Woman's enterprise., 1922-09-01


stately looking Arabs, and proceeded
through streets,-well, l thought I
had seen slums elsewhere, but never
anything so amazing as this, won
derful kodak picture at every turn.
Somehow, one can read, and hear lec-
lures, and listen to other travellers
talk of the sights and sounds of
strange countries, but always the re-
allty is different from ones expecta-
tlons, and far more interesting. We
stopped at the Savoy Hotel for lunch,
very nice, including an Egyptian dish
called mazzonka, a lot of things
stewed together, which l did not like,
though all the others did. In the af-
ternoon, we took train for Cairo, and
had such a delightfully."- interesting
trip that | was sorry the sudden dark
fell before it was ove:. The Egyptian
landscape is the fultillment of ones
dreams. For one thing, the wonder
fully clear, sunlit air makes every
thing appear with extraordinary dis
tinctness and sharpness of outline,
and everything was so strange to our
eyes-the low, flat-roofed buildings,
the villages of huts built of mud
bricks, Zone could scarcely believe
that human beings could inhabit
them, the tall, graceful palms stand
ing up against the sky, the long lines
of camels and innumerable small
donkeys, the old-fashioned water
wheels, turned by patient oxen, creak-
ing along at the edges Of the irrigat"
ing canals, the lush vegetation, cane
corn, hay crops of various kinds, the
growth smaller than ours but thicker
on the ground, the extraordinarily
primitive methods Of cultivation, small
wooden plows or huge, ungainly har'
rows drawn by an OK, or sometimes
comical-looking team of COW and
camel, women and children squattlne
| about in the fields like so many crows
patiently putting in the seeds Of
plants by hand, the beautiful land
scape, and the magnificent sunset thai
ended the day, with pale, silver moor
hanging in the eastern sky. w
reached Cairo a while after dark.
wish l could adequately describe tn
scenes in a railroad station in Egypt
We don't, of course, suffer as mucf
annoyance as do unprotected travellers
| as our conductor and dragoman ar
there, and clear our way with voice
| and stick, but that does not alway'
| prevent our being surrounded ant
pressed upon by hordes Of pitiful beg
ears, or eager vendors Of all sorts o.
things, beads, necklaces, scarass, can
dy, all vociferating wildly, and, II
broken English, describing their ware
as the most wonderful and most gen
uine under the sun. They are in ev
ery kind of costume and headdress
but all in long, Aavoring robes,
more picturesque lot it is impossibl
to imagine or a dirtier!
! Shepherds Hotel is hostelry fan
Gus in this part Of the world for MOI
than half century. 1t is not mue
!. different from any other hotel excel
, that, like all such places over her
there is an immensely wide, uncove
A ed verandah across the whole tror
i filled with small tables and comfort
: BILE wicker chairs, where refreshmen
s are served and where it is very lnte
q esting to watch the ever-chang'1
d street scenes.
nj We have had q week full to the br
with interest and pleasure and
IS strenuousness, was going to say, b
a it is not really strenuous at ALL {
6 cent for the donkey and camel r
" ing. We never start out until neaI
,s ten o'clock, and we never 60 ny'
,e about in automobiles as so many
j and which seems so out OF keep
a with the ancient appearance and G
H. toms of these very ancient lands,
ii bad as motor boat in Venice. WI
r. we 90 out, it is always in a sort
It victoria, drawn by pair OF not "
a. grand horses, two persons to c
,st riage, driven by very dlstlngu's
To looking Arab wearing a red fez'
RS welding his whip very skillfully'
TO- 50 much to encourage his team'
h. to handle the crowd and dlsperse
nd bordes of children ready to sw'
. around like so many bees, pitt
,ed imploring "bakshush." They
,se brought the pitifulness parts to
,ss. fine point indeed, though few seen n
6. give them anything, but when 1t
~ nened to be a poor blind baby, o.
in donkey boy who has run himself e. n
,;th " to death in your service. II IS
'rv. Wv. POSSIBLE to resist. WE'LL that is
~ wav we fare forth, our drivers
- . ouently uttering wild cry "