The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-22

found that we could wander about with.
out being battered and led, So we spens
pleasant hours in the Mouski, which is
the native shopping street, and also we
went to the race meeting and saw
native horses and ponies, carrying lao
to 100 pounds each, saunter around a
halfmile track while large number Of
gallons Of tea and simulated polite
interest.
One afternoon we wandered into 3
market and man tried to sell me
camel. Wherever we go, if q man has
something he doesn It want he tries to
sell it to me, and sometimes he does it.
But refused to take the camel. l did
not see how I could fold 1t up and So
crete 1t SO as to get it thru the custom
house.
Camels in the Cairo market are now
steady, not literally speaking, but as re-
sss ands their ysae good hs s15s G sa
and broken to single-foot, will fetch
as high as $50. The older ones
spawned. hairless or pigeontoed-cant
be bought for as low as $50 each. The
common or garden camel, trained to
fold up like pocket camera and carry
from three to eight tons of cargo, can
usually be bought at from 800 to 1926.
We looked in at the bowling der
hammedan persuasion get as much en-
joyment out Of their religious services
as if they were real Christians and lived
in the backwoods of America. Like
some Of our pieus countrymen, they
seem to think that an exhibition
of religious frenzy is sure proof of
sanctifed spirit. As Mr.. Peasley put
it, they can give our shouters at home
cards and spades.
They bend themselves backward and
forward in jackknife attitudes, hoarsely
repeating over and over again the name
| of "Allah. - They froth at the
mouth, spin around like tops, shrek
/ like delifieus coyotes and usually com
1 cludes by failing over IN an epileptlc
cpnvulsion and being carried out on a
/ shutter. A good many tourists enjoy
/ seeing it. But all of us have visited the
Chicago Board of Trade, and on the
whole the performance seemed rather
tame and spiritless.
! Cairo, as a wlole, was big surprise
to us. We knew that it was going to
be cosmopolitan. but we were not pre-
pared to find it so metropolitan. We
! had pictured it as one or two semi-Eu-
| ropean streets hedged IN by vast area
/ Of native quarter. But, unless you seek
out the old parts Of the town or the
bazaars, each showing a distinct type
Of the Oriental shark, Cairo is out
wardly quite modern, very attractive
and decidedly gay-that is, not real
wicked gayety Of the Partisan brand
but modified, winter resort gayety
the kind that is induced by the
presence of money-spending. tourists
There is no hurrah night life
and gambling, which fourished here
for so many seasons under the skllfu
|, direction of our countryman, Pat
Sheedy, has yielded to British reforma
; tory influence.
. The modern streets in Cairo, will
: their attractive hotels, residences anG
r shops, suggest blending Of Paris and
i the Riviera-consistent architecture
> trees, palms, gardens. The streets ar,
3 of boulevard width and the houses o.
, cheerful coloring, many of them bear
], ing colored frescoes in delicate shades
1 We who live in the country Of rainfall
and smoke and changing temperature
are impelled to stop and gaze in wonde
8 at mansion of snowy white with pat
S tern of pale blossoms dropping down tn
|, front Of it. That style of decoration
a would last about twenty minutes il
e Chicago.