White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-13

Squat houses line the narrow streets
From the mosque tower the muezzin
calls the faithful to prayer. Tur-
baned Arabs of the Benz Hassan tribe,
Berbers from the hills and negroes
file through the bazaars. Heavily
yelled women travel silently through
the crooked streets. The plaintive,
barbaric wailing, which the Moroccans
call music, may be heard at all times
during the day. Groups of the sick
and the deformed, clad in dirty white
rags, sit in the streets Of the bazaars
begging aims from the passers-by.
Native Rabat is Picturesque.
The souks or bazaars of Rabat are
as famous as their wares, red and
yellow leather boots, pottery, and the
rugs which the Rabati women weave
in their homes and color with vege-
table dyes. These rugs, when new,
are little too brilliant for Western
taste but they fade into a pale, har-
monious blending Of colors with wear.
There is slight demand for chairs
or knives and forks in the souks.
Chairs are used only by the stiff
legged Christian tourists who visit the
city and knives and forks are not
necessary to eat CONSCIOUS, the staple
Wand of the Moroccan meal CONSCIOUS
is made with flour and meat and
| vegetables, and tastes not unlike the
! American dish of dumplings cooked
with meat 1t is served in big pot
and everyone sticks in his hand and
brings forth his portion in three fin
gers. To use four fingers or two
| fingers is extremely bad manners.
Moroccan etiquette demands three.
Because of it's mild climate, Rabat
Is favorite residence of the present
Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed,
who has other palaces in Fee, Mekinez
and Marrakesh.
Marrakesh and Fee are the out
| standing inland cities. Marrakesh Is
| one of the busiest marts in French
| Morocco An almost constant stream
| of camel and donkey caravans passes
| through the city gates where traders
| meet each other and also the local
wool and leather merchants, tanners,
| silk weavers, armorers and manufac-
turers of agricultural implements.
| In the Marrakesh Bazaars.
! The bazaars in the narrow, dusty
streets of the city are thronged from
dawn to dusk. In one street deeply
sunburned Berber men in flowing,
white robes and turban-wound heads
stand in groups while others bfcker
with sullen, bewhiskered shopkeepers
over the price of inexpensive mer-
chandise. Silent, heavily-veiled Mos.
lem women peer into yarn and silk
shops where red, yellow, green and
blue strands form colorful displays.
Fierce looking tribesmen from the
nearby Atlas mountains with fire
arms protruding from their belts ap'
pear hypnotized by half-naked silk
spinners and dyers plying their trades
in congested stalls Frightened black
slave men, stopped under back-break.
ing loads, stink before the piercing
glances of their beturbaned masters
Robust slave girls, with cumbersome
| jars DdlduCcu Ou LiCiA AlpS, cautiously
come and go without jostling Other
pedestrians of high caste. vivacious
Berber women, with homemade blan
kets accost dusty camel men fresh
from the outlying desert regions.
Around the corner peoples of many
races watch metal workers hammer
copper, silver and steel into plate ant
receptacles of all kinds, between
shelves where finished articles Of
their labor glisten in the bright Afri
can sunlight.
The thronged streets lead the trav
eler to believe that all of Marrakesh's
houses have emptied their 100000 oc
cupants, as we'll as the city's visitors
into the bazaars at one time but near
Bly, the Jama-el-F ina, the Marrakest
public square, is also surging with
humanity, jostled by donkeys ant
awkward camels, whose loads over
hang their sides.
From the roof of one-story build
ing bordering the square, the traveller
sees a group Of men watching the per
Torrance of snake charmer who
leases a reptile until it bites his
tongue. which he cures by filling hi:
+, mouth with handful of earth. An
other group gasps as a smoke eater
chews handful of yellow straw ane
| emits blue smoke from his lips