Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03

York. the cornmeal was in a pasteboard
package labeled Chicago, and the coal oil
In square can from Philadelphia, while
the corned beef was In a fiat tin box from
a packing house in Kansas City. At an
other store 1 saw canned salmon from
seattle and pickles from Boston. All Of
these goods came via London.
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What the MOOrs Do Not Want.
1t is useless for our exporters to attempt
to make market in Morocco without send
ing men here to study the people This
country is as different from the United
States as would be the lands of the Arabian
Nights. Drummers who speak Spanish or
French should be sent to travel among the
people and report the kinds and patterns of
goods desired. They can hire guides who
will interpret for them with the Moorish
merchants, and they will find many Jewish
traders who speak French and Spanish.
Let me tell you, for instance, Of a few
things which it would be ridiculous to send
to Morocco. The American shoe is popular
almost everywhere, and It is fast capturing
Europe. 1t could do nothing here. These
men want loose slipper of soft leather
with a heel that can be bent over. They
take their shoes of, as a usual thing, when
they enter their homes, and they never
wear them inside the churches or mosques
The black of the American shoe would
look out of place, for every Moorish gentle
man likes delicate pale yellow As 10 the
women, they wear red slippers of soft
Morocco leather. and the better classes of
them have their footwear embroidered with
gold and silver. In the house most OF the
girls go barefooted. ano no one wears a
French heel Indeed. heels are worn on
no shoes here, and even fine Morocco boots
are heelless. All the footwear is hand
made and that made in Fee is sent to
different parts OF the country.
No Demand for Socks or Stockings.
The Moors do not want stockings. OF the
1OOOO,OOO Inhabitants of this country s50O
Wo have never heard OF them, and I ven
ture there are not 10000 women in the
whole empire who clothe their legs In that
way Only the very well-to-do 'put them
on upon occasions, and such persons are
the Moors who have been affected by for
eign influences
Our hat makers need not send their
wares These people use turbans. with
skull caps under them to cover their
smoothly shaved scalps. and they some
times pull the hoods of their gowns over
their heads In addition. The Jews wear
caps OF black felt which fit close, and the
Jewish women wrap their heads in silk
Little Chance for American FIour
Al present there might be a small sale
Tor American flour II 1t were shipped here
IN such packages that It could be carried
py mules over the country. Morocco has
some or the best wheat soil in the world.
ana II II had a government like ours with
secretary Wilson at the head of its agri-
cultural department, 1t would be competing
with our country In the bread markets
on england. At present most of the 4rain
is consumed In the localities where II is
raised and the agricultural methods are
30 rude that It Is high-priced. notwithstand-
ing the low wages Farm hands get about
- cents a day and they board themselves
The plowing is done with a crooked sticlr
by means of oxen. mules donkeys or
camels. The pitchforks are crotched sticks
at the ends. Shovels and shades
are unknown A Moorish pillow costs about
~ cents, an OK yoke IS cents and the r,ida
hoe which is commonly employed. 70 cents
me grain is carried from many localities
on the backs of camels in long BAGS made
'f palmetto leaves. One such bag will hold
-en bushels and form a fair load for a
camel. Here I'm Tangier the grain is trans
ported by donkeys from one part of the
own TO the other in fouT-bushel bags Two
'ass are good load for a donkey.
Queer MiIIs and BakeFfes
Inc ordinary Moroccan stomach would be
'urprlsed at American -four The bread Of
ne country Is made Of meal ground at
home Every family has its own mill con-
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