Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-13

| water 1fOln d SpC-
! cialIv constructed brass bowl, for three
consecutive Fridays. If the patient dld
NOT live to the third Friday it was
! manifestly, because the disease was
! fatal A bone from the body OF atJeW
| or an Egyptian mummy was consloereu
a charm against fevers. A'steriie Wo-
man who wished to bear chlldren
| stepped over the corpse of an executed
| criminal. walked upon human skui'
or bathed in water previously USED TO
wash a corpse. A headache was cured
nv 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. A dlslocateu
| Joint was bound to a half-starVed cow
and the animal fed so that the swelllns
would reduce the swelling OF the pa
TENTS limb
It is duite true that the pure air OF
the desert is a tonic of rare value 10
the debilitated. and of especial beneht
IN sufferers from various Illnesses, Dut
the first discovery and disillusionmehl
| of the unwary visitor is that it Is easier
| to catch cold in Cairo than 1t is IN Chi-
cago, and harder to get rid OF II. cal
rones know how to guard against colds'
The late arrival does not. The Bgyp-
| tian who kne Is by the roadside with
his face toward Mecca and says his
prayers as the sun is setting, wraps his
mantle about his head and throat me
| American has been free from cold in
Southern California, at the Gulf coast
winter resorts, or in Florida. Believing
that in Egypt, as in semi-troplcal
America. colds are rare and hard to
catch. he finds himself at sunset five
miles from his hotel without his top
coat. Chilled to the bone, he arrives in
due time at an American bar, his
fetch against the cold germ
But when he awakens next morning
he is in the grip of an Egyptian cold.
He tries everything from asperin TO,
| Assauan in an effort to get rid of it..
1t lasts a week, despite his efforts. His
physician tells him gravely that a cold
caught in Cairo sometimes results seri-
ously. 1t is always serious in itself.
Notwithstanding the gravity of an
Egyptian cold, which in strict justice
must be credited with confining itself
chiefly to the head, the country is
sought by consumptives from Europe,
as Arizona is sought by Americans SIM
ilarly affected.
Although the French and English oc-
cupation of Egypt might be supposed
to have taught Europeans that Egypt
is not altogether tropical, the fact is
that it has not The tourist buys his
sun helmet before he gets to Cairo.
Perhaps he gets ii from his furnisher
at NOME. I1dNlIB uIHlly i1Atu III MS
mind the idea that he is doing" a hot
country, he dons his helmet before he
ventures on the street. The mere fact
that it is rather nipping in the early
morning. just comfortable in the sun
at midday, and decidedly cold at sun
set does not eradicate the impression
that without sun helmet he might suf-
fer death or great bodily harm in Afri-
ca. He is forced to get his overcoat
out of his trunk, but the stately white
helmet, pierced by ventilating holes,
towers above the necessary outer gar
| ment. Sometimes the exercise Incl
dental to visiting the pyramids on his
| bicycle does not sufficiently heat his
blood to cause him to leave off his over
coat, but the sun curtain reaching from
the back of his helmet to his shoulders
does not strike him as being an alb
| surdity.
Rheumatism, bronchitis, asthma, the
after effects of grip and of pleurisy and
pneumonia, the effects of overWork or
mental strain, neuralgia and many
other diseases and ailments are said
to give way before Egyptian air and
attention to medical advice. Horse
back riding. camel and donkey riding
and other forms of exercise incident
to seeing mountains and ruins of an
tiquity give the muscles of the rheu-