Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . s of leather, and peddles it. Thisbread, which, when baked, is only thetenth part of an inch thick, is very pala-table when just from the oven, and evenforeigners come to prefer it to any other,for it is sweet and easily digested. But the growing heat of mid-day sug-gests that the hour for lunch and reposehas arrived. The noonday meal is light,composed of fruit, grapes, figs, or melons,with salads and bread. After it perhapsfollows a cup of tea and a kalian, andthen a nap, in which high and low par-ticipate. In the middle of t
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . s of leather, and peddles it. Thisbread, which, when baked, is only thetenth part of an inch thick, is very pala-table when just from the oven, and evenforeigners come to prefer it to any other,for it is sweet and easily digested. But the growing heat of mid-day sug-gests that the hour for lunch and reposehas arrived. The noonday meal is light,composed of fruit, grapes, figs, or melons,with salads and bread. After it perhapsfollows a cup of tea and a kalian, andthen a nap, in which high and low par-ticipate. In the middle of the day, dur-ing the w^arm season, the whole city, thevery streets and walls, seem asleep, gradu-ally waking again as the sun begins toapproach the west. After his siesta, theTelieranee says his prayers, or is supposedto say them: in spite of, or perhaps as aresult of, their intense external fanaticism,the modern Persians are but little addictedto praying; their religion is rather likea shibboleth, a mot dordre to swear by,than a code of guidance to shape life and. EXTERIOR OF COUNTRY CARAVANSARY. 222 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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