Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-02
CAIRO. CITY OF THE NILE.
Population a General Mixture OF
M0fId Races.
so MANY TONGUES MAKE A BABEL
Flow, Of Lie on It's Stress Like a Cir
Gus Parade-A Few Cents a Day
Necessary to live-seat Of the Ok
ford of Mottammeden World.

Necessary to live-Seat Of the Ok
ford of Mohammeden World.
What Bagdad was in the days of
Haroun al Raschid, Cairo is today.
Just as the mantle of Rome passed
west to London and New York. so the
mantle of the metropolis of the Arabic
speaking world has passed west and
has fallen on the great city of the
Nile, which has taken on new interest
with the emergence of Egypt as a
kingdom" says bulletin from the
Washington, d, c., headquarters of the
National Geographic Society.
Cairo is a living Kaleidoscope; its
colored fragments are tumbled into
place not merely from Eost and West,
but from North and South as well.
White-robed Bedouin, ill-clad fellah,
shiny black Soudanese and central
African negro, swarthy Turk, Persian,
Hindu, Mongolian, dusky Moor, Italian,
Greek, Armenian and the whittier folk
from Europe, America and the anti
podes-all are jumbled together in
Cairo, their various tongues making a
babel that can hardly be duplicated at
any other spot on earth
Down the Centuries by Trolley.
THE life Of Cairo is almost what
you will. Do you want the finest of
European hotels with the last word in
luxury? They are there. Do you
long for the baZaars of the true East /?
You will find them just around the
corner. Would you see the primitive
life of the humble city dweller, the
inn of the desert wanderer. student
life among Mohammedan youth, the
crowds about the mosques, the palaces
Of Eastern potcntateS-they are all
journey swiftly and cheaply into the
past you need only board an electric
trolley-car and be whisked through a
few miles of sand to the Pyramids Of
Gizeh and the Sphinx.
The life that GIBBS and flows along
some of the streets of Cairo is like
nothing so much as a circus parade
back home. Deliberate camels move
along with brightly dressed riders
perched upon them or with suspended
cars in which are veflcd damsels, while
drummerS thunder their rhythm and
fife blowers emit their shrill notes.
Snake -charmers pass along with their
bags of. snakes; magtian3 perform in
some nook; bullock carts and laden
donkeys compete for space with
Shining limousines.
Cafe Tables Halt Street Traffic.
THE al fresco cafe is one of the
most characteristic marks of Cairo.
1t is not the more OF less well ordered
affair of the boulcvards Of Paris. Side
walks and streets overflow with SEEM
ingly innumcrable chairs and tables
until often a single file o. pedestrians
can hardly force it's way through. One
gets the impression that few people
need to work in Cairo. Even in the
mornings the chairs are filled with
apparently prosperous men slipping
cigarettes. and talking. Toward noon
they disappear for their sicstas, but
again at four or five o'clock they are
out in force and remain far into the
night. Among them circulates a
stream of peddicrs offering for sale al
most every conceivable ware from
sweetmeats to mouse-traps and un-
derwear.
"The dweller in Cairo who has not
his servant or his group of servants is
low indeed in the economic scale
These, serving men carry tiny bundles
for their mployers-masters, one
might say. They run ahead OF carriages
to clear the way: they fan away the
flies; and orc after another they como
an troops into the presence of tht