The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

or pleasure beneath sunny skies The climate Is accredited with vast possi- bilities in the matter of the restora- ton of health Possibly not enough credit is given to the European or American physicians whom the invalid brings with him, in many instances, or to the Occidental practitioner estab- lIsh ed in Cairo. Until recently, at any rate. foreign doctors had to depend entirely upon foreign practice. The native Egyptian would have none of his medicine. prefering to pin his faith to remedies in use when the Py- ramids were building. rather than trust to discoveries of the lntidel and out lander.
 Until recently village barbers and old women constituted the medical advisers of the natives. Mohammedans cured their ailments by texts from the Koran, and Copts doctored themselves by applying excerpts from the Psalms or Gospels. An operation warranted to cure all but fatal diseases. consisted in drinking Nile, water from spe- cially constructed brass bowl, for three consecutive Fridays. If the patient did not live to the third Friday it was, manifestly, because the disease was fatal A bone from the body of Jew or an Egyptian mummy was consid- cred a charm against levers sterile woman who wished to bear children stepped over the corpse of an executed criminal, walked upon human SKULL or batEred In water previously used to wash a corpse. A headache was cured by driving a nail into one of the gates of Cairo. An antidote for poison was to drink water in which texts from the Koran had been soaked disioeateu Joint was bound to half-starved COW,
 angf Foa an that the swell ing would reduce the swelling of the patients limb.
 If is quite true that the pure air of tha desert is a tonic of rare value 10 the debilitated, and of especiai oeneht to sufferers from various illnesses, but the first discovery and dfsillusionment of the unwary visitor is that IL is easier to catch cold in Caro than II ls in Chicago, and harder to get rio oi it. Cairones know now to suau against colds. The late arrival does moi The Egyptian who kneels by the roadside with his face toward Mecca and says his prayers as the sun IS setting. wraps his mantle about ms bead and throat The American has heen free from cold In Southern Call fornia. at the Gulf Coast winter re- sorts or in Florida. Believing tha' Erypt. as in semi tropical America eoIds are rare and hard to eaten, ne finds himself at sunset hve mlies l.oi, his hotel without his top coat oniiieu th inc bone he arrives in due tune a'
 Amartcan bar, his fetich against the cold germ. ~,orntr1 he is in the grip of an Egyptian coIo He tries everything from aspen
 Assouan in an effort to get rid VI -. It Iasts week, despite his enorts. HIS nhystcian tells him gravely that colu caught in Cairo sometimes resuits riously. It is always serious m ltsell Notwithstanding the sraNlty ol Egyptian cold, in strict Jus.ioe a,,,aSe he credited with confining tsef chle is, to the head, the country IS soush' S,, consnmptives from Europe as ATT sona is sought by Americans similarly A1thoueh the French and English oe- o,,nation of Egypt might be supposeu to have taught Europeans that Essps ts not altogether tropical, the lac' that 1t has not. The tourist pugs
 sun helmet before he gets o;sbsr to narhans he gets 1t from his furnlsner at home Having firmly hxed Tn hls .,,ra tha idea that he is doing not nn,ntrv he dons his helmet betofe he s.ent,,rcs on the street. The mere lact ttat if Ia rather nipping in the cary ,,,or,ine inst comfortable in the sun at rnidday. and decidedly cola al sun sun set does not eradicate the lihpressss s1-s,. ,hat without sun helmet ne Mss suffer death or great pooiiy a,,ar- Hsr,no He is forced to get his oVe,
 a4 o,,+ of his trunk, but the stately -.ht.a helmet. pierced by venuialIne taias towers above the necessary ou.ei a.o orroert Sometimes the exercise t se,aantoI to visiting the pyramlos on nis e,as,nIa does not sufficiently neat ms ,,S o,os +o cause him to leave on ms o,,orcoat hut the sun curtain reachins Sror, the back of his heiriet ,ng shoulders does not strike nm as an absurdity. ., 4ho
 Rheumatism, bronchitis, asIhIne, ,s+er effects of grip and Of pleurlsy a,s soanmonia. the effects of overwork oI. rnantal strain, neuralgia, and many otbar diseases and ailments, are sala to oive way before Egyptian ar anu st+ention to medical advice. Horse Rack riding, camel and donkey ridins, and other forms of exercise lncioenI to seeing monuments and runs ol tiouity give the muscles Of the rheu- s.attc bealth-seeker a suitable knead- inp and doubtless form good part oi the beneficial effect to other persons.
 Esvnt is not subject to wide and vi- olent variations of temperature. There is an occa sional sand storm or mliu variety called the "khamsin, Whlcn brings impalpable dust into the most tightly closed room, but the knanislh comes but three or four times m d season, blurring the landscape so that Cairo seems wrapped in yellow Lon don fog It gives the visitor an op- portunity to see a sand storm without imposing upon him the diseemforts or A real sirocco. Nearly everyone enjoys A "khamsin" as an experience. There are sufferers from catarrhal directions who insist that 1t is beneficial.
 The mean temperature in Catpo in winter Is sixty-two degrees, Fahren- heit. as warm as the Madeira Islands. Because of the trees in Cairo it rains two or three times year. Along the Upper Nile the slightest shower causes a sensation among the natives tempe rature of thirty-two degrees mas been recorded in cairo, but 1t is very rare. By early forenoon on the cool est days, the sun always lifts the mer- eury many degrees.
 If is much warmer in Upper Egypt If the traveller Is not content with tempera ture in which an overcoat must be worn after sunset he may take slow but comfortable boat for the Up- ner Nile. or a somewhat less slow and much less comfortable train. In day by land or a few days by water he reaches a climate where summer clothing may be worn in January with out discomfort. The system of hotels from the Mediterranean southward to the cataracts of the, Nile is gradually expanding and improving. Every ef- fort of Europeans Tn Egypt who are interested in the volume of tourist travel is bent toward convincing the