Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . ith gold chains, seal rings, andscarf-pins ; they have one merit as regards their appear-ance—I know of but one—they do look clean. Theladies were taking their ease; the muffling black silkouter cloaks, which all Egyptian women of the upperclass wear when they leave the house, had been thrownaside; the white face veils had been loosened so thatthey dropped below the chin. It was the hareem of theMinister for Foreign Affairs ; their carriages were wait-ing below. The most modest of men—a missionary, forinstance, or an entomologist—would, I suppose, have putthem to fli
Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . ith gold chains, seal rings, andscarf-pins ; they have one merit as regards their appear-ance—I know of but one—they do look clean. Theladies were taking their ease; the muffling black silkouter cloaks, which all Egyptian women of the upperclass wear when they leave the house, had been thrownaside; the white face veils had been loosened so thatthey dropped below the chin. It was the hareem of theMinister for Foreign Affairs ; their carriages were wait-ing below. The most modest of men—a missionary, forinstance, or an entomologist—would, I suppose, have putthem to flight; but as the tourist season was over, andas it was luncheon-time for Europeans, no one appearedbut myself, and the ladies strayed hither and thither asthey chose, occasionally stopping to hear a few wordsof the explanations which the guide (a woman also)was vainly trying to give before each important one exception, these Cairo dames were, to say theleast, extremely plump; their bare hands were deeply. THE WOODEN MAN Gizeh Museum, near Cairo.—According to the chronological table of Mariette, this statue is over 6000 years old.—From a photograph by Brugsch Bey 177 dimpled, their cheeks round. They all had the samevery white complexion without rose tints; their feat-ures were fairly good, though rather thick ; the eyes ineach case were beautiful—large, dark, lustrous, withsweeping lashes. Their figures, under their loose gar-ments, looked like feather pillows. They were awk-ward in bearing and gait, but this might have beenowing to the fact that their small plump feet (in whiteopen-work cotton stockings) were squeezed into verytight French slippers with abnormally high heels, uponwhich it must have been difficult to balance so manydimples. The one exception to the rule of billowybeauty was a slender, even meagrely formed girl, whoin America would pass perhaps for seventeen; proba-bly she was three years younger. Her thin, dark, rest-less face, with its
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