Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-03-02

Gle, could squeeze through them.
If one looks down upon Fee from
an airplane, as flyers now do. 1t would
seem to be a stretches city. Many
Of the narrow aisle-like streets are
latticed over to protect the hooded,
ghost-like pedestrians from the sun.
Others burrow under great estates by
tunnels, as does the famous Cliff
Walk at Newport under several of the
gardens of summer homes there.
Funerals Are Gay Sight.
Perhaps the gayest sight of Mo-
rcccan city is q funeral. The wife
who has been clustered In life is paid
every honor in death. She is borne
eloft In a great carved box Of many
colors, and behind her sing choral
societies organized to follow funerals.
A mere man is swathed in cloth and
bound to board He has no box =
The more pretentious homes of Fee
are built around courtyard, with
tiny rooms opening out upon the
court, resembling the setting OF a
room in some little theater. The
guest in a Moroccan home passes
through the court with its inevitable
fountain, lays off his shoes before the
dining room compartment, as he would
upon entering Chinese temple, and
sits down upon cushion opposite his
host. The host would commit Sc
rious breach of etiquette if he touched
any food before the guest had finished
his meal After the guest has con-
| q lyQc Of q lpicnralV
repast, and not until he Is through Is
the food he leaves sent to the wives,
concealed, but audible, on the upper
floor
The Moroccan wife has somewhat
less freedom of movement than an
American domestic. Friday afternoon
Is the wives day OUT but they may
only go to the cemetery then, from
which men are excluded for the after
noon. The cemetery Is not at all
gruesome to the Moroccan way OF
thinking. Markets are held there, and
in various ways the cities of the dead
do duty for public parks.
Water wheels are as numerous In
Fee as windmills in Holland. The city
Is netted with tiny streams so that 1t
Is almost literally true that every
house has waterway beneath 1t. Is
lnm contributes to this abundant
water supply for the Mohammedan
must wash before he enters mosque
to pray And he prays, though not
always in mosque, five times a day
Fee touches the average American
in very literal sense-by virtue OF
his pocketbook. In Fee Moroccan
leather is cured. One of the most In
l teresting industrial sights of the city
is the followed out rocks, resembling
the cross section Of honeycomb, II
which leather is dipped in a solution
3 Of lime by natives who, strangely
1 enough, stand in the mixture up t.
E their waists without injury to theil
e skins.
r Travellers In French Morocco pa,
: special tribute to the efficiency o
: French administration there. In south
D ern Morocco lived Glacui who, next t.
0 Raisuli, was the most daring Of Mo
0 roccan bandits. He was made ad
: minlstrator of the region he formerl.
n had plundered; and, visitors say, Their
: Is not a kindlier, more courteous, AM
more agreeable gentleman in thos
i parts. Nor has there been any troubl
d with banditry since he became al
l. official.
Ii Country Has Four Capitals.
e Theoretically Morocco has four capl
It tals-Fez, Taflelt, Marakesh and Ra
o bat. But the chief French officials re
!, side at Rabat on the Atlantic coast
/ and like MacGregor's seat at the table
e that is the real head. The sultan stil
D. maintains his palace in the three othe
n cities and visits them from time t
n time.
p Perhaps the most interesting city |
% Morocco next to Fee, Is Marrakesl
T. the old southern capital. There th
lie country is drier and hotter and camel
y dfe the characteristic beasts of bu
ie den and draft as tiny donkeys are
d the north. Both the buildings an
walls Of Marrakesh are of red mu,
D. which gives the city an aspect
r striking contrast 70 the brilliant whit
is city of Fee. These mud walls are sc
IS years old, but due to the dryness of ii
re climate are well preserved.
o. Marrakesh is a contrast to Fee ais
5. in that 1t is roomy city. Its wal
Of were built to enclose a city Of mi
IN lion inhabitants, but have never she
lie tered more than a quarter of thi
is number. And today the city's popul
i'd ton is only about 100000 AS a r
Is suit there is much unused land with
II gnrdenR