Abyssnia mud-where the water dsap-
pears early in November, the alluvial de-
p"sit is the richest of soil, and vegeta-
ton is prodigious. Two crops year
can be raised. First, wheat and barley
then corn and rice. The latter crop Is
saved to grow during the intimidation
giving rise to the proverb about castinf
bread upon the waters. For long tim,
: ECld and precious stones We're found il
the SOUTH and to some extent commerce
, is still maintained in that direcuon TIL
Nubian mines We're the "Dunanzas of an
: tiqui,y." To them Thebes was largel
indebted for it's opulence, being for fiv
hundred years the richest city in tn
world