Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-03-20


saw a single section of long avenue,
a speck ont Of a mountain. This
afternoon we walked from the Ezbe-
kIeh gardens in the European quarters
where all is modern, clean and un-
interesting, down FL Mouski, through
the city gate TO the Mokaltom Hills
whence the great view Of Cairo and
its minarets, towering like slender
masts above a fleet at sea, is obtained.
Shall we tell you Of the people met
upon the way:
Most in number were the feilaheen
in town, marketing or spending their
.scanty earnings. They are the peas
ants Of Egypt, the tillers Of the soil,
everywhere the stnewso of a nations
strength. Large-fTamed the men,the
women slender, they say, as a rope.
Pale. brown in color some, while 9th
ers are of blacker hue. The girls are
graceful and not badlooking. Their
fine carriage, acquired by bearing
water lars and other burdens on their
heads. might be envied by a Missouri
belle. Their dress is simple in the ex-
IRENE, often a single blue cotton gar
ment. Mohammedan though the fel-
llah is his wives and daughters seldom
cover their mouths as do the dwellers
lin the town. A Soudanese negresS
follows, with ~nose-ring, coarser type
than even the Guinea negro OF slave
DAYS whom she somewhat resembles
The Copts dwell ali within the towns
They are the descendants Of the an
cient Egyptians and Christians every
lone. They have no very clear idea O.
the difference between Christians ant
other r~eligionistS Il am a Christian,
said our Coptic dagoman at Luxor
81 eat pigi"
Their dark turbans were Originally
a mark Of oppression and ridicule bu
are now worn by them with pride. \
Bedouln stalks by with lofty mien
bronze-colored but with CaucaSin cas-
Of countenance. A daughter OF u
Bedouin chief Is yonder, a belle anon
her nOmadic people.
M~ohammedan women with thei
mouths covered from the vulgar gaz
OF the ~passers-by are shopping In th
lslow fashion which s. delights tn
Oriental heart.
A weather. Turkish belle, wearin
D a thin gauze iace-covering which DOE
I mot conceal but rather accentnates II
/ beauty Of her countenahce; a yillae
E shelkh, pulled up with his importanc'
2 "a Bedouin from Mt. Sinai gaunter tina
his Egyptian kinsman, a negress fro
dlNubia, Americans, Jews, BerbeI
= Greeks, Syrians, green-turbaned d
scendants Of the prophets Britt
soldiers in their loud red uniforr
Y half-naked Arabian bellies, volnnte'
: soldiers from the Soudan-neT mer
o bers Of the Khediye's army viii
Twenty years ago their fathers "wil
their 'ayrick 'eads Of air we
n butchering Chinese Gordon at khs
lIoum: all European nations and eve
tribe of Asia and Africa are Ioul
represented in this single Afternoon
stroll upon a busy Cairo street Is
strange that the visitor finds the Ct
fascinating?
WE ARE GUESTS At An ARABIAN We
~ DING.
'e ''Can YOU find US q wedding-one
e the real Arabian type2" Our dral
y man,C. Hassan by name, said be Won
q He kept his word and, more fortuna
% than most transient visitors we saw
U wedding, a funeral and a circnmcisl
Is procession. 1t was after 10 o'clo
e and, like good Christians We b
v crawled into our little touches, ;
81 justed the mosquito bars and pull
Te up the feather-bed covering. A knd
S at the door. IL was Cheattah Hass'
Is 'sThe boys have found q wedding
le And they had. And We vent inyli
Is guests to an aristocratic wedding
te the fashionable Arabian quarter.
70 rode on donkeys-oh, the memory
OF that wild ride through the narTt
unlighted streets Of Cairo and df
=. howling procession 10 which
no paraded. There was only one otl
,,s foreigner invited beside the two y
d sourlans-he, By the way, was
~ Irish : English landlord whose la
holdings Of land in Bates county ca
I, ed the Missouri Legislature 70 pass
i alien land law. We were given Sc
4. OF honor on a long bench In the str
In front Of the house-fof Arab v
: dlngs are in the streets. The sire
from the house Of the groom 70
house Of the bride were decorated "
flags, at every eorner a rope be
"a stretched across and streamers q
and white hung from it. There v
probably a thousand guests at
- wedding. IL was evidently a q
affair and cost, our dragoman declal
$500. The grOom's father a dignif
~ patriarchal Arab, came out to bid
Il welcome. He shook our right ha
then placed his right hand on
heart, raised II to his head and boz
most grayely. "My house is
house." he said in Arabic. We
dot know the proper reply, but v
he through the same performance
he host did. whereat the whole comp
,er rose and bowed. Our dragoman
on sured rs we had done "the pro
ed thing but We made a bad brea
he lHttle later. The groom came OEel
uy greet US. He wore q green satin d
he with long flowing sleeves, was ab
rat II years u age and had a remarks
he Intelligent c0untenance. He v
nv through the same performance as
ali father and We bowed ant patted
ed foreheads again. We wished him
We IN the best AmeFican-Arabie at
en- disposal, all the time wondering !
on he could walk with that long, q
ile satin p~ettic0at clinging about
M. heels We inquired his name. IL
rfs Mutafa sulelman. And then we N
m. our lad break. We inquired after
w hride-what her name and was
lis pretty as all brides Ar or ought 70
al. A sad silence fell upon the eoinpa
IN We had committed The u~npardoni
res sin. The drag0man whispered 50
n thing 70 the master q ceremon